Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27jul2007
AntiRight wants to be lightweight in resource use and requirements, create a prominent desktop scripting environment, meet the GNU coding standards, and ease the use of unix-like operating systems. Kinda interesting.
XQuery, libferris, and Virtual Filesystems, by Ben Martin. “By bringing together an XQuery engine and a virtual filesystem you can use a familiar query language to access relational databases, Berkeley db4 databases, kernel filesystems, and network files as well as XML. libferris, at its, core is a virtual filesystem allowing many different data sources to be exposed through a filesystem interface. These include the expected things like file://, http://, ftp:// as well as not so expected things like databases, XML files, and even applications like emacs, Evolution, XWindow, and Firefox.”
Well, you know, we was cruisin’ down the highway in a Greyhound bus.
All kinds-a children in the side road, they was hollerin’ at us, sayin’:
“Get your rocks off! (Get ‘em off!)
Get your rocks off! (Get ‘em off!)
Get your rocks off! (Get ‘em off!)
Get your rocks off-a me!”
— Bob Dylan, Get Your Rocks Off!
Conference talk brochure descriptions, by Mark Dominus. “One of the things that Nat (the program committee chair) and I have commiserated about in the past is that no matter how hard you try to make a clear, concise, accurate description of the class, you are doomed, because people do not use the descriptions in a rational way.”
One Book to Specify Them All, by Khoi Vinh interviews the guy behind the FontBook, “It’s billed as “the largest typeface reference in the world,” and just a single flip through its 1,500 pages leaves one with no reason to doubt that claim.”
Time May Not Exist, I still don’t have any.
Linux: The 0.01 Release, a close look at KernelTrap.
Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk.
— Bob Dylan, Paths Of Victory
What Would Euler Do?, nice cheque.
Liberation Hydrology: Miami, 2107 A.D., the future is wet.
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