On bootload: Nerds hacking NerdTV #42

`... Journal #42, where we stuff NerdTV from
MPEG-4 downloads onto DVD so we can
watch it on TV instead of the computer.
Where writing Code & selling code goes
in fits and starts. ...`

NerdTV on DVD

Journal #39 where I`m stoned by the angry /. mob for questioning their beliefs. (I was prompted to reply after reading 'Torvalds Says, "Use KDE"'. This is a reprint of my journal article, Not the Messiah #39 with corrections.)

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Sophism,valid critics & hype Pt. 2 #34

Summary
Journal #30, Mucking around with RSS &
Perl this week. Fine tuning regular
expressions. Listening to Dave Winer on
ITConversations about RSS. Reading
about RSS on JOS. RSS stands for
`Really Simple Syndication` and
simplicity is its focus.[0]

Really Simple Syndication
In a Joel on Software forum, I answered a query by Rudolf F. Vanek on RSS Feed creation. [1]

Summary
Things todo list, pod2blog & other
stuff. List things completed. Some
reading. Spammed by phone.

Things to do

I made a post a couple of days ago bemoaning the fact that commercial interests are always on the lookout for an easy feed. In this case it was about google getting into bed with wikipedia .

Update: looks like the moderation posting to posters is slower than to users.

'Beware of snake oil' post has no moderation comments? this is odd as it was dropped a point (big deal) but no comment given. Bit odd as I've never seen this before.

Is is product placement?

• '... With universities forced increasingly to find creative new ways of fundraising, Melbourne Uni took an unprecedented step. It set up a new company, Melbourne IT, to run the .com.au names operation and, in December 1999, floated the body on the stock market. The stock rocketed far above the listing price. ...

The promise
I remember when Chandler was first mooted. Finally an open souce project that has a vision of how to store and communicate small bits of information. Traditionally these types of applications have been lumped together with *ugly* (but accurate) acronymn, PIM.

Slashdot.org:
'not impressed' [1]: acvh [2] - '... The games available at release and soon
after do not look very interesting ...'

good guys
for the year and a bit I've been able to regularly catch up with an old show that I hadn't watched for some 20yrs. every friday afternoon, 1400 I could watch, pretty much add free on Channel 31 (which transmits from deep within the bowels of story hall). At the time