Lonely Lion

XML.com: Basic Training [Mar. 27, 2002] ”Is it even possible to explain XML in simple English—especially in the limited space of an XML Q&A column? Let’s give it a try….”

I know you’ve wanted an article like this for a while.  O’Reillynet rules.  I’ve learned so much from this site, and their books.  Fantastic.

BLOGGER – How to troubleshoot Blogger errors

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BLOGGER – How to troubleshoot Blogger errors Recently, the code that runs Blogger has gone through a complete overhaul. For most folks, it was painless and improved their experience. For others, it has presented some problems. The new error messages aren’t the most descriptive, and will most likely change in the future, but for now, here’s a list of common errors, what they mean, and how to solve them.

Test for Dennis

Mercury News | 03/23/2002 | Dan Gillmor: Bleak future looms if you don’t take a stand I’m not a thief. I’m a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won’t be your customer.

Tough guy.  Every cause needs an activist, but I can’t help but giggle at the amount of energy this guy puts into his “protests”.  Read this, it’s good to know, good to be aware, good to have choices.  However, if I’m going to take a stand to prevent a bleak future, we might be better served helping feed babies.

Babies are better than computers.

PEAR :: Manual: PEAR DB: a unified API for accessing SQL-databases: “This chapter describes how to use the PEAR database abstraction layer. “

So…PHP, PEAR, etc.  What’s that McAvoy kid up to now?  Last night I started exploring the very cool world of PEAR.  PEAR is to PHP as CPAN is to Perl.  While CPAN is old and stock full of good stuff, PEAR is new, and stock full of good stuff.  PEAR::DB acts just like Perl:DBI.

So, for your reading pleasure, I present to you, the PEAR DB Manual.  Enjoy.

Salon.com Technology | Playboy seeks “Women of Enron”: “Playboy is hoping to entice some of the women who lost their shirts in the Enron scandal to reveal a little bit more. The magazine is putting together a “Women of Enron” pictorial and is inviting employees past and present to send snapshots of themselves in bikinis if they wish to pose. “

I have no comment.

I really need to get mcavoyrobot going again.  I’m just damn lazy I guess.

Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux. Howard Wen takes a look at Sony’s upcoming Linux distribution kit for the PlayStation 2. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Excellent.

Ruby: Productive Programming Language. A brief overview of popular languages and how Ruby matches up. [Linux Journal]

Another one of those things that I can classify as “I’d like to learn it, but what for?”

CNN.com – Sony robot sings, dances and isn’t cheap – March 19, 2002 The robot also can be programmed to recognize 10 people through their faces, stored as digital images shot with its camera, and their voices, picked up through seven microphones. It also will remember their names.

Robots!

RFC: MetaWeblog API: “. This API views a post as a package of metadata with some well-known names and room to grow on an organized or an ad hoc basis. In my experience those are the kinds of APIs that have legs. They go somewhere.“

This sounds good.  I’d like to implement it in MT 2.0 when it comes out.