As well as only being interrupted at regular, predictable times, I want any interrupt-driven tools (like aggregator and email toaster alerts) to respect my calendar and presence status. In fact, it should be possible to drive my presence status from my calendar. If my calendar marks me as being in a meeting, or busy in any way at all, then I want my IM status to be changed automatically,...

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In his most recent ‘ongoing’ post, Tim Bray writes: These days, interoperation and integration are everything. You’d better have open interfaces, open networks, open services; that is, open data. Which in practical terms usually means XML. I’ve been thinking about this a little bit recently. Not the specifics of using XML, but integration in general. I’v...

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