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Paths of the Dead

Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow the
Paths of the Dead 04/07/2005 10:24 PM
Did The Wizard of Oz inspire Lord of the Rings? "The first film version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was released in the summer of 1939, less than a month before World War II officially began. Though started as early as 1937, The Lord of the Rings was largely composed during the war years, but not published until somewhat later. Therefore, it is by no means impossible that J.R.R. Tolkien saw the magnificent MGM movie before he wrote most of his magnum opus. Could Oz have influenced his tale somehow, consciously or unconsciously?"

Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up

Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
I have posted a while ago about iChat's "Feedbag Error 17" message that iChat gives me when I try to...

Follow-up to Follow-ups to
One-Hit-Wonder song titles

Follow-up to Follow-ups to
One-Hit-Wonder song titles 07/16/2004 01:40 PM
First, there was this -- by John Moe, in McSweeney's, much-blogged already but much funny, too:

# How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?
# Bust an Additional Move
# Seriously, Eileen, Come On
# I Will Now Pass the Dutchie Back to You and Thank You for Passing It to Me Originally Because I Really Enjoyed the Dutchie
# Whoomp! There It Continues to Be

Link. Now, there's this, from sturtle:

# "As My Eyes Became Accustomed to Her Science, My Sight Was Restored"
# "Baby Lost 20 Pounds of Back (on Atkins)"
# "I Am No Longer Too Sexy for My Ten-Year-Old Shirt"
# and of course, "100 Luftballoons"

Link. But wait! Francis says Kittenpants blog has still more followups to followups to followup song titles. (Thanks, Siege, and thanks, Snoodle!).

Tab Follow-up

Tab Follow-up 01/10/2003 03:55 PM
Phil Weber informs me that Windows MDI apps have next / previous window shortcuts, Ctrl + F6 and Ctrl +...

If only gas would follow

If only gas would follow 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
USA Today May 19 2004 11:54PM GMT

NPH Follow-up

NPH Follow-up 12/06/2002 02:07 PM
Figure that this might help someone out later. MS KB Q176113 seems to indicate that IIS 3+ expects NPH CGI...

win2vnc follow-up

win2vnc follow-up 05/12/2004 04:03 AM
Last month I exchanged some e-mails with Feico de Boer, the author of the patched version of win2vnc I've been...

Follow that margin

Follow that margin 04/02/2005 01:53 PM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 4:40PM GMT

Backpack Follow-up

Backpack Follow-up 06/29/2004 12:47 AM
Got an e-mail today from a fellow Dell 8600 and Tumi Briefpack owner asking if I'd ever decided on a...

Follow the memos

Follow the memos 06/14/2004 11:33 AM

E-gov must follow the money

E-gov must follow the money 05/28/2004 12:37 AM
Sunday Times South Africa May 28 2004 3:55AM GMT

New web ads follow users

New web ads follow users 06/13/2004 06:18 PM
NEWS.com.au,Australia-6 minutes ago ... PricewaterhouseCoopers study. Much of the growth came from keyword ads that Google, Yahoo! and others deliver alongside regular search results. Such ...

New Web Ads Follow Visitors Around

New Web Ads Follow Visitors Around 06/13/2004 06:18 PM
WJLA,DC-1 hour ago ... study. Much of the growth came from keyword ads that Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and others deliver alongside regular search results. ...

PCs in '05: Tough Act to Follow

PCs in '05: Tough Act to Follow 12/27/2004 07:18 PM
TheStreet.com Dec 27 2004 10:49PM GMT

Survey Says: Way to Follow IPO

Survey Says: Way to Follow IPO 04/08/2005 03:41 PM
Greenfield Online has been very busy this year, making three key acquisitions.

Follow Your Passions

Follow Your Passions 12/19/2004 03:05 PM
Great profile of our VP of Business Development, Rick Klau, who has followed his passions throughout his career....

Soon, Marketing Will Follow You

Soon, Marketing Will Follow You 12/16/2003 05:34 AM
Ads that follow people around and morph themselves based on computerized demographic profiles aren't the stuff of science fiction anymore. A few researchers work to bring the era of omnipresent marketing closer to reality. By Daniel Terdiman.

XBRL follow-up

XBRL follow-up 05/10/2004 10:10 AM
Following last week's critique of XBRL, I had an interesting email exchange with David Vun Kannon, a manager in KPMG's financial services practice and one of the editors of the XBRL spec. The dialogue went far beyond what InfoWorld's letters column could ever accommodate, so with David's permission, I'm reproducing it here. ...

Follow-Through (Forbes.com)

Follow-Through (Forbes.com) 08/19/2004 06:28 PM
Forbes.com - Last year's FORBES E-Gang (see p. 144 for this year's group) featured five luminaries in the field of wireless communication. Two of our picks have left their jobs, while three are steaming ahead.

SmartPhone Follow-up

SmartPhone Follow-up 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
My first month with the MPx-200 was not as satisfying as the first 24 hours, entirely due to battery life....

Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader 12/06/2002 07:00 AM
John Kerry is running for President. The press corps doesn't like him. So some liberal website are following how a crap personal attack news story

A CNET Follow-Up

A CNET Follow-Up 01/22/2004 02:09 AM
While I'm pleased with the reception of the piece, in some cases I feel my message was clouded, so I wanted to take a moment to clarify a few things so that I'm not misunderstood. By Alan Graham (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

Follow the money

Follow the money 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
Blog: Thirty-three years ago today (where did the time fly) Frank Wills, a janitor at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.,...

"follow up post "

"follow up post " 07/25/2004 02:34 AM

Follow the Rhinos

Follow the Rhinos 08/19/2004 11:08 PM
Follow the Rhinos Weblog tracking two white Rhinos as they travel next month to the Phoenix Zoo. Nice looking site (via CSS Vault). In related news, poachers have killed about half of the world's population of wild white rhinos in the last year (more here).

Follow-up on the 10 Habits

Follow-up on the 10 Habits 02/26/2003 03:46 AM
I'm really surprised at how widespread the reaction to my Top 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers post has been. It has been turned into a survey, translated to Spanish and Japanese and commented on elsewhere. Many, many of folks...

Follow-up question

Follow-up question 04/14/2004 05:20 PM

Follow up on Nofollow

Follow up on Nofollow 02/01/2005 09:26 PM
Rogers Cadenhead: This sounds good, though it officially abandons the pretense that Google's search algorithm is tailored to the linking behavior of Web users, rather than the other way around. The lines between us and them is blurry.  Everything is intertwingled.  Whether we admitted it before or not. My urls contain dashes instead of underscores because google likes them better.  My <title>s are meaningful for similar reasons. In return, I get a more traffic from Google.

Follow the Vanishing Check

Follow the Vanishing Check 03/26/2005 12:04 AM
Banks and retailers are making major decisions about how to allocate resources as customers move away from checks in favor of credit cards and online payments.

For cybersecurity we need to follow a
leader

For cybersecurity we need to follow a
leader 11/14/2003 09:08 AM
ZDNet Nov 14 2003 8:23AM ET

Microsoft Source Follow-Up

Microsoft Source Follow-Up 02/13/2004 01:27 PM

Notes and Tips: PMU Follow-up

Notes and Tips: PMU Follow-up 03/19/2005 02:33 AM
Thad Salmon asked a natural follow-up question about yesterday's tip from an Apple repair reference and training guide.

Entourage 2004 Follow-Up

Entourage 2004 Follow-Up 05/19/2004 08:40 PM
I heard from Microsoft that most mail rules should without a problem. By Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.
...

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.
... 01/09/2004 09:51 PM

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.

8:20 PM | Chris Cummer

MSNBC - Follow the Money

MSNBC - Follow the Money 03/28/2005 05:45 AM
Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. 3/27 .. IRAQ will always be QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!! .. MSNBC

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Java to follow Solaris' example

Java to follow Solaris' example 06/04/2004 05:45 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 4 2004 9:35AM GMT

Why some paintings' eyes follow you

Why some paintings' eyes follow you 09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow: A psych prof at Ohio State has used computer graphics apps to determine why some paintings' eyes appear to follow you around the room:

"When observing real surfaces in the natural environment the visual information that specifies near and far points varies when we change viewing direction," he said.

"When we observe a picture on the wall, on the other hand, the visual information that defines near and far points is unaffected by viewing direction. Still, we interpret this perceptually as if it were a real object. That is why the eyes appear to follow you as you change your viewing direction."

Todd said people may be surprised by this phenomenon because of the unique perceptual aspects of viewing a picture. We perceive the object depicted in a painting as a surface in 3-dimensional space, but we also perceive that the painting itself is a 2-dimensional surface that is hanging on the wall.

Link (Thanks, Ernie!)

Follow your nose to control your PC

Follow your nose to control your PC 09/16/2004 01:47 AM
iafrica.com Sep 16 2004 6:16AM GMT

ULB 2004 Video Follow-Up

ULB 2004 Video Follow-Up 07/28/2004 06:21 AM
How they got all those displays working for this year's ULB.
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On "Feedbag Error 17"...

On "Feedbag Error 17"... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

A couple of days ago I noticed that I couldn't add Azeem Azhar to my iChat AV contacts list. I kept getting returned "Feedbag Error 17" which seemed entirely unexpected and unpleasantly phrased. Was I a feedbag? Had iChat eaten Azeem? The mind boggled.

After several hours of consideration, another option occurred to me. Perhaps iChat was trying to protect me from excessive contact with Azeem! Maybe my beautiful new Pantherised beast was being defensive! "No, Tom!" It was going, "He's bad news! He'll tell you that you work in Marketing again and you'll get all cross and defensive and make that ludicrous speech about being an artisan! Please! Please! Let me protect you from the embarrassment!" At which point, I assumed, feedbag laptop decided to chow-down on poor Mr Azhar's AIM name with fierce hungry vengeance. I touted this theory around a few of my friends. General consensus, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Well now I know that I'm not alone and that it's nothing personal, Mr Azhar! My Powerbook loves you and iChat loves you and all I had to do was throw away a couple of my childhood friends who - frankly - are never online anyway and kind of sucked at web stuff. In the end the problem was all caused by having too many friends - apparently AIM can only handle 150 contacts - at least that is according to Mssrs. Unsanity, Rael and Webb.

But it occurs to me that there's something slightly suspicious about all of this. A couple of days ago I tried searching for information about this error message, but it was nowhere. There was literally no information. Today, there's a search result returned, and posts about the subject on three separate weblogs. So what's happened? Is it a new error message or is it just we've all hit the limit at the same time? Or has the number of buddies available changed? I smell a mystery!

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HotFix Watch: Win32 Error = 1072 error
appears after you change the SMS 2.0
Service account of a secondary site

HotFix Watch: Win32 Error = 1072 error
appears after you change the SMS 2.0
Service account of a secondary site 12/28/2004 07:03 PM

Cliex32.dll Error 126 Error in
Wnmanual.log

Cliex32.dll Error 126 Error in
Wnmanual.log 06/18/2004 08:16 AM

Advanced Error Handling: Writing an
Error Handling Class

Advanced Error Handling: Writing an
Error Handling Class 11/10/2003 11:25 PM
If you're tired of the default error handler and want to have complete control over default error messages, you should write your own error handling class. Writing your own handler will enable you to change the way php handles your error messages, and allows you to create your own error types. With this class you will be able to send error messages to a log file, or send error reports via email.

Obtrusive XML Error Reporting

Obtrusive XML Error Reporting 01/22/2004 04:10 AM

I spent some time tinkering with XML today and decided to try out a non-draconian approach to XML error recovery. Point the browser of your choice at the following XHTML URL:

http://www.faireal.net/soft/browser/XHTML-In validator?Content-Type=application/xhtml+xml

If you try this in Mozilla, you should get something like this:

Screenshot

In current versions of Safari, you get something even worse, since you don't even get any line/col information.

What I implemented in my build (it's still just at the tinkering stage remember, so be gentle) is error recovery for non-fatal errors, i.e., the XML parser continues and attempts to recover from the error, and then I still build the DOM for the XML.

Once the parser is finished, I then display the Web page, but with a badge of shame, namely an error report at the top that lists all of the discovered errors. This is not a halt-at-first-error system, which is cool, since it means you'll see *all* the errors in your page and not just one.

Here's a screenshot of what I have so far. The error report is just XHTML as well (shoehorned in at the top using DOM calls), so if you have any ideas of how I could style it to make it look really cool, show me your screenshots.

Let me know what you think of this idea. Do you like it better than draconian error handling? If you dislike it, let me know why!

"0x800CCC69 SMTP_550_MAILBOX_NOT_FOUND"
error message

"0x800CCC69 SMTP_550_MAILBOX_NOT_FOUND"
error message 08/22/2004 09:25 AM

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“SYMPTOMS When you use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition to send a new e-mail message, you may experience the following symptoms: * In Outlook, you may receive the following error message: Unable to deliver the message due to a communication failure ……… 503 Sender already specified. * In Outlook Express, you may receive the following error message: error: 0x800CCC69 SMTP_550_MAILBOX_NOT_FOUND CAUSE This issue…

SSLtelnet Error Logging Format String
Vulnerability

SSLtelnet Error Logging Format String
Vulnerability 07/10/2004 11:24 PM
“A vulnerability has been reported in SSLtelnet, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error during the logging of certain error messages. Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.13-1. Prior versions may also be affected. Solution: Use another product.”

Clerical error puts Kennedy on "no fly"
list

Clerical error puts Kennedy on "no fly"
list 08/20/2004 10:57 AM
I bet Fat Teddy really blew a gasket .. this sort of problem

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Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly
List (AP)

Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly
List (AP) 08/19/2004 12:20 PM
AP - The Senate Judiciary Committee heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U.S. Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't let him on the plane. His name was on the list in error.

Error

Error 08/10/2004 02:34 PM

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404 error

404 error 01/14/2003 02:28 PM

I found this funny 404 error message on SDForum's Web site:

Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.

PXE-E51 Error

PXE-E51 Error 08/14/2004 05:23 PM

Blue Or Red? Error Or Not?

Blue Or Red? Error Or Not? 04/05/2005 04:18 AM
More variation mongers, but this time it's legit - though a little bass ackwards, or is it?

Error in fink-0.22.0

Error in fink-0.22.0 08/21/2004 12:30 PM
The fink-0.22.0 package manager, which was available briefly in the unstable tree this past week, had a bug which prevents further updating via rsync. If you installed this version of fink, you can recover by running the command fink install fink-0.21.2-1 which will downgrade fink to the version in the stable tree, and subsequently running fink selfupdate If for any reason those commands don't work, go to the fink file release page at sourceforge and download the file fink-0.22.1.tar.gz . Unpack this file with tar xfz fink-0.22.1.tar.gz , and then from within the fink-0.22.1 directory, run the command ./inject.pl The fink team apologizes for the error, and thanks the user community for bringing it to our attention quickly.

SMS FAQ: Error Code 53

SMS FAQ: Error Code 53 06/24/2004 09:38 PM

Database Error

Database Error 05/07/2004 06:10 AM

Error-Wait-0.05

Error-Wait-0.05 12/27/2003 06:42 PM

404 ERROR - Ultrashock.com

404 ERROR - Ultrashock.com 12/14/2003 06:49 AM
usable 404 page

ultrashock.com/404
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Spot the Error

Spot the Error 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
Cleaned up eh? (hint: line 28)...

Access Error

Access Error 05/24/2004 04:33 AM
General Says Sanchez Rejected Her Offer to Give Address to Iraqis About Abuses

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A possible fix for an iTunes 4.8 error
400

A possible fix for an iTunes 4.8 error
400 06/22/2005 02:23 AM
If you recently upgraded iTunes, you may have problems authenticating, viewing your cart, or shopping. There are two errors which have been occuring recently. The first seems to be 502, I believe, and this appears to be resol...

XML Error Reporting III

XML Error Reporting III 01/24/2004 02:50 PM

Thanks to those of you who answered my question regarding how much of an invalid page should be rendered. It turns out that the XML spec is clear on this issue, and that I must stop building up the page DOM after the first fatal error is encountered.

With that in mind I now tell libxml to continue the processing, but I start ignoring all of the callbacks. That way I get a list of all the errors, but properly stop the DOM tree buildup after the first error.

For those of you who suggested that WebKit needs some sort of error reporting API, I agree, and if it had one, these errors would obviously be reported to it. However, these errors still have to be reported aggressively so that WebKit clients can't mask these mistakes.

I don't believe in showing a sheet or a dialog as an intermediate step prior to displaying a rendering of the page. The reason I dislike this idea is that this error reporting is primarily a Web developer feature, and they're just going to want to load the page, see the errors, maybe correct some CSS at the same time, and then reload with changes until the error report has been eliminated.

The end user isn't ever going to see this report, since anyone who makes an invalid XML file right now ends up with something that won't display in any browser. Thus it seems to me that the report should be easy to access (in terms of # of clicks), always visible, and included with the page rendering.

I have polished the look of the report a bit based off suggestions. Here's another screenshot.

Error Handler

Error Handler 04/16/2005 11:27 PM
Support now available

XML Error Reporting II

XML Error Reporting II 01/22/2004 03:30 PM

Responding to comments in the previous blog entry:

(1) Some people thought this was a hacked expat. Darin actually switched Safari over to libxml2, so the error messages you're seeing (as well as the ability to continue parsing) are all built in to libxml2.

(2) Do you think it's better to show the page only up to the first error or to try to display the entire page (with the understanding that what follows the first error could be very badly mangled)?

(3) Often there are a lot of meaningless errors after the first. I could put a cap on the number of displayed errors to deal with this problem or just not worry about it. What do people think?

(4) Those of you who suggested drawers for errors, remember a drawer is a UI element in Safari and not WebKit. This feature should just work out of the box for WebKit clients, so I'm inclined not to use drawers or sheets, but to just display the errors at the top of the page.

Error-Wait-0.01

Error-Wait-0.01 11/03/2003 05:54 PM

More on XML Error Handling

More on XML Error Handling 01/22/2004 02:56 AM

I thought I'd respond to a few of the comments I received:

Many people suggested that there be a built-in validator in the browser that could show the errors to the developer. The validators basically break down into two types: obtrusive validators and unobtrusive validators.

If the validator is unobtrusive, then I would argue that it won't receive sufficient usage to make a difference. If the browser doesn't impose a penalty of some kind, then there will be no incentive for the author to correct mistakes.

I can see the value of an obtrusive validator, as long as the obtrusive part was only checking well-formedness (i.e., really basic mistakes).

(2) Some people pointed out that my own blog was not valid. I have two responses to that:

(a) I am not arguing for perfectly valid XML documents. I am arguing for well-formed XML documents. There is a difference. I think asking that the page be well-formed is setting the bar fairly low. For example, one of the current errors on this blog is that I have two elements with the same id. While this makes the blog invalid, it does not have any effect on the blog being well-formed. At least I don't think it does. :)

(b) I'm illustrating a point, namely that I have no reason to make the blog valid, given that browsers will display the blog anyway.

(3) People complained that I wasn't serving up XHTML. I can't actually serve up XHTML if I want the blog to be displayable in all browsers, including Safari, which still has sufficient issues with XHTML that I can't make that switch yet.

(4) My comments on HTML error handling were largely misinterpreted.

Some people thought I was attacking WinIE for its permissive handling of HTML. I was not, and I'm glad others appreciated that fact. Back in the 90s WinIE had to emulate the permissive error handling of the then-dominant browser Netscape. They had no choice if they wanted Web sites to be viewable as the designer intended. They were in the same position then that Safari is in now.

Nor am I suggesting that WinIE should become less tolerant of malformed HTML, or that they are at fault for not doing so. That is simply not a logical conclusion to have drawn from my previous comments. You can't take a Web site (even a malformed one) that works a certain way and suddenly refuse to render it or even render it radically differently than before.

For HTML, this issue was resolved long ago in favor of permissive error handling and recovery, and no modern browser is to blame for that situation.

Others said a browser that handles malformed HTML is better than one that does not, and if Safari doesn't handle all this malformed HTML, then it's simply not as capable a browser.

What amused me about this comment is that there is no definition of what it means to handle malformed HTML. As long as a browser shows you something and doesn't crash, it has handled the malformed HTML. What people don't understand is that you don't simply have to handle the malformed HTML. You have to handle it in exactly the same way as the Web browser that the site author designed for.

If you do not, you'll end up with different renderings of the same page, which as I said before, constitute the largest set of rendering differences between Web browsers. Perfect emulation is what makes error recovery so difficult. If you allow grossly malformed pages, then most XML on the Web will end up being grossly malformed (as is the case with HTML today).

Once you have a Web full of grossly malformed XML, there will be one dominant browser that designers will check to see if the site looks ok. They will then make assumptions that other browsers will recover from the malformation errors in precisely the same way and will simply assume that it is the fault of the other browsers if they don't.

Right now it is the responsibility of alternate browsers to emulate the dominant browser's error recovery strategies, but there's simply no reason to do that for XML as well.

Error in SMS RTM Documentation

Error in SMS RTM Documentation 05/28/2004 05:06 AM

Error In Downloading

Error In Downloading 11/14/2003 09:47 PM
Record, tech industries battle to make music pay off. By Russ Britt and Steve Gelsi (CBS MarketWatch via MyAppleMenu)

VBScript Error with FTM

VBScript Error with FTM 09/02/2004 02:43 AM

Margins of Error

Margins of Error 07/20/2004 09:16 AM
Wider margins should be greeted with wider smiles.

Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up To Follow-Up

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