Posts from ‘October, 2002’

After waking up way too early for a Saturday morning, Jess and I headed out to the Chef's Catalog warehouse sale with my parents. We acquired lots of high quality kitchen goodies at very good prices. Jess convinced me that I didn't need to spend $70 on another knife. I don't really need the best [...]

Phil Ringnalda talks about the problem of HTML data being present in an RSS feed. He suggests modifying the way aggregators work and the way publishers publish in order to solve this problem. "The only workable solution [...] is for all RSS producers [...] to include a content:encoded element, and for all aggregators to use [...]

I can't believe I've been using VI/VIM for over 10 years and am just now finding out about folding.

Sometimes, I have trouble being human. It seems that those parts of me are the ones I dislike the most. And yet, of all the qualities contained within me, those are the ones I can't readily change. Being stagnant disgusts me.

A few days ago, some friends and I were talking about this device. Early in 2003, Pioneer will release the PDSP-1, a single source speaker system capable of producing discrete 5.1 channel surround sound audio. The device does not use psycho-acoustic techniques to simulate 5.1 channels. Instead, it actually bounces sound off of the ceiling [...]

In my quest to develop a good, web-based, RSS aggregator, I've learned one thing: RSS is fucked. Not RSS, itself, but RSS as it is used. There are just too many variations of everything to accommodate anything. For instance, one complaint I've always had about the available RSS readers, is that feeds were always jumbled [...]

I need a name for a piece of software, and I'm enlisting you — yes YOU — for help.
This software, to summarize quickly, will bring its users news. And I use the term "news" loosely. It will bring actually, real, news, yes. It will also bring stock quotes, weather information, software annoucements, and your friend's [...]

feedParser v0.3 has been released.

PHP's xml_parse_into_struct() function is severely broke, but I can't tell whose fault it is. It uses the expat libaray for parsing, which has become a sort of standard amongst UNIX based SAX parsers. The problem could be there. Or it could be in PHP's implementation of expat. Or it might not really be broken at [...]

My country loves me so much that they protect me from hackers and theives by forbidding me from obtaining important security information that may help me defend my electronic resources, and the electronic resources of my corporation from hackers, thieves, and other mischief makers. In order to assure my safety, my country will even arrest [...]