XML honcho Tim Bray says
blogging is good for your career.
I feel so validated!
Note: this probably won’t help you if your (prospective) employer
thinks XML is just an under-powered, over-hyped dilution of SGML (I
don’t include myself among that group).
Link via boingboing and Waxy.
I think this
proves that Mike Smit is Big Brother.
I do believe I heard him say that not voting was “doubleplusungood”.
Also: everywhere you look, he’s looking back, so…
Kudos for the online voting system, but I have to wonder about the
choice of domain name. Surely vote.dsu.ca would have been more
appropriate, and felt more official.
One can only assume [...]
GNOME 2.10 was released today. Yay us!
I know I push Ubuntu a lot (sorry
Phil,
but that gentoo fiasco
today was insane), but if push came to shove I’d be just as happy with
someone running vanilla
Debian,
NLD, or
Fedora. The GNOME desktop is
the real beauty of these systems, mainly due to its strong focus on
usability. Accessability, internationalization, and of [...]
The CEOS website is up and
running (mostly) now. CEOS being the Conference on Engaging in Open
Source, which will surely become Atlantic Canada’s most popular and
relevant tech conference. Tell all your friends!
As seen from the sponsors list, CEOS has some heavy hitters
involved, but in the spirit of giving props where props is due, I must
put out [...]
My, how the tables have turned. While Colin was setting his sights on gooey
development on Sunday, I was playing with web application development.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been meaning to learn RoR, so I started this past weekend.
I’m not going to comment on the poster child of Dal CS web
development, PHP, because I’m certainly not [...]
Like a lot of kids earning their nerd stripes back in the day, I
had played around with VMWare. Remember VMWare,
that program that
would let you run FreeBSD in Windows in Linux? Those were good times.
Then there was Plex86,
which was going to do the same thing, and
be Free as well, only it never really got off the [...]
Coupons arrived in the mail from McDonald’s this week, including
some discounts on big macs. It’s been several months and 20+ lbs since
I ate a big mac, but my lord, they’re so tasty. And those fries…
Cherie and I ate lunch there today; it was both delicious and
discusting. You can feel the grease on your lips [...]
Well, it’s not so much of a rant, really. More of a suggestion. I
did my taxes today on the parents’ winderz box, no problem. But the
thing doesn’t even use System.Windows.Forms or MFC or whatever they
call their widget toolkit; it seems like the quiken people are drawing
custom widgets on a canvas.
So, why is their software [...]
As Karen observed,
there are indeed no professors
blogging on the planet.
Maybe this is because they are
unsure of what to blog about. If so, here is a list of blog post
templates for professors to use:
Today, a paper I wrote, entitled $foo, was published in journal $bar
Star Wars is a good movie, because…
I released a new [...]
I had heard recently that Happy Birthday was copyrighted,
but until today I didn’t know what exactly this meant. Thank the maker
for Unhappy Birthday! Now
I know how rampant copyright infringement is, and what I can do to
help stop it.
Yes, it’s satire. Too bad all of it is true.