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In 2003 I proposed embedding RSS in HTML to make syndication easier and eliminate the need for both seperate HTML and RSS feeds or at least make it easy to author HTML and generate HTML. This concept is now being formalized in the HAtom spec. Very cool, this could be a dramatic step [...]
Datenbrei has written a Greasemonkey script for HCalendar. Cool. Hopefully a move into making sharing calendar entrys more useful.
Technorati Tags: Greasemonkey, HCalendar
The user experience with VCard and ICalendar is completely broken.
In outlook, if you try and forward a contact to someone, you really have to know what you are doing. Trying to simply forward a contact results in an Microsoft Outlook contact being sent rather than a VCard. If the recipient is running [...]
The del.icio.us rest api makes it easy to backup your del.icio.us links with curl, availailable in most unix environments including cygwin on Microsoft Windows.
curl –user username:password -o myDelicious.xml -O ‘http://del.icio.us/api/posts
all?count=10000′
Restoring links is another matter. There is no similar way to upload a batch of links into del.icio.us.
I’d like to change my del.icio.us name. [...]
Sony has published a list of their CDs that install rootkits on PCs.
Technorati Tags: malware, sony
Follow Andrew and Steve on partially separate treks:
Andrews blog and photostream.
Steves blog and photostream.
I recently acquired from a neighbor a 3′ walnut tree they dug out of their yard - it was a weed. We decided we have no spot for it, so rather than tossing it in the compost, I thought I’d post a note on Victoria Freecycle. The note was posted around noon [...]
These excerpts from Paul Graham
on venture capital are interesting things to consider for the founders exit strategy if you dream about starting or funding a new venture.
Hence the fourth problem: the acquirers have begun to realize they can buy wholesale. Why should they wait for VCs to make the startups they want [...]
Keyword Assistant for IPhoto rocks. It makes it easy to add keywords to IPhoto, and it sorts them on demand.
Technorati Tags: IPhoto
I was considering tossing my my airport express on my junk heap alongside my HauppaugeMvp. Disconnecting it from my WDS network and creating a seperate network dedicated to ITunes seems to have fixed the problem. I haven’t had to reboot the AirportExpress yet.
I may try the MVP again once I upgrade the [...]
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