- Most of my major writing
tasks are done. I still have one work related
writing gig to do about XML at Microsoft which
probably could benefit from getting input from
regular developers/IT folk about what they'd like
to see in such an article.
- On a more fun note, I've
outlined a paper called What is Object
Oriented Programming? and have lined up a few
folks from school to
take a look at it. I'd also like to get some K5
people to review it once I actually start putting
pen to paper. I thought about emailing trhurler,
codemonkey_uk, ucblockhead, tmoertl, and jacob
but then realized I might miss some other people
who've provided good feedback in the past and
decided to just ask for reviewers in my diary. So
if you'd be interested in reviewing the first
draft of this paper post below with contact email
and I'll add you to my list of potential
reviewers. I plan to submit it as a K5 story when
done.
-
Tagata
Jinja is a Japanese fertility festival that
is chock full of sculptures of giant phalluses.
Self conscious doesn't even begin to describe how
I'd feel if I attended the festival in
person.
- In a 24 hour period
around Thanksgiving Day Slashdot editors posted
six duplicate stories. Even for them that
most be some sort of record. One of the replies
in that thread also talks about stories that end
up getting posted three times instead of the
usual two. I've seen this before as well.
Slashdot ran at least three versions of my
interview with Miguel (
1,
2,
3).
- I saw The Spy
Who Loved Me and The Man
With The Golden Gun over the holidays. I was
reminded as to why I disliked GoldenEye
so much. Golden Eye completely broke from what I
considered staples of James Bond cinematic
tradition. In the Roger Moore and Connery days
Bond used to average three chicks a movie and
would use every gadget Q gave him no matter how
ridiculous (In From
Russia With Love even a suitcase booby
trapped with talcum powder and 20 gold coins
ended up getting used). Contrasted with the
politically correct, chaste and product placement
filled Bond that was GoldenEye I decided to take
a hiatus from watching Bond. Without Bond laying
the mack down and using all sorts of outlandish
gadgets then its just another action movie with
bad puns. Have I missed anything in the
intervening movies?
- Browsing Gordon
Weakliem's blog I spied an
entry about comments on my recent XSD
article. Always being one to seek out
feedback I checked out the blog
post on codaland he referenced. Unfortunately
instead of useful critical feedback all I saw was
a flamebait ad hominem comment and a rant about
how XSD sucks. This was dissappointing given that
I would have loved to respond to critical
feedback about the article since everyone whose
given me feedback about it has either really
liked it or hasn't read it beyond the
introduction.
- Does anyone out there
have the September Issue of
Web Services Journal? Or are there any
subscribers to their online content? I answered
some questions they sent to me a while ago which
got turned into a Point/CounterPoint with someone
named Mark Herring. A quick Googling for "Mark
Herring" and XML comes up with
Mark Herring, Director of Marketing for Sun[tm]
ONE Studio. I'm very curious as to what
eventually got published.
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