Push Button Paradise

All this time, I thought content negotiation broke fragment identifiers, but maybe content negotiation is just broken?

Huh. -m

Here's one for Tantek and Eric--let's see how long it takes them to notice. :-)

'"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful

Did you understand the title? Me neither. Stop the madness. -m

New Tolkien Manuscript Uncovered

Tolkien's translation and appraisal of Beowulf, the epic 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem. Plans are already in place to publish it in 2003. -m

Software: Zoot had been hobbling along under Win4Lin. It would run once after install, but then shut down with mysterious 'file in use' error messages. (A clever hack made it perpetually think it was just installed.) Finally, after a nasty crash, it refuses to start up at all.

I've managed to extract all my information and get it into SnipSnap. This software is somewhat Wiki-like, and it seems to cover the tiny percentage of Zoot functionality I actually use. Even more importantly, it's cross platform and allows a full database export as XML, so I'll never have to worry about data entrapment again. -m

"Never offend someone with style when you can offend them with substance"

The style chapter is now online, in the ususal place. -m

The Sun Advanced XML in the Enterprise training couse includes an entire unit on XForms. This seems pretty recent -- last modified 18 December 2002. -m

Jon Udell writes about XForms and similar technologies:

"XML data capture is too important to be siloed within applications such as Word and Excel. It's a capability that needs to be readily accessible to developers and deployable everywhere." -m

Legal stuff:

I have clarified that the text of my ongoing book is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 license.

As has been the plan all along, after publication, it will be available under the GFDL.

In infobot-speak,
creativecommons++
creativecommons++
creativecommons++
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DocBook import and export for OpenOffice -m

On O'Reilly weblogs: Pharoah's Dream

Some post-XML2002 thoughts. -m

Epigraphs

Serious or silly, clever or deep, each chapter in my XForms book now has an opening quote. -m

On O'Reilly weblogs: XForms and XDocs: friend or foe? -m

The cover for my upcoming book...

Heh, heh, thanks to LK for coming up with this. -m