July 2003

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1. 626
   RSS Bru-ha-ha When I originally created my RSS feed, it was version 0.91. I’d read
   Published on 02 July in general
2. 627
   Blogstop (via evhead) – I love games like this. Spot the guy wh...
   Published on 04 July in general
3. 628
   Seek and ye shall find. Mere moments after looking for the foafnaut update page I stumble ac...
   Published on 04 July in general
4. 629
   Today, the BBC have an article about how the north-south divide in the UK is getting worse Art...
   Published on 04 July in general
5. 630
   Some interesting stuff: Writing FOAF in XML – I know RDF is supposed to be a machine language, but the majority of
   Published on 05 July in general
6. 631
   I was going to write about the ID cards in the UK. How they’re a bad thing, how we’re going to have to pay for them, and how they’re simply not going to work. Fortunately,
   Published on 06 July in general
7. 632
   I’m a very argumentative person. I like arguing; and not only do I like it, I’m always right. Also, I’m much better than you. This isn’t just vanity, it’s a fact. I’m faster, cleverer and braver. I...
   Published on 06 July in general
8. 633
   Both Brad Choate and Dean Allen had already mentioned it, and now it comes to fruition – Textile 2. Featuring such stuff as
   Published on 09 July in general
9. 634
   Marc Canter: Getting FOAFy Marc now includes links to the FOAF explorer and “Add me to your FOAF file” links as well as one to his plain...
   Published on 09 July in general
10. 635
    Weblogs don’t need comments Weblogs are different from threaded discussion groups or mailing lists. They allow you to carry out a distributed discussion where t...
    Published on 11 July in general
11. 636
    Sick of all the hype? Then why not mentally search-and-replace the fancy high-tech term “weblog” with a more down-to-earth equivalent – “soapbox”, for example – every time you hear som...
    Published on 11 July in general
12. 637
    Can weblogs change polictics? Only as much as ...
    Published on 13 July in general
13. 638
    Second only in editors’ dreams to Lord Lucan riding in on Shergar and carrying Diana’s secret love child comes today’s tabloid front page (via 2lmc via
    Published on 15 July in general
14. 639
    Netscape is dead. Everyone’s shouting it from the rooftops, and if it wasn’t such a maj...
    Published on 16 July in general
15. 640
    The Good, the Bad and the Partially Frozen The Web Fridge Project
    Published on 17 July in general
16. 641
    It’s about time the information about FOAF was pulled together. There’s quite a bit of it, but it’s spread over the web, with no guarantee of everything pointing to everything else. Gathering it al...
    Published on 17 July in general
17. 642
    In yesterday’s ramble about Netscape, I suggested that a Mozilla browser needed to be branded to mak...
    Published on 17 July in general
18. 643
    We had to make a decision at work the other day as to whether a site we were making should be able to support people with 800×600 monitors. I said no, that no-one used this resolution any more, tha...
    Published on 17 July in general
19. 644
    I know how involved Edd Dumbill is in the FOAF community, but I’d never taken the time out to read
    Published on 18 July in general
20. 645
    via Danny comes a link to an article which in turn links to the Getty Thesuaru...
    Published on 21 July in general
21. 646
    Question: Given ten divs all with float:left one after the other (let’s call each div “box”), all inside a containing div (which we’ll call “boxholder”, they won’t ...
    Published on 24 July in general
22. 647
    And so finally, as promised – bug trackers. Only free bug/issue trackers, and only ones I’ve tried, natch. If you don’t have a Live Demo, I’m not coming in. And why not start at the t...
    Published on 24 July in general
23. 648
    I’ve removed comments temporarily. Mainly because they were taking forever to appear. Replacements soon. You can still contact me via Jabber as specified in my FOAF file </raises the bar>...
    Published on 24 July in general
24. 649
    Bah, the bugtracker post was supposed to be a complete rant, but work is clearly exhausting me too much to build up a full head of steam. Anyway, the original xurble bugtracker is a...
    Published on 25 July in general
25. 650
    The guys at MeFi got this right – The kid in the orange shirt has no bones...
    Published on 29 July in general
26. 651
    Hooray! Danny finds the FOAF Topic Finder by the FOAF-tastic
    Published on 30 July in general
27. 652
    I hate crashes in the middle of blog posts. But anyway.. JabRSS has been playing up all today, so I only got the news via the old-school metho...
    Published on 30 July in general
28. 653
    Like the Mozilla DOM Inspector? Linked from the wdf-dom mailing list you download and install a very good DOM viewer for IE from ...
    Published on 30 July in general
29. 654
    It always depresses me when Gareth talks about
    Published on 30 July in general
30. 655
    At work I’ve been asked to write a (very small) SWT app, being the only member of the development team with any Java GUI experience at all (I’ve written some Swing apps before). Of course, t...
    Published on 31 July in general
31. 656
    Playmobil tarot cards! Nice. 🙂
    Published on 31 July in general