Archive: February 12, 2003
Hey, cool I'm number 8 on Technorati's Top 100 Interesting Newcomers
Via Julian:
Basically it's a list of weblogs tracked by Technorati where the number of blogs that link to them has rapidly increased. That's quite a good indication that the blogs are interesting and worth reading.
Wow, lots of interesting bits about how this works
Brent Ashley: In order to Serve You Better, we're going to invade Iraq
It's not so much that I disagree with the end result they're looking to achieve. I'm mostly insulted by their ridiculous diplomatic sleight-of-hand meant to fabricate premises for action and draw our attention away from the real core agendas driving their actions.
Please, give me credit for understanding and supporting a long-term strategy of protecting oil resources from control by irrational interests, or of nipping a potential nuclear terrorism or cancerous fundamentalism problem in the bud before it ever has a chance to take hold. Just don't feed me prevarication and spin.
Julian Bond: Why I'll be marching on Saturday
It's not because I particularly agree with the Far left, Radical Islam, CND, Student activists, Jesse Jackson or any of the other political groups that have hijacked that side of the debate. And it's not because I necessarily disagree with all of the right wing, propaganda machine that is trying to tell us that those are the only people who are against the war. It's because I don't believe that in 2003 a war against Iraq would make the world a better place for the people who live in it; either in general or specifically in the middle east.
Now my confusion comes because I'm willing to accept that a bit of gun boat diplomacy may have an outcome that improves the lot of the Iraqi people and by implication, us. It may be that a vigorous opposition to corrupt, undemocratic, power hungry regimes with little respect for human rights is a good thing.
But I still can't condone the first strike invasion of a sovereign state on the basis that they might do some thing, some day. Or even that they did some thing in the past.
IBM developerWorks: XML Matters: reStructuredText "A light, powerful document markup".
The document format called reStructuredText has been adopted as one of the official source formats for Python documentation, but is also useful for other types of documentation. reStructuredText is an interesting hybrid of technologies -- in syntax and appearance it is similar to other "almost-plaintext" formats, but in semantics and API it is very close to XML. David takes a look at this format and shows you how existing tools can transform reStructuredText into several XML dialects (docutils, DocBook, OpenOffice), along with other useful formats like LaTeX, HTML, and PDF.
Via LtU: Apache vs. Yaws
Apache is the web-server most of the world uses. Yaws is a web-server written in Erlang. Apache has recently been totally redesigned to take advantage of OS threads in an effort to support higher loads. How successful have the Apache team been? Not very, compared to Yaws. In a through-put benchmark Apache falters at around 8'000 concurrent sessions. Yaws handles over 80'000 concurrent sessions. Why the difference? Because Erlang doesn't use OS threads, but its own user-level threads. In other words, continuations. The two points I got from this are:
* Theory is inextricably tied up with practice
* Languages are operating systems
Also via LtU, Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell
More Like This: Redirects and Movable Type Archives. With a link to this informative post from Jonathan Delacour about archive URLs.
Scott: Tekka's Up
Via Oliver, Eric Raymond: The Art of Unix Programming.
Ha! I got a good laugh out of this from Jeremy.
I've submitted my gun application, so now I'm starting to think about what gun I should get. I'm still probably months away from getting one - who knows when the police station will get around to filling my application - and I need an extra few hundred dollars to spend, which I totally don't have right now. But anyway, I just wanted to keep track of these links from John Hawkins at Right Wing News where he goes over his gun purchase, first asking for recommendations, and then describing what he finally bought. It took me a little while searching with Google to find the posts, so now I won't have to do that later when I'm ready to do research for real.
If anyone has any application launcher recommendations for the Palm I'd appreciate it if you could leave a comment. Ideally, I'd like one where I could access every feature with my thumb, and which would give me a list of the most recently used applications in the order in which I most recently used them  I think that's sort of how the Windows XP start menu works...
I got Blast Pad (also here and here) and I'm happy with it. It's basically exactly what I wanted, plus it does some neat things I didn't expect. I like it a lot, except for the fact that I don't completely get one of the features it has, and the category switching could have been done a little better. It's a little tedious to set up a category switcher, but it can be done with a little work. However, the thing is so flexible you often won't need more than one category. It doesn't do the "most recently used" application thing, but I didn't really expect to get that anyway.
A must-read from Steven Den Beste: The Players and the Game.
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