Archive for June, 2003

Hair Bear Bunch

Wednesday, June 11th, 2003

One of our devs was explaining something today about how our XML parser works when reading the very beginning of an XML text file. The xml declaration is always something like ““, and the XML 1.0 spec requires conforming documents to begin with the “

Hope Springs

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

This warms my heart:
“I’ve been the subject of not one, but two, fawning puff pieces published in[NYT]in the course of my young life. So I should join the suck-up parade too, right? Wrong. There are more important matters at stake - the future of Authentic Journalism and democracy in an era of Simulated News…”
Could American […]

XML Editors

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

I have been getting a ton of use recently from a new piece of code that one of our architects,Chris Lovett, wrote. If you are into System.Xml, you may have seen the XmlNodeWriter, SgmlReader, or XmlCsvReader that he built. I hope that his latest tool will make it onto gotdotnet soon as well.
I’m also using […]

Getting Personal

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

This is too bad. Lots of people seem to harbor deepresentment toward Dave Winer. Now,ifyou think Dave is a jerk (and I don’t care so please don’t comment), Ihave some advice:

Resentment isn’t productive.Itpollutes the consciousness and saps attention from your goals.Ifyou really don’t like someone, why give them that power over you? Of course, you’ll […]

Memories, Memories

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

AP says “Big Brother Wants to Watch You Digitally“. Basically, what they are describing is a fully multimedia personal weblog. People today already have blogs that track their GPS position, use emoticons to describe emotions, publicize their interpersonal relationships, and so on.
John Pike of Global Security.org, a defense analysis group, says “they have not identified […]