Ron's Log has a nice photo collection of the Golden Gate Bridge (via Scott Loftesness).
Here is my own best shot of the bridge. I must admit that Ron's shots are harder to take than mine since he had to climb the hills where I just said a boat. As to the differences in color, I think Ron took his picture right after a fresh paint job. ;-p
It's Friday again and a weekend of tinkering is about to start. This weekend its ASP.NET. For a Java programmer, programming in .NET is like a being dropped into a parallel universe where similarities breeds confusion. Imagine the mental state of a man who straddles two parallel universes and you got a good picture of an engineer who programs both in Java and in .NET. Onward!
Is it a Dragon? Nope, it's a Flying Snail!
Wecome to Mount Nevermind News. We care more about the quality of your life than you do.
Our latest invention is WakaWaka, the new standard for walking. As you know, the old way of walking was poorly documented and under-specified, opening the door to all kinds of funny walks. WakaWaka is simply the right way to walk, designed to make you look beautiful whether you are walking to your death or to the restroom. Also, every fine aspect of WakaWaka is documented so you'll never walk funny again.
To encourage you to walk the WakaWaka way, we have also designed WakaWakaThisWay, a walkway technology designed to enforce the WakaWaka walking style. Since we care more about your life than you do, we will be ripping up old roads and replacing them with WakaWakaThisWay. No need to thank us. It's our job to care more about your life than you do.
Just now, I was passing my son's room when I saw a spash of red color through the window. Signs of autumn are easy to overlook in California but here it was, right up against my son's window. I doubt he noticed it though, just as I didn't notice it until now.
Wonderful colors. Too bad the picture came out pretty bad with reflections and all.
Starting from today, I am going to be beardless. I used to shave once a week (I think the picture on my blog is about 3 days worth) because I got tired of electric shavers breaking down (thick hair) or cutting myself everyday. But it looks like I'll have to shave everyday now. Why? Because I am getting patches of white hair in my beard. I don't look like Santa just yet, but I look weird with partially white beard. Arghhhh! I want to be forever young!
Diego Doval wrote:
I simply don't understand why, if we are building communication tools, it appears that there's a lot of talk back and forth, but no real communication is happening. – the atom discussion heats up again
I am ashamed, Diego, for I am guilty as well.
Tomcat 5.0.16, first stable release of next generation Tomcat engine, is out. Woohoo!
I have been using Remote Desktop Connection for Windows Server 2003 and I am hooked. In comparison, remotely managing Linux servers through SSH console is swiming in mud. I particularly love the ability to access local drives and devices from the remote server desktop. No more SFTP sessions. To copy some files, I just drag and drop from local folder to remote folder.
Based on ongoing discussion in the atom-syntax mailing list over my Making Atom Happen proposal, most of them are not even taking the proposal seriously. One even called it trolling. Hogwash. If you are doing something that affects my life, I have the right to do something about it.
So it looks like all of us are going to pay for their pride and esthetic obsession: a sin tax over the syntax fetish. If you want to do something about it, go to the JustSayNoToAtomFeed page at Atom Wiki and add your voice of support. If we are going to be ignored anyway, lets get ignored blatantly. It doesn't matter if you are a developer or a user, you'll be taxed so you have a say.
As I commented on Scoble's post, I believe the Atom initiative is dead in the water despite apparent signs of Google adoption. That is too bad because the real strength of the initiative is the list of people and companies who have pledged support for the initiative. As Scoble pointed out, if Google adopts Atom then Microsoft will have to support at least two feed formats and this raises the question of "Why not Microsoft's own format?" We are heading down the wrong road.
IMHO, the most practical path out of this mess is for the Atom initiative to hi-jack RSS 2.0 and build on it without breaking backward compatibility. A new spec will obviously have to be written to avoid copyright problems with Dave's version of the RSS 2.0 spec, but people were complaining about the old spec anyway.
As to the Atom API, I won't bitch about it any more if RSS 2.0 is adopted as the core Atom feed format because the feed format is far more important than the API. This should satisfy Evan Williams since his real beef is with the API. Yes, there are some issues people have with RSS 2.0 but they can be ignored or worked-around with extensions until later, hopefully much later.
The best part of this solution is that everyone will feel like they got screwed.
Don Park's Weekly Habit 