Yesterday was simple and nice: family, food and lots of presents for the kids.
My nephew Martin got new fuel for his steam machine and everything he needs to be a street-hockey goalkeeper (pads, glove, pad, helmet and a really cool sweater) – we played for hours in his room, until his parents told us to stop!
I continue to receive nice mail and other responses from people who read this page. Thank you!
Today me and Aila are taking it very easy. She has a cold, but manages to do lots of cooking and baking anyway.
Meanwhile, I am playing with the various DOM-alternatives for Python. The built-in SAX support (Python 2.0 + the latest version of PyXML) is very easy to use and works just fine, but using DOM is a bit messy. DOM is of course messy in any environment. Here are some other who dislike it.
Paul Prescod’s MiniDOM is what I’d like to use – here are the latest docs. But something is wrong with cloneNode() and there are Unicode problems, too.
Aila says I should take a walk while there is still sun outside – so I will. I’ll continue this research and write a summary later.
Hal pointed at Garret’s a year of blog – the top 25 items he has learned. I recognize so much of this… Garret, thanks for this great summary of lessons learned!
Martin changed his mind: “You know, I really used to hate young newly made dads running around with pictures…”
Greg is musing about ghost games… games from way back in 1996. Remember when something called multimedia was hot? I fooled around with desktop video in the early Nineties, even taught Director for a while… but making software was always more fun.
A conversation with William Calvin
Opinionated neuro-scientist and popular writer. Link via abuddhas memes.
ZVON.org has many excellent tutorials and online references about Web and XML-standards. There are lots of examples that work in the browser.
Snowdeal.org is a very ambitious weblog. Having a clear, readable layout, it’s actually more like four weblogs rolled into a seamless whole. The sections are called conflux, {bio,medical}informatics, ex machina and parallax.
Great links via Luke Tymowski at Qube:
Fredrik Lundh explains the real meaning of variable/parameter/assignment in Python
Jon Udell asks: Can the Java Virtual Machine already deliver What .NET Promises?
NY Time summarizes The year in technology law