The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "cornwall overhead". I see a yellow ceiling, covered with little bumps. Butter is dripping from it, and it smells delicious! I quit daydreaming and look back into the crystal ball. I see something decidedly not delicious. It looks like a giant slug, and it's eating all...
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After posting yesterday, I did a little more research into why some characters cause XML errors, and learned that if you go by the book, things work as expected, contrary to what real world experience would lead you to believe. It turns out that the hyphen character I was talking about yesterday causes errors because...
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I spent a little time today rereading some of the pages on the Atom wiki and elsewhere in an attempt to understand some issues that aren't spelled out clearly in the specification. I think maybe I understand now. Maybe. I guess I'll start this post with my conclusion: Atom needs a more complete spec, all...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "pedicab gout". Ugh! I click "search again". It shows me "Lusaka acquisition". Sounds a little more pleasant. I see an African city...ah, Lusaka is a city. I see money money money! I'm sure glad I clicked "search again"! The future becomes clear...in a round about way....
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Yesterday, I brought up the question of how to go from talking about to marketing technologies like RSS and Atom to various kinds of people. It's easy enough to talk to a techie about it, but how do you convince your grandma that she should give a hoot about some newfangled computer whizbang thingy that...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "infernal geologist". I see nothing. It shows me two more: "enormous Calvin". I see a Christian church, a political leader, and something difficult to make out. The lines become more distinct. It's a comic strip character. The future becomes clear.

A contest will be held to...
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A number of services are available these days which offer what they call throwaway email addresses. These are addresses that you use when you don't want to reveal your regular email address. Once they've served their purpose, you stop using them, so it doesn't matter if they get added a spammer's mail list.

An example...
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I read an interesting book last week called The Tipping Point. It's all about the little factors that cause trends to explode. It got me thinking about the growth of RSS and other data bite formats. By now, we're definitely past the Innovator stage, where RSS is only used by people on the bleeding edge....
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "giant sponge". I see radio waves (they're generally much thicker and more frizzy around the edges than I had imagined). I see children. I see money! The future becomes clear.

Inspired by current events and a number of radio and television programs, the FCC will unveil...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "I'm unified". I see a wedding ceremony. I see the groom, but where is the bride? There is none. The future becomes clear.

Spurred on by the gay marriages performed recently in San Francisco, the City's schizophrenic population will demand the right to marriages between their...
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