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Mozilla Fun

Friday, January 22, 2010

I was just looking at some XML, and saw that the namespace for XUL is
http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul
It looks like someone likes Ghostbusters at Mozilla.  I just found it amusing.

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Technology and Courage

Friday, October 30, 2009

A few weeks ago, Ivan Sutherland came to Washington University to give a talk to drum up interest in a new idea he is working on (Fleet, Infinity & Marina [PDF slideshow]).  In my experience, most “old guy” talks aren’t that interesting because they meander with long tangential stories about their children.  Luckily, those were [...]

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RSS Sucks.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

I’ll admit that I haven’t spent too much time working with RSS feeds, but so far I’m unimpressed.  All they really seem to provide is a consistent view of published data for clients to read when they want.  That seems okay, but inefficient and a little redundant.  It seems like you could implement the same [...]

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