To speed things up on the experimental RSS-in-Mozilla-sidebar thingy, I’ve added in some cacheing (using a little MySQL db) to the simple XSL-Transform service that’s used to transform RSS to HTML on the fly, for inclusion into the sidebar. It makes it a lot faster, obviously, and takes a bit of strain off [...]
Back in the spring of 2000, I wrote MySidebar, a concoction of Mozilla sidebars, XUL and RSS. It allowed you to specify an RSS URL and would generate XUL from it and install it in Mozilla’s sidebar. (XUL involves RDF. The interconnectedness of all things, eh?)
Fozbaca recently pointed to something similar, which reminded me [...]
I recently bought a Hama multi-slot card reader, primarily for reading the Smart Media cards used in our camera. It came with software for Windows. I installed it on our Windows 98 machine, and plugged in the device, following the instructions to the letter. Ka-boom! Blue screen. After about an hour of trying and [...]
I read this a few years ago, and don’t think I appreciated some of the finer points (how many books don’t deserve a re-reading?).
You can find out about the book at Amazon so I won’t bother with the plot. It’s a wonderful study in far future tech - the ships, minds, and drones [...]
…when it takes you over two weeks to recover from OSCON. What with the travel (ok, including a connectionless week in Manchester visiting relatives), the email backlog, and the catch-up at work, not to mention the overwhelming saturation of information, ideas, inspiration, and other things beginning with ‘i’ that came from the great time [...]