Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07mar2007
Google Spreadsheets Go Camping, “I’m starting to use Google Spreadsheets more and more and have very little to complain about. However, the interface leaves much to be desired. My chief problem is the reliance on opening up multiple tabs (windows for non firefoxers) for each spreadsheet.”
Kaivo supports an architecture for information systems in which the data is always kept in a single data model which is RDF.
Where have all the good databases gone, Adam Bosworth made a list of three reqirements in late 2004, and not a single one has been solved so far. Major suckage.
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go
To the valley below.
— Bob Dylan, One More Cup Of Coffee
LMX is a reverse XML parser. Whereas most XML parsers parse the XML data from the start to the end, LMX parses it from the end to the start. Pretty sick.
Blank Slate, John Gruber on how to design a blog: “Default templates are terrific for people who can’t or don’t want to design their own – but they’re terrible starting points for anyone attempting to establish their own unique brand. If you start with nothing, you’re forced to think about everything.”
GCX is an efficient open source in-memory XQuery engine implemented in C++. The philosophy of the GCX engine is to minimize the amount of data that is kept in main-memory at runtime.
Using mutt on OS X, I use Gnus, but it’s a good howto, and the MTA stuff is client independent.
Faster Adaptive Set Intersections for Text Searching, by Jérémy Barbay, Alejandro López-Ortiz, and Tyler Lu. Everyone doing database stuff please read this.
Meh: the word that’s sweeping the internet, Michael Hann. I use that in my daily life, too…
The things my friend did later on
Were not exactly pretty
He trashed my great grandparent’s house,
Then he trashed New York City
— Dan Bern, The Beagle Song
u8u16, a high-speed UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion software based on the parallel bit stream technology. Well, nice, but who converts so much data this matters?
SYWTWAB 2: The Hero’s Journey, “[A] good technical book is also a hero’s journey.”
Towers of Silence, mystic.
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