Soft on the outside, hard on the inside ...

On the relative positioning of in your architectures of things like Java, XSLT, Word Processors and such like : Soft on the outside, hard on the inside ...

Operating Systems on the Web

"Either the problem-specific application containers that are popping up on the Web are mere 'applications' or maybe, just maybe, they are the beginning of a whole new type of general purpose 'application server'. I don't think it is stretching language at all to call these things emerging operating systems." -- Operating Systems on the Web

Master Foo On Structured Documents

"Embrace the controlled vocabulary. Do not fight it. It is stronger than you are and it has Murphy's Law on its side."
-- Master Foo On Structured Documents

ITWorld

Every week now since April, 2001 I have been writing an article for ITWorld. For a couple of years they where about XML, then I switched over to a wider e-Business banner and, well, wrote about whatever took hold of me at the time.

Generally, when a new article is published on the ITWorld site, I blog it here. Some folks get an e-mail feed directly from the ITWorld site.

Anyway, I'm finishing up the E-Business articles for a while at the end of this month. I'm going to write stuff from a different angle for the next while on the same weekly schedule with ITWorld. I'll blog it here as before.

The plan is that some time next year, I'll switch again to something that ITWorld has cooking. More news on that later.

Leaving it to your imagination

"I find myself strangely thankful for the limitations in our technologies. " -- Leaving it to your imagination

Leveraging hardware errors

Sometimes, interesting things happen as hardware fails : Mars robot unearths microbe clue.

Aside: what a mind-blowing technical accomplishment the rovers have been! Initial mission duration estimate: 90 days. Days at last count : 1400 and there is life in the old birds yet. Amazing.

Words fail me

Words that lack sufficience.

Sentences that lack all adequacy.

Here: http://thekingdomkids.org/.

And here : Uncle Uche.

Saying nothing (outside of this) seems like the least inadequate thing to say.