Posted by mop Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:44:00 GMT
According to AP, Hunter S. Thompson took his own life planned suicide last week. It’s sad, but not surprising for someone who seemed to always live life on his own terms.
Worthwhile reading...
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:25:00 GMT
Try it. An excellent interface (no clutter, great use of javascript, intuitive controls) and hight quality map data (at least for Vancouver and Toronto) suggests that this will be a winner. Business model is optional for now. ;-)
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:15:00 GMT
Suzan suggests that a market may exists for a web-based clipping service. Prior to the net explosion, clipping services monitored periodical content and ’clipped’ articles based on customer interests. Some of this function is now served by RSS news aggregators and search engines. But there is still chaff among the kernels of RSS and search results.
A number of fee-based web clipping services exists:
Metro Monitor watches TV, especially in smaller markets; price unknown.
NewsLibrary provides archives of newspaper content, charging a small fee per article downloaded.
Two thoughts... would a clipping service need to index content or utilize existing indexes (Google etc); is automated (adaptive?) filtering enough or is human intervention still of value?
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:53:00 GMT
The Ontario Human Rights Commission may be addressing an inconsistency in the the way it deals with the deaths of involuntary mental patients. It was front page news here in Toronto this week when the OHRC announced a tribunal to examine complaints by the families of two patients who died while involuntarily patients at Ontario mental facilities.
The head scratcher is thus: a public inquiry is required when a prisoner dies in custody, but not when an involuntary mental patient dies. Hmm.
Someday I’ll be able to recommend Suzan Fraser’s blog, or at least a web site, for follow-up.
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:52:00 GMT
I had the pleasure of witnessing a high-spirited basketball match between the McMaster Marauders and the Western Mustangs last weekend. These young women play hard and look good doing it!
Of course watching paint dry would be exciting in the presence of two beautiful girls. Thanks to Kate and Suzan. ;-)
What is a marauder? Or a mustang? Neither moniker seems very appropriate.
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:05:00 GMT
Shame on me for not adding Lawrence’s blog to my ’lines earlier. Lessig is the Stanford law professor who provides the academic backbone for Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation. Wired authored a fine bio in 2002.
Two nuggets gleaned from Lessig’s blog...
A reverent description of Gilberto Gil’s ’performance’ at the World Social Forum in Brazil.
Lawrence presents Wilco as the Future of Music
Posted by mop Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:43:00 GMT
X, as in eXtreme, not XML. XDoclet leverages metadata encoded withing Java classes as Javadocs, generating content (Java classes, JSPs, etc.) as part of a build process. The model is well suited to EJBs, Struts, as well as mixed content (generated plus hand crafted) files. XDoclet is also easy to apply in ad-hoc situations.
The premise is simple enough: put a custom javadoc tag in a Java source file then apply an XDoclet transform to produce a helper class, a JSP, a unit test, whatever. The transform can be as simple as an XDt template that references the custom javadoc tag, or a custom Java-based processor that applies complex logic to the tag-encoded metadata.
Posted by mop Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:22:00 GMT
Some tidbits from my Bloglines RSS subscriptions.
"Lint4j ("Lint for Java") is a static Java source code analyzer that detects locking and threading issues, performance and scalability problems, and checks complex contracts such as Java serialization by performing type, data flow, and lock graph analysis."
It’s Wiki++. Typical intranet functionality is available to Wiki users. As seen on John Udell’s blog. (I’ve added John’s blog to my roll.)
Blogs aren’t just for people, you’re processes should be blogging too. Oh yeah.
ISOs and pointers for those brave enough to run Dell servers.
