Lots and lots of sleep today… I needed that.
And another fantastic Indian dinner at Ellora - I always feel good there. Recommended!
Aila will be up early tomorrow, so she has gone to her place - but she called to remind me of tonight’s Lexx. Here is a site by a very dedicated fan: SadGeezer’s guide to Lexx.
The author is now a HappyGeezer, though… recently married to a beautiful Russian Lexx fan.
Having spent two formative years in the late Eighties hacking Smalltalk, I share with some old-timers a certain “paradise-lost”-feeling: just a little beyond those mountains lies a kingdom… and we once knew exactly where. When that feeling becomes strong, I start up Squeak and play for a while.
This time I was inspired by Dave Winer’s recent link to a Squeak OPML browser. I thought I’d have a go myself (and add the Windows-look to my Squeak image while I was at it).
But unfortunately the single best Squeak resource is still unavailable: Squeak Swiki has been down for several days now… and unlike recent problems with the Python sites, I can find no explanations on the Net. Update 2000-11-06: it’s up again - but no clue as to what happened.
So reluctantly I went back to re-reading Kent Beck’s Guide to better Smalltalk, a marvellous collection of articles about patterns and object-oriented programming. Beck has the gift of simplicity - reading his articles will make you feel relaxed and wise. BTW, I haven’t read XP Explained yet - but I will.
Joel Spolsky is not very impressed by .NET. I think he is right: the good technology MS would have released anyway - the hype is there to make everyone feel better about subscribing to MS software - that is, keep paying forever.
Trying things with odd browsers is a good way to remember you are on the Web. Besides the obvious ones, I like to check things out with Lynx for Win32 and Konqueror for Linux.
Here is the first basic choice when you want to organize several XSL stylesheets: XSL: import and include.
BookNotes is really down on Bush. Go Craig!
Today I am a bit tired - yesterday Stan Krute called us “members of an achronal tribe” when I told him the local time in a Groove instant message. The last thing that happened was a very good discussion about Groove in the RU discussions group.
My current “day-gig” (as I referred to it somewhere in the above RU discussion) is strangely similar to my night-time existence. The theme for today: different strategies for implementing an advanced XML-based editor. There were meetings to discuss document schemas and requirements, vendor contacts and some more product evaluation - but not enough time with the actual tools. I believe in getting my hands dirty: identify realistic scenarios and deliberately break things… find out what really works.
MSXML 3.0 has finally arrived, by the way.
Sweden is a good place to wax philosophical in November: dark, cold and increasingly awful weather. No snow yet, everyone is getting sicker… people I am supposed to meet are down with flu.
Well, tomorrow I’ll see Aila again. She just sent me another SMS… in some ways we’ll always be teenagers. I wish she was here tonight!
Luke Tymowski is taking over the Zope Newbies weblog. Many thanks to Jeff Shelton, who started it!
Happy Samhain, Hal! Hope the thesis is coming along. We miss you round here.
Me, I think it’s the same old Martin…
Greg is covering some Japanese violence.
Will James Vornov beat the Dow?
Medley writes about politics without depresing me.
Craig has some more links on Bush that do depress me. I am convinced Bush will be very bad news for the rest of the world, too.
Susan still seems incredibly happy after finishing the book. Better late than never: congratulations!
DangerousMeta is too good to miss on most days.
BTW, Garret distrusts Outlook’s mail format and recommends backing up as text. Been there, done that… very good advice!
