Links

• David Ellis: Lincoln Hating. Read this for some personal and historical context.
• Joshua Schachter has done a lot of neat stuff:
  • http://memepool.com/
  • http://del.icio.us/
  • http://geourl.org/
• Jeremy: Developers who build their own platforms and toolkits
• The Ideal CMS -- Circa 2004, via Jeff
• A Jaxen-centric tutorial on XPath (PDF), via Pankaj, via Erik.
• XPath tutorial at Zvon.org, via Pankaj
• Java Scripting: Half the Size, Half the Time, via Erik
• I've created a Java wiki page to keep track of a lot of this stuff.
• Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming [to read], via Erik
• John Hawkins: The Peril Of "Good Ideas"
• John Hawkins: Misc Commentary For Jan 15, 2004
• John Hawkins: Why Am I Supporting Bush In 2004? I'll Tell You Why.... I agree with him almost 100%, and it's a shame it's mostly about the lesser of two evils. Of course, except for the war on terror.
• John again: Wesley Clark In Quotes. Wesley Clark really does scare me. Not because I think he's got a shot at winning, but because he gives me the jeebees. He's got no core beliefs, and you can see how much he flips back and forth in what he says. But he skeeves me out for another reason, and the only way I can think to put it is that I get a feeling like he's a child molester or something. I don't actually think he molests children, but I really do get a weird feeling about that man. More. More on Clark and the rest of the Democratic candidates opinions on Iraq.
• Funny Steven Wright quotes
• Pres. Bush's Space Speech, and many reactions. More thoughts.
• The national debt has topped 7 trillion dollars
• Gibson's The Passion of Christ is debuting in February on 2000 screens. Josh thinks it's going to be huge.
• Cold.
• Howard Dean has been inconsistent (shock) in supporting action in Bosnia and not in Iraq. I've come across this before, but haven't linked anything about it. Here's part of what I've seen earlier.
• Yellowcake from Iraq?
• Wimps and Barbarians [to read], via Glenn
• Stuff about Iraq. More and more. Sorry for the lack of description. Don't let that stop you from reading it.
• Steven Den Beste has another worth-reading post.
• Text Processing in Python
• Where Blosxom and XML databases collide
• Computer Science Logo Style, via LtU
• ecos, real-time embedded OS
• Fast Servers: Events vs. Threads (PDF), via Keith
• The Market vs. God, via Keith

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del.icio.us

I just had to try out del.icio.us, especially while the username "keith" was still available. Just like I power my blogroll through blo.gs, I've wondered whether I could power my link-filled posts with del.icio.us, like Matthew does. For now, at least, there's no way to credit where you found a link, so that's a major showstopper for me.

If I were going to do it, the way I'd probably implement it would be to have a cron job run a script once an hour (or two or three). If it was the first time running that day, the script would check the last day's as well as the current day's del.icio.us archive for new links, and otherwise just check the current day's^[1]. Posts made up of links from del.icio.us would have a unique name within the day, such as "del.icio.us/keith" (which would require me to update my blog software to allow slashes in my post names...), and if the content had changed from the last time it was retrieved, the post would be updated. And obviously the links from del.icio.us would be StructuredText-ized to work correctly in my weblog.

Footnotes:
[1]: or if, for whatever reason, it didn't run for a while, it should be robust enough to do something to keep track of the last day it checked and get everything until it was current

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