Charles Miller has an interesting example of the DRY principle.
Others I've never heard of before:
Mac:
Unix:
I'm seriously considering buying wikidPad. Anything else anyone wants to recommend?
There's a good post on the immigration news at American Realpolitik. I'd be ok with a one time amnesty for illegals, if we then ruthlessly enforced our immigration policies. It seems like we're doing the former without planning on doing the latter. Totally worthless.
John Hawkins has more: "This is Clintonesque, political gamesmanship at its worst"
This is amazing. Woman's Skin Falls Off, Miraculously Survives. Watch the video. My jaw dropped when they talked about covering her entire body with an artificial skin. Incredible. Via Drudge.
Cox & Forkum: Taliban Lite
The new Afghanistan Constitution represents at least a temporary improvement over the tyrannical rule of the Taliban, but it will not established a truly free country, only the veneer of a free country. By enshrining Islam as a political force, the new Constitution has laid the groundwork for another Taliban.
Whose fault is this? Certainly Afghans should have learned from the negative examples of the Taliban and Iran. But just as certainly, President Bush and his administration -- as the leaders of the occupying military force -- had great influence on the issue but apparently chose not to exert it. We can only hope that we aren't forced to return one day to depose yet another Islamist regime.
Wow, AOL is now publishing SPF records. And this right after I came across this from Phillip Pearson. I still don't completely get how SPF works. I didn't know whether it would take off, but now that AOL has implemented it it seems likely that it'll be used everywhere. Here's the SPF blog, while we're here. And check out this comment on Why this is a big deal.
Via Internet Alchemy, Entry-Level Unicode for XML looks like exactly what I want to read. I'm writing parsers for a non-XML markup language, and many of the issues regarding Unicode I have are exactly the same as the ones XML has. The parsers have been essentially done for a long time now, but I have to make sure they all work with Unicode. I also own a copy of Unicode Demystified, which is excellent, though this article is expectedly more targeted for my purposes than the book.
If the language supports Unicode directly, it's pretty much a piece of cake to support Unicode. I don't expect much work at all in Java, Python, etc. But one of my main questions is, for languages that don't support Unicode natively, such as PHP and C/C++, can I just store stuff in strings in UTF-8 format, and let an application my libraries hand data off to worry about converting it to a 16 bit format if they want to?
I'm interested in playing with Jabber. I'd like to see what it'll take to write a Jabber server implementation on top of Apache using some of the new layers in Apache. I could even write a Jabber server using mod_python and hooking into the Connection handler. I would like to be able to run my own Jabber server at keithdevens.com.
Friday, January 9, 2004
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