transformers: using xslt to transform xml:
posted by e3
7:53:00 PM
"You know that XML lets you invent your own tags, and that it lets you impose some structure on your data. Beyond that, though, your knowledge of XML is somewhat vague. Improvising hastily, you reply “The data is nicely structured, and the tags are meaningful. The indentation makes it easy to read, too.”"
i hope that truer words have never been written:
posted by e3
7:37:24 PM
"All those restless hackers, busy twisting the English language up and down with their obscure puns, busy donating their energy to public projects and passions -- they're still out there, following their coding stars. Their curiosity helped build the Internet, helped make code like Linux, BSD and Perl flourish to the point that the commercial world had to take notice.
But now that the commercial world is no longer quite as obsessed, that doesn't mean they've gone away. They've just turned their energies toward even cooler stuff..."
aha! i knew it! all i had to do was think shiny, happy thoughts.
despite horror stories to the contrary covad arrived today. they had the dsl line operational in 5 minutes. to be honest the installer seemed surprised himself. he didn't know i was thinking shiny, happy thoughts all week.
always there and always on. i may never leave home.
posted by e3
7:41:43 PM
despite horror stories to the contrary covad arrived today. they had the dsl line operational in 5 minutes. to be honest the installer seemed surprised himself. he didn't know i was thinking shiny, happy thoughts all week.
always there and always on. i may never leave home.
i couldn't help myself. i gave bryan a dime . maybe you should too. although the doc doesn't say that he actually gave, but i guess it doesn't matter. a dime here, a dime there - and pretty soon you're talking real quarters.
posted by e3
10:46:09 PM
i can honestly say that it never occured to me to get an issn for a weblog. don't ask why. just back away slowly.
posted by e3
12:18:38 AM
i don't know cam but i visit his site often and it really seems like he's picking up the pace on linking to anti-dsl articles - complete with titles like "dsl in distress" and "dsl utopia? it feels more like dsl hell."
why does this bother me? because i'm scheduled to have covad come over on friday. that's right boys and girls, if the planets align properly, i will gladly partake of the broadband pipe once again. it's been a long wait after being cast out of paradise when i moved out of the reaches of att.
i'm giddy and i hope that if i think good, happy thoughts then the bad things just won't happen. in with the good air. out with the bad.
covad is coming.
posted by e3
6:50:07 PM
why does this bother me? because i'm scheduled to have covad come over on friday. that's right boys and girls, if the planets align properly, i will gladly partake of the broadband pipe once again. it's been a long wait after being cast out of paradise when i moved out of the reaches of att.
i'm giddy and i hope that if i think good, happy thoughts then the bad things just won't happen. in with the good air. out with the bad.
covad is coming.
in today's davenet their's a link to an article that highlights a point that is so obvious that it becomes easy to miss - we can't count votes precisely. we can't now and we probably won't anytime in the future:
"Because ballots can be bought, stolen, miscounted, lost, thrown out or sent to Denmark, nobody knows with any precision how many votes go uncounted in American elections. For weeks, Florida has riveted the nation with a mind-numbing array of failures: misleading ballots, contradictory counting standards, discarded votes--19,000 in one county alone. But an examination by The Times in a dozen states from Washington to Texas to New York shows that Florida is not the exception. It is the rule."coincidently the edge has a discourse on democracy that makes the same point - visually.
it may be one for the record books. i live in woodstock, illinois, which is "just outside" of chicago in the sense that everything is "just outside" of chicago. at least as far as chicagoans are concerned. in anycase, we've been getting some weather [as they used to say in maine where i grew up] and it vaguely reminds me of the "noreastahs" that would blow "downeast" maine. nasty, but fun. my ever gracious employer even ordered us to leave today. will wonders ever cease? for the record:
posted by e3
8:36:13 PM
nowyup. that's right. it calls for temps to get down to -40 overnight. i hope our 50 year-old furnace doesn't decide to go on the fritz.
"Blizzard Warning in effect... at 635 pm...radar indicated a band of moderate to heavy snow stretching from Morris and Joliet...northeast through the downtown and the south side of the city of Chicago. Thunder snow was even reported in downtown Chicago at 630 pm. This heavy snow will continue to move across the southern sections of Chicago through 730 pm...and will affect lake and Porter counties in northwest Indiana through 9 pm. An additional 2 to 4 inches of accumulation is possible in these areas as this band passes through. Northeast winds gusting at 20 to 30 mph will cause significant blowing and drifting of snow...making travel treacherous across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana tonight."
tonight
"Windy and very cold with snow and blowing snow creating local blizzard conditions. Total storm accumulations 9 to 13 inches. Low 5 to 10 above. North winds 25 to 40 mph becoming northwest. Wind chills occasionally dropping to near 40 below.
under construction:
posted by e3
11:59:39 AM
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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