Two quick links before running off home:
* LA Times speculation about Five New techologies that may help Silicon Valley rise again.
* “Tim Bray: XML Is Too Hard For Programmers”:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
Jonathan Hedley offers some nice CGI thingies and aggregators, like “alterslash”:http://alterslash.org/ (summarizes “slasdot.org”:http://slashdot.org) and “WorldBuddy”:http://worldbuddy.com, which shows you the time (and sometimes the weather too) in lots of places around in the world.
Yesterday I demonstrated my vast powers of miscommunication to someone over ICQ (as I regularly do, being a great miscommunicator), and wondered if I could possibly sprinkle more smilies than usual on top of each message.
Not so, says “Anil Dash”:http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/005433.php, upon being taken to task for saracasm. One should fight back against the forces that enforce online understanding at the price of sacrificing our right to cynicism. He promotes the anti-smiley “:-)” , to undermine the whole purpose of defusing ambiguity.
The Japan Times Online – Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo.
bq. Shun claims to have uncovered a secret code that links a complex network of tunnels unknown to the general public. “Every city with a historic subterranean transport system has secrets,” he says. “In London, for example, some lines are near the surface and others very deep, for no obvious reason.”
ReadingEd.com [v2] has some really cool use of RSS, using his own RSS parser written in PHP, Onyx.
I’m looking for ways to extend Feed my quick RSS hack thingie, which uses this I notice there’s also an RSS parser in Pear, the PHP library.