Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

15nov2005

elliottsmith.com features a cover of Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece”.

Extensible Records With Scoped Labels by Daan Leijen. That could be just what I’ve been looking for…

Late to the party, David N. Welton wonders about Rails and Java. “[S]ome aspects of [Java] are so big and unweildy that only companies that can muster the manpower to throw at it are going to do well with it, meaning that smaller shops would either have to not compete in that market, or compete poorly.”

scent by ochazuke

Word Processing Blues by Tim Bray. TeX and HTML are all I need, personally.

RedHanded now features tumblelogs in the Links sidebar.

Well I guess there’s less reason than you think
For mixing pills, depression, and drink
If death and greatness has no link
Well too bad—
Too bad about Elliot Smith
— Dan Bern, Elliott Smith

The lost art of text editing, I think Paolo Amoroso is very right.

I LOVE Open Source—Really!, Shai Agassi of SAP says.

Keynote: From Atom to OWLs, and Oracle, a report of XML 2005 by Kurt Cagle.

Bad book covers, Dan Zambonini found some really bad. Ugh.

Apps that talk back, Giles Turnbull explains. I don’t think this is that useful.

Google Floats Online Book ‘Rental’ Plan by Sid Steward. I prefer the Safari approach…

UNIX and Editors, Hynek’s scribbles.

I’m going out sleepwalking
where mute memories start talking
the boss that couldn’t help but hurt you
and the pretty thing he made desert you
— Elliott Smith, 2:45 AM

Burda looks beyond printing, Thomas Crampton says. Rather surprising, to me.

Homosexuality, a definition. “Homosexual is a term originating from the greek words Homos, meaning “same”, and sexual, meaning “sexual.” It is used to describe couples who have sex in the same manner each night. This is different from heterosexuals who have sex in varying positions.”

FlightAware, The Future Of Flight Tracking Has Arrived.

march by moln

Success on IHT Column pitch! (and next issues), Thomas Crampton says. Gratulations.

New Powerbook of John Wiseman, everyone’s got one now! (Except me, of course.)

Sparrow knocks over 23,000 dominoes before being shot, good job (of the sparrow).

Erlang/OTP User Conference 2005, with slides.