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Archive for September, 2001

Sunday, September 30th, 2001

cowboyd want a cracker?:

Even though high level languages are generally a good thing, and make your life easier, being ignorant of what is going on beneath the covers will only hurt you. Stated otherwise, the prime tenet of OOP — that ignorance of implementation is always virtue — is, in a word, bullshit…

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Friday, September 28th, 2001

Some, in fact many will probably say I’m going to the dark-side, but I’ve finally sucumbed to using IE as my primary browser instead of the venreable Netscape 4.x. I can’t stand the whiz-bangidness of Netscape 6.x, and IE 5.x just seems to render things better. Everything looks so durned purty, and it seems like […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2001

Once again, I’ve stayed up late enough to hear the trash-trucks banging empty trash-bins on the street.
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And though I’m a little less eager to cheer failure than the often subtly smug Dave “Mr. Scripting.com” Winer, he does have a good on his bLog […]

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Wednesday, September 26th, 2001

Senor Dude sums it up best:

I
don’t even like my work that much, but somehow, as soon as I arrive, my
thoughts are completely swallowed by it. Then, all of the sudden it is almost
midnight, and I’m writing about my amazement of where the day went. I
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2001

Finally, an explanation of the difference between URIs, URLs, URNs, and all that crap. There’s a great line that shows a kind of resurgence of snootyness that’s been missing during the “boom-time” of the last few years,

People who are well-versed in URI matters tend to use “URL” and “URI” in ways that seem to
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