Clowns In My Coffee

UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab encodes a song by some music guy in the Text Encoding Initiative XML format. There is, of course, a video.
What I want to know is, does this mean XML is cool or hopelessly passé?  Discuss.

So, there’s this small office in downtown Chapel Hill that used to have a paper “Google” banner in the window.  Today, on a trip past the Cosmic Cantina, I noticed that the window now has a more permanent logo for Android. I’ll admit that the basic idea behind Android – a generally open cellphone platform [...]

Based on an enormous amount of work by contributors to Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders, combined with healthy sourcing of the US copyright office’s records, Google has compiled a a list of works originally copyrighted between 1923 and 1963 which have been renewed at some point, the upshot being that if a given work [...]

I’ve been using jQuery a bit here and there to add some (I hope) usability enhancements and for light AJAJ work. Today I encountered a situation where I thought adding the “shift-select” feature on a longish list of checkboxes would be a good thing. This sort of feature pops up in webmail interfaces, [...]

Not that I want to generate the impression here that all I do is buy electronic gadgets and software, but I just got an 8GB Cowon D2 [pronounced "coe-on", btw], which costs about the same as an 8GB version of a somewhat more popular digital music player, except that it has a touch [...]

Shh, don’t tell the nephew, but he’s getting an XO laptop. It’s here, but I haven’t taken it out yet — I am personfully resisting the temptation until I have a good excuse in a few days.

If you haven’t already plumped for one, there’s still 12 days left!
Just sayin’ …

Now that the day job is looking like it’s going to be more and more SOA oriented, in the WS-* sense, my interest in less complex things that can play in that space is getting piqued. It’s been clear for a while that XMPP is going to be one of those things — there [...]

Just a little bit; I tried out the prerelease of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0, and I liked it enough after some rough handling in casual use to actually pony up for a license now that it’s officially released. Like Netbeans, a default install does a whole lot more things I’d like an IDE to do [...]

You decide. Last week, for reasons related specifically to xorg driver issues (read: I couldn’t get it to drive my 1680×1050 panel), I went out and replaced the latest in a long line of ATI-based video cards with an NVidia-based card. Then, I find out that AMD/ATI are shipping a reworked X [...]

I’ve been brewing a post about the eternal need for discipline by developers, and then Jeff Atwood posts Discipline Makes Strong Developers. Mine was going to be really good, too, full of all sorts of insights, phrased in a manner an effete critic might have labeled “delectable” or, not to puff myself up too [...]