Archive for January, 2003

Evening at Crossroads

Tuesday, January 28th, 2003

There were a lot of people at the Seattle bloggers meet tonight. I love the chaos of big gatherings with conversations flying in all directions. Thanks to Sam Ruby for pulling it together. I managed to get introduced to most of the people there, but according to Anita Rowland’s site, I missed a few. Just […]

Slammed!

Monday, January 27th, 2003

Well, I didn’t get slammed– I run SQL 2000 on my laptop (for my RDF Triples Database), but Ihad already installedSP3 (and I run a recent build of SQL 2003 on my server).
Many geeks like to point out “sysadmins who haven’t updated their patches for six months” as the cause of worm outbreaks like this. […]

CLR on Linux and FreeBSD

Sunday, January 26th, 2003

The Sys-Con site has an interesting post about the whole “Java open, .NET closed” meme. The Mono Project just won “Best Open Source Project” at Linux World Expo, an honor that is well-deserved IMO. In an industry where open-source projects have often become vehicles of politics, propaganda, and punditry; Mono team is all about making […]

I Hate Mozilla

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

Over the weekend, I spent a few hours re-writing my blog template so that it uses nothing but XML, XSLT, and CSS (with no tables). The idea is that I could completely separate presentation from content, and all presentation (CSS and XSLT) will be applied at the user’s browser. This way, each localweb browser will […]

Fixing My Calendar

Saturday, January 18th, 2003

The .NET Guy pointed out that my site is broken on non-IE browsers. Trying to fix it..