Interview with Lilah

Via WHEDONesque, an interview with Stephanie Romanov, who plays Lilah on Angel. The first page was funny, and I can't read the second page because I don't want it to spoil anything.

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Monastic XML

Via More Like This, Monastic XML.org.

MonasticXML.org is a look at XML from a different angle, focusing on what markup is best at rather than what markup can do to solve a particular problem or set of problems. While XML is powerful, developers seem insistent on using XML in ways which seem convenient for a moment but which cause much greater trouble down the line to both their projects and to markup itself.

Looking at XML from the perspective of "what markup is good at" may seem dull, at least to those who thrive on extending technologies in creative ways. MonasticXML.org presents a deeply conservative view of markup in general and XML in particular, though it often turns out that discipline brings its own rewards. Paying attention to the details of how a technology works may not be as interesting as building large projects, but it may save time and energy over the long term.

Might be worth a read.

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California, the other America

I say again: arrrrgh!

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modifiedDate

Yes, yes, please add modifiedDate. I've wanted that for a really long time.

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Serializable objects in Java

If anyone's ever used Serializable objects in Java I'd appreciate some help. The documentation sucks, and it doesn't seem to be working how it's supposed to.

Ok, well I've pretty much figured out what was going on. Now my gripe is that Java is doing too much for me -- too much implicit stuff. I'm probably going to have to actually read a bunch of a Java book to refresh my memory on exactly how Java works. I had forgotten about the Object.toString() method, for instance.

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Microsoft is awful

Microsoft makes horribly insecure products, so to protect themselves from having arbitrary code execute in their e-mail program, they just block most anything from being opened altogether. Even if you know what you're doing, and you want the attachment, you can't get at it without hacking your registry. Damn you Microsoft!

But it looks like that registry hack only works for Outlook 2002, and there's really no good way to get around the hack that they put in to block you from getting your own file. Grrrr...

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