Users of the FedEx Tracker trying, and failing, to get it to work with
a windows machine should find it now works. For what it's worth, an
error of 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in the Feed Validator
means...
Their have been some updates to MSN Spaces here is a link to a list
of them. [Microsoft Developer]
Categorizing with spaces
Categorizing with spaces03/06/2004 02:05 AM Jon Udell's been paying a lot of attention recently to categorizing
XHTML elements. Two of his readers suggested that he use the class
attribute, delimiting the categories (if necessary) with spaces; this
is also valid CSS. I'm in favor of it as well, as it has worked well
for me in two other circumstances. At del.icio.us/crysflame, I keep a
notebook of interesting links. Each link has several pieces of
metadata; of interest is the tags field. The content of this field is
a space-delimited list of categories, so to speak; a blog post about
Google's IPO would be assigned "blog business", while a paper about
graphing social dynamics would get "science social math". It's worked
out very well for me, so far; I can find things easily enough by
selecting individual tags, though more complex slices of the data
aren't...
Psychophysical spaces
Psychophysical spaces02/10/2004 02:53 AM Psy
chophysical spaces - the tuberculosis sanatorium of Paimio,
Finland from the beginning of thirties. Explore Alvar Aalto's soothing
Scandinavian functionalism on a detailed virtual tour.
PPS has
an international reputation for its work on the design and management
of public spaces. A non-profit, PPS was founded in 1975 to continue
the pioneering work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. PPS has
helped over 1,000 communities in 44 states and 12 countries improve
their parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries and
countless other public spaces.
MSN Messenger 7.0 and MSN Spaces Go Final04/07/2005 12:25 PM Late Wednesday, Microsoft pulled the trigger on the final versions of
its MSN Messenger 7.0 instant-messaging tool, as well as its MSN
Spaces blogging service.
New MSN Spaces, Messenger 7 Launch
New MSN Spaces, Messenger 7 Launch04/07/2005 02:22 AM Concluding four months of beta testing, Microsoft has launched final
versions of both MSN Messenger 7 and its "Spaces" blogging service.
The new releases bring tighter integration and more communication
options for Messenger users, including full-screen video and PC-to-PC
audio.
Namespaces, Name With Spaces, and Attribute Values
Namespaces, Name With Spaces, and Attribute Values10/28/2003 11:06 PM In this month's XML Q&A column John Simpson answers questions about
namespace prefixes and the legality of XML element names that include
spaces.
"Clicking on the orange RSS button or the "Syndicate"
link above will no longer spit out raw XML to your readers using a
modern browser. Instead, they will see a "pretty printed" RSS feed
with a link to learn more, subscribe in My MSN, or subscribe in an
aggregator supporting one-click subscription
(feed://)."
In other words, readers of any of the 4.5 million
MSN Spaces blogs can now simply click a feed link to subscribe to the
feed in FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator, Shrook, RSS Bandit,
NewzCrawler, Sharpreader or any other RSS reader which support the
feed URI scheme. Very nice!
NASA Spaces on Energy Solution
NASA Spaces on Energy Solution06/22/2004 05:53 AM Beaming power gathered by satellites to Earth could help satisfy the
world's need for energy, and several nations are researching it.
However, the country with the biggest pockets -- the United States --
has taken a pass. By John Gartner.
Reports: MSN Messenger 7, MSN Spaces Both Set to Go Final
In 1999, the World
Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous
decade and lamented: “I wanted the Web to be what I call an
interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying
‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great
because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was
not what I meant by interactivity.” That vision of a genuinely
interactive environment rather than “a glorified television
channel”—one in which people not only would browse pages but also
would edit them as part of the process—did not disappear with the
rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It’s churning away more actively
than ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic
breed of pages known as “wikis.”. This has been added to my Wikis
section in Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators web page.
Parking spaces stretch to fit fat rides (USATODAY.com)
Parking spaces stretch to fit fat rides (USATODAY.com)01/03/2005 08:12 AM USATODAY.com - When the Bernardsville, N.J., borough council voted
last month to widen parking spaces, it may have put itself at the
vanguard of communities that are trying to accommodate sport-utility
vehicles, minivans and other larger vehicles.
Sacré SVG: Big Lists in Small Spaces
Sacré SVG: Big Lists in Small Spaces06/05/2005 11:54 PM After a long hiatus, our Sacré SVG columnist, Fabio Arciniegas,
returns with a technique for displaying large lists or trees of
information in small spaces.
How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide open spaces
How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide open spaces05/26/2004 12:02 PM Debisys, a prepaid phone transaction service processor, thought it
would be a Windows shop forever. Debisys runs Windows 2000 servers, a
SQL Server database, and Windows desktops. "There was a perception
that we'd always buy Microsoft software," says MIS Manager Mike
Figeuroa. But that is all about to change. "We are doing a complete
migration to open source."
10.3: ColorSync Utility shows 3D color spaces
10.3: ColorSync Utility shows 3D color spaces11/02/2003 07:37 PM In the ColorSync Utility program (in /Applications -> Utilities),
you can click on the 'Profiles' option in the toolbar and then see at
what level your colorsync profiles are installed. Clicking on one of
the profiles itse...
Force the Finder to search for leading spaces in names
Force the Finder to search for leading spaces in names04/22/2004 10:34 AM One of the Panther updates changed the behaviour of the search box in
Finder. Searching for a string beginning with a space used to work as
expected. Eg " Data" would find "My Data" but not
"MyData.&q...
Merging Spaces: From Digital Information Architecture to Narrative Imagination
Low Cost OEM Pressure Transducer Offers Superior Performance in Tight Spaces
Low Cost OEM Pressure Transducer Offers Superior Performance in Tight Spaces03/19/2005 03:12 AM American Sensor Technologies, Inc. offers a low-cost, high-quality OEM
pressure sensor built to address applications with tight space
restrictions and requirements for high accuracy, trouble-free
operation and long life. Measuring just 0.875 inches in diameter, the
AST4100 Pressure Sensor offers superior performance within the tight
confines of refrigeration systems, test stands and data loggers. The
stainless steel construction of the header and housing makes it ideal
for use in the corrosive environments of gas panels as well as within
energy/water management applications (pump and tank monitoring). The
pressure sensors also serve the automotive industry as integral
components of test equipment and aftermarket pressure regulators.
[PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do07/18/2004 04:11 AM I was an iPod junkie. It was hard, but I had no choice. I had to say
goodbye. By Bret Begun, Newsweek (via MyAppleMenu)
Breaking into Bioinformatics
Breaking into Bioinformatics07/08/2004 05:10 PM When the Xserves arrived for the new Idaho State University
bioinformatics lab, says assistant professor of comparative genomics
Mike Thomas, “they were up and ready to be used almost
immediately.” [Jul 8]
At the breaking point
At the breaking point04/29/2004 07:45 AM The Bush administration's unrealistic war planning has increased the
dangers facing the men and women on the ground in Iraq.
Breaking The IE Habit
Breaking The IE Habit07/06/2004 08:08 PM Fear of viruses, security whoa's, spyware, scumware, malware, and
general obsolecence is driving users away from IE in record numbers.
Breaking GOP ranks
Breaking GOP ranks05/12/2004 08:20 AM As more Republican senators sour on Rumsfeld's war, John McCain and
Chuck Hagel may no longer be the party's lone men of conscience.
Great article over at Brighthand about how Palm has violated many
of its own design precepts with its new Tungsten T handheld. ReadAmazon - Tungsten T
Stuff breaking in slo-mo
Stuff breaking in slo-mo12/09/2003 06:10 AM Micah says, "Here are some wonderful high-speed videos of objects
changing state, deforming, recoiling and combusting. Glass, tofu,
matches and kickballs are all subjected to forces and recorded in
fascinating detail."
Link
(Thanks, Micah!)
Breaking Mail
Breaking Mail06/17/2005 05:03 PM We (Creative Commons) just upgraded to Apple's Tiger to get the
benefit of some cool new iCal features. I'm regretting the decision
already. I had moved to Mail.app a while ago, after being frustrated
with Entourage's bloat. And after some tinkering, I had crafted a
series of hotkeys to automatically move mail from the inbox to
different folders. I have always been astonished that this function
wasn't integrated into mail applications -- do you all really drag and
drop the hundred of emails you file, or do you just not file email?
Anyway, though Apple proudly lists all the improvements to Mail as an
inducement to upgrade, it doesn't list the things it broke -- in
particular, scripting. No longer can you script within Mail. And while
you can script at the system level, hot-key support for those scripts
doesn't work right now.
This is a bug, no doubt. I imagine they'll fix it. But meanwhile,
they've also changed the naming convention for such scripts (used to
be ctrl, now ctl, etc., or something like that). All of which makes me
wonder: who is it that thinks changes like this are improvements? How
could you ever imagine that there's more good than harm done by a
change like this? Just part of an endless conspiracy to disable the
ability to automate life in macland. Why work to automate when some
genius will change a convention to force you to recode every time you
"up"grade a system?
Update: I thought I had posted this update last week. Sorry for
the delay. Just about an hour after I posted this, a modest coder sent
along his work which solves the problem. Check out Red-Sweater's
Fastscripts. See also this free
plug-in.
HP: Breaking up is hard to do03/31/2005 12:35 PM Mark Hurd, who will take over the reins at floundering tech giant
Hewlett-Packard on Friday, was grilled by analysts Wednesday about
whether he plans drastic restructuring of the company.
Hurd, formerly the chief executive officer of NCR (Research), was
named CEO on Tuesday. During an introductory conference call with the
financial community Wednesday morning, Hurd stressed that his primary
goal is to repair the problems at HP (Research), and not necessarily
break up the company. "You talk about problems but there are a
bunch of opportunities at the same time," Hurd said in response
to one question about strategy. "I want to get underneath every
piece of the business and will be focused on doing my best to optimize
each part."
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