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Hire Bob
Bob DuCharme, author of many successful books and a long-time XML expert, is leaving Lexis-Nexis. If you’re looking to hire a senior XML person with good name recognition, you might want to make their loss into your gain.
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The big recycling pile
A couple of times every month, I open all the bills, bank statements, investment statements, and government correspondence for my three (!!) corporations and blast through the paperwork (somehow, I always seem to open cheques from customers a bit more … Continue reading
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The Curse of the Tin Woodman
In L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Project Gutenberg), the Tin Woodman was originally a human named Nick Chopper. In an effort to prevent his marrying his sweetheart, the Wicked Witch of the East cursed his axe … Continue reading
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Early retirement is no fun
Philip Greenspun has an posting about the problems with early retirement. It’s hard for people to sympathise with the problems of a guy who has enough money that he can buy fun airplanes and not work 9-5, but I have … Continue reading
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Canadian music exec fights RIAA
Here’s a genuinely heartwarming story. The RIAA is after David Greubel of Arlington, Texas for having 600 downloaded songs on his family computer, and is trying to get him to pay USD 9,000 to settle out of court. Greubel’s 15-year-old … Continue reading
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Scanning to PDF in Linux
I scan documents for two main reasons: to have backup copies of my airplane’s technical logs (a plane can lose tens of thousands of dollars of value if the logs are lost); and to allow me to submit expense claims … Continue reading
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Kudos for Google
(Updated to include MSN response; updated again for the China thing.) According to this CBC article, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL have all willingly handed over search records to the U.S. government (they claim that no personal information is included, but … Continue reading
XML 2006 new time and place: Boston, 5-7 December 2006
[Update: comments are now fixed — if you have any comments about XML 2006, please feel free to leave them.] I am chairing XML 2006 this fall, taking over the conference after five successful years under Lauren Wood. This year’s … Continue reading
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The v.2 problem
[Update: in a comment, Mihai Parparita points out that the Graffiti v.2 was changed for legal reasons, not aesthetic, as explained in a Wikipedia article.] I got a Palm Z22 for Christmas, to replace my old monochrome Palm Vx. I … Continue reading
Forkability
Kurt Cagle has an interesting piece on the term Open Standard and what, if anything, it means. Rather than a definition, I’m more interested in a shiboleth, a single test that can tell us whether source or a standard (or … Continue reading
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