Took comments out because the

Took comments out because the implementation was very bulky and made the pages much more difficult to render. I will put them back in when the new threaded discussion code and interface are complete.

Note to self - Make

Note to self - Make tool that crawls blogs looking for longer entries with fewer links and vice versa. Then build histograms of non-common words in those entries. Maybe you can find some patterns.

Holy complexity theory Batman I

Holy complexity theory Batman

I was just talking about my fascination with the desert with Dave last night. I was trying, poorly, to explain that I liked how the desert reduced all the clutter. I sometimes feel that the universe conceals one great truth that explains how everything interconnects and grows. If one could find those spots in the universe where the curtain that conceals the great truth had been worn down you might peek through. I feel as though those threadbare spots are places where everything has been reduced to some sort of primal elements. I think the desert is an example of one of those threadbare spots.

The sequel to the

Scot Hacker formely the foremost

Scot Hacker formely the foremost BeOS evangelist has chronicled his switch to Mac OS X from BeOS. I felt myself nodding in agreement and saying “Yes that’s exactly right” enough to draw the attention of nearby cube mates. In my pre-OS X days I didn’t really attack Macs but I didn’t like them. Apple got something right with OS X though, and it’s not just that Jordan Hubbard works for Apple now. High profile Be engineers like Maarten Hekkelman have also gone to work for Apple.

I read an article about

I read an article about google’s new search capabilities and how it turns up private information on people now. I always find such articles laughable but I decided to vanity search on my name at google and OMG, I wish I had read this back in 1996.

FROM: Jordan K. Hubbard
DATE: 05/25/1996 01:30:27
SUBJECT:  How to write "tutorial" docs for FreeBSD. Maybe I`m just easily impressed, but I`ve found:

	http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/mh/mh.html

By Matt Midboe to be an excellently written tutorial on using MH.
It balances descriptive text with real-world examples, all organized
into a very approachable framework.

This isn`t just to say kudos to Matt Midboe, this is also to point
out his tutorial as an example of how I think a lot of our other docs
_should_ look like, rather than do.. :-)

					Jordan

Jordan Hubbard is one of the people I look up to. Whenever anyone says anything nice about some piece of code I’ve written I always think about how much better it would be if Jordan Hubbard had worked on it. He is a force of nature in the way other programming gods like Richard Stallman or Jamie Zawinski are. I don’t mean that all they do is write great code, it’s more than that. What sets them apart is that they see the world slightly skewed and have new and novel approaches to solving problems.

Unlocking XML Database problems A

Unlocking XML Database problems

A while back I was lamenting the problems of locking parts of an xml file. As I didn’t have 500 euro to spend on a cool XML database like X-Hive or Tamino that handle locking I decided to rethink things. I decided to break my single XML document with 78 link entries into 78 separate XML files. This gave me the granularity to operate on a single link that I needed.

The Progressive has an interesting

The Progressive has an interesting article on The New McCarthyism. Mainly the article catalogs all the naughty things the government is doing which appear to suspend the Constitution (mainly First Amendment rights). The one that surprised me is that a new rule allows the government to seize your book purchasing records. The rule removes all legal recourse for the bookstore, and a gag order is in place that prohibits them discussing the government actions with anyone. The article also make the point the word “terrorism” seems to hold the same power that the word “communism” held in the fifties. Some powerful meme mojo at work here.

On the weblog-devel Bill and

When I posed the question to Designer Andy he lamented that he had to run to work, but offered up this idea.```

Proposal… If there was a way to add context, like a matrix of two large concepts(A & B), ea broken into sub-categories, w/ the checkboxes at the intersection of the sub-categories….

A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 B

1 x x x x x

2 x x x x x

3 x x x x x

4 x x x x x

5 x x x x x

Reunions are always a touching

Reunions are always a touching moment, and when one isn’t caught up in the emotion of the moment they provide some introspection. Picture soldiers returning from war to their sweethearts and wives, dogs meeting their owners after a week of boarding, or long lost cousins reuniting on Oprah. Yesterday I couldn’t help but get caught up in the moment as my clothes from storage and my traveling clothes were brought together for the first time in almost a year.