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Calendrier

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My grandmother's twin sister died yesterday. She was 89 years old. My grandma called late last night to give me the news. She sounded pretty down, but said s…

I just found out I'm a dumbfuck. Why don't they tell me these things? I'm always the last one to…
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Trillian, FileBuddy & TigerLaunch

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Mike likes Trillian Pro. I gave it a try and liked it so much that I bought a copy too. I also upgraded to FileBuddy 7. Rick is looking for an open source ca…

Apache AXIS 1.0 RC1 is now available. I used one of…
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Lean & Mean

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I spent most of yesterday's reinstalling Windows XP on my primary development machine. It never really recovered since the Mozilla attack.A pretty smooth ins…

The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce that, after nearly one year…
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Where did my music content music go?

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Music labels are bleeding. Piffle The music industry reminds me of a dog chasing its tail. Pointless. The slump has very little to do with peer-to-peer music…

Yes. I do not buy as many CDs as I once did. The industry is too fickled. Everything is tailored towards teens, which have the attention span of a lollipop. The flavor of the day, no doubt an overnight sensation, will be featured on VH1's One Hit…
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RSS 0.94: Spam Free

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The RSS 0.94 draft is currently discussed on various blogs. I'm very interested in the matter since we made jTalk capable of generating both RSS and RDF chan…

I completely agree with Chuck Shotton. There is a pressing need for a content type attribute. But it also must be explicitly supported by the and sub-elements. Most of us purposely employ various methods to cloak email addresses on web pages, while they are left wide open on all syndicated feeds. How long will it be before the email extractors figure out a way to collect addresses from our RSS-based feeds? They might even do so already. The one thing…
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Random OS X 10.2 Observations

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My observations (and fixes) on Jaguar upon installation: /usr/local/bin is no longer in the $PATH. To fix, execute: echo "source /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc"…

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Newz

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Last month, while vacationing in Hawaii, my partner proposed to his girlfriend. Vicki made it back home safely, with one extra bag. New builds of NewzCrawler…

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