This is hilarious. Doom as a tool for system administration. I'm not sure sysadmins need more adrenalin running through their veins. [via matt]
Oct 20th, 1999, 10:27 am

Not on that list is a book I'm reading called Man and Crisis by Jose Ortega y Gasset. It's good. Or is it just in agreement with the context of our current constructed sense of history? <g>
Oct 20th, 1999, 9:55 am

Last night I stayed up past my bedtime to put together an xml version of my reading list. I looked for a standard book definition format, but couldn't find one, so I made up my own.

Next time I'm motivated to work on this site, I'm going to write an ASP script to transform the XML to HTML on the server-side. Then I'm going to write a few different XSL stylesheets to transform it as well. Fun stuff. Good practice.

Oct 20th, 1999, 9:48 am

I have an idea. all capital letters, PB = evil drug. :( all lowercase letters, pb = happy blogger. :)
Oct 19th, 1999, 9:03 pm

oh no: "Defense Department officials presented the 385-page review of scientific literature on the drug pyriostigmine bromide, or PB, at a news conference today."

My poor, little, innocent nickname is about to be associated with something very evil.

Oct 19th, 1999, 8:18 pm

epinions is now syndicating review headlines (along with a short excerpt) in rss. cool.
Oct 19th, 1999, 5:14 pm

Today I'm listening to Ocean Colour Scene's moseley shoals. It rocks and then some.
Oct 19th, 1999, 12:22 pm

"As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Oct 19th, 1999, 10:25 am

For epinions to really be successful, I think they'll need to let people publish their reviews on their own sites with their own design. Perhaps each review would also need to be published in an XML format they designate; so all reviews can include common elements.

With this system, users would have the ability to choose between the epinions business-like, formal interface...or the hundreds of interesting interfaces from hundreds of interesting people.

Oct 18th, 1999, 4:41 pm

Saturday, as I drove to San Francisco, I noticed that the sky was filled with smoke. I walked out of my house yesterday and found my car coated with gray ash.
Oct 18th, 1999, 2:14 pm

I predict that syndication and content XMLization will reduce the power of centralized content sources like epinions. And it won't be long.
Oct 18th, 1999, 8:55 am

I agree. I think epinions is a vacuum sucking content that would otherwise be on people's personal sites to make money. The reviews have a very corporate personality beyond the words. Design is important.

Taken to the extreme, everyone's content could look exactly the same with micropayments taking precedence over creativity/personality.

Oct 18th, 1999, 8:48 am
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