Jabber Server Farming How-To:

"This document was started on June 06, 2002 by Ryan Eatmon to explain how to set up a Jabber Server Farm using the Jabber.org Jabber Server (http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org).

This document is broken into two main sections. What is, and what will be. As of the writing of this document the Jabber Server does not have all of the pieces that are required to do full farming. There are steps that can be taken to get partial farming, and those will be covered. There are also steps that we are going to take, and those are covered to so that others can contribute and comment. "

i don't want to turn this into "all-rss-autodiscovery-all-the-time" , but brent highlights the rss invisibility thing quiet nicely:

"Here's how things work for me now. When I'm at a site I want to subscribe to, I copy-and-paste its home page URL into NetNewsWire's subscription dialog. The app then searches for the RSS feed for that site. If it finds it, great. If it doesn't find it then I delete the failed subscription--even if the site actually does have a hidden-away RSS feed somewhere. I don't go looking for it manually: it's too much trouble. And thus I don't read that site.

But of course even the above scenario is too many steps: ideally, when I'm at a site I want to subscribe to, I should be able to choose a menu command to subscribe to that site. (Or maybe it's a bookmarklet, or a contextual menu command--some Subscribe to Site command that's always in the same easily-accessible place.)"

i've rambled on about this and similar things before, in ways that are confusing enough to force innocent bystanders to email me asking just what the bujeesus i'm talking about [ morbus you know who you are ]. see, i not only want rss to be invisible, but i want by "blogroll" to be invisible too. and i want them all to be linked by my bookmarking behavior.

i see a site i like - i bookmark it. that bookmarking process should form the foundation for rss subscription and blogroll formation. and no, i don't have it all figured out, but someday i'm going to move past just rambling on with incoherent, staccato statements into crisp, coherent requirements.

i don't want to turn this into "all-rss-autodiscovery-all-the-time" , but brent highlights the rss invisibility thing quiet nicely:

"Here's how things work for me now. When I'm at a site I want to subscribe to, I copy-and-paste its home page URL into NetNewsWire's subscription dialog. The app then searches for the RSS feed for that site. If it finds it, great. If it doesn't find it then I delete the failed subscription--even if the site actually does have a hidden-away RSS feed somewhere. I don't go looking for it manually: it's too much trouble. And thus I don't read that site.

But of course even the above scenario is too many steps: ideally, when I'm at a site I want to subscribe to, I should be able to choose a menu command to subscribe to that site. (Or maybe it's a bookmarklet, or a contextual menu command--some Subscribe to Site command that's always in the same easily-accessible place.)"

i've rambled on about this and similar things before, in ways that are confusing enough to force innocent bystanders to email me asking just what the bujeesus i'm talking about [ morbus, you know who you are ]. see, i not only want rss to be invisible, but i want by "blogroll" to be invisible too. and i want them all to be linked by my bookmarking behavior.

i see a site i like - i bookmark it. that bookmarking process should form the foundation for rss subscription and blogroll formation. and no, i don't have it all figured out, but someday i'm going to move past just rambling on with incoherent, staccato statements into crisp, coherent requirements.

ugh. the title says it all. " How to Go From Kernel Panic to Clean Install in 14 Long Hours".

ever wondered how many access points you'd find if you flew a beechcraft bonanza airplane over the seattle area while stumbling with an ipaq? well, now you know.

The Semantic Web: 1-2-3:

"This resource is also known as Stupid Berry Pickers Make Idiot Jam and that fact should add suitable weight to the following declaration: I'm new to the Semantic Web. I cobbled this fair piece together in an attempt to collect my thoughts, answered questions, path-of-learning, and requisite bookmarks so that other XML hackers may follow in my footsteps."

"This document is not intended to teach you RDF via my own words, but rather to hand-hold you through the "good" parts of the same journey I took. If it looks like a big link-list with menial comments from the peanut gallery, then you're not far off the mark of my intent. "

well, it's way passed due, but all of the vast wasteland now supports rss autodiscovery . if that doesn't mean anything to you then fughetaboutit, otherwise read on for the gory details.

i was rereminded that i wanted to support autodiscovery after reading mark pilgrim's excellent ultra liberal rss locator :

"One of my biggest pet peeves about the current generation of news aggregators is that they don't work very hard at finding RSS feeds. The other side of this coin is their stubborn insistence on making RSS visible. RSS should be completely invisible."

oh, how i long for the day when we can be rid of all those silly orange xml icons cluttering up valuable real estate and confusing my grandma.

then, with impeccable timing, brent simmons throws in support for rss invisibility in the latest beta of netnewswire , so i download it and gave it a shot for the various pages on my site and found out that it's not quiet as liberal in its design as mark's ultra liberal rss locator . hi. ho. so i decided to do the right thing finally and support not-so-liberal rss location.

although segway news beat 'em by a week, a few major publications are reporting the rumour that segway isn't ginger:

"THE CLAIM REVOLVES around inconsistencies between the description of Ginger contained in publicity for a book written by journalist Steve Kemper and the actual scooter-like invention. There are also some alleged patent irregularities."

i'm still voting for the hovercraft theory, just because it makes like a little more tolerable.

coincindence or not? aol has a big case of unhappy customers:

""Scores this low are rarely sustainable in competitive markets," University of Michigan professor Claes Fornell said in the report, regarding AOL. "Either there is improvement or the company is forced to leave the market--unless, of course, it has significant monopoly power.""

and earthlink is getting all customer-focused by allowing you, the unwashed user, to block popups:

""The pop-up blocker is the most exciting feature," said Jim Anderson, vice president of product development. "About 4.1 billion pop-up ads are served on the Internet, and we have had consumers tell us that is the most annoying experience on the Internet.""

of course, aol subsidiary, netscape, should be beaten with a cluestick for killing this very feature in the netscape 7.0 release:

"Although pop-up window/ad blocking has been a part of Mozilla for quite some time now, Netscape 7.0, which is based on Mozilla, will not have the pop-up blocking features of Mozilla when it is launched. A previous pre-release version of Netscape 7.0 also did not contain pop-up blocking.

An analyst from Jupiter Media stated, "Netscape is a commercial offering; it's not in its interest to offer a browser that could kill pop-up ads.""

if a former high-level rebublican advisor warns of armageddon if the u.s. goes to war with iraq and the asia times claims that the u.s. is already at war , then does that mean i should spend a little more time keeping a lookout for a few horseman meandering through the neighborhood?

i think the public comments from scowcroft about armageddon have more to do with party member positioning that only one or two mere mortals can claim to fully understand. but hey, it's always fun to watch either party air their dirty laundry in public and try to be polite about it:

"I am aware that some very intelligent people are expressing their opinions about Saddam Hussein and Iraq," Bush told reporters outside a community center in Crawford, near his 1,600-acre Texas ranch. "I listen very carefully to what they have to say."

hmmm. what kind of wierd market force is at work here?

why on earth does it cost $25 grand for cheap trick while blackalicous goes for a paltry $7 grand?

ever seen a malamute with anal sac problems? well, c'mon over, 'cause mauja seems to have developed a nasty case of impacted anal sacs.

lovely.