Adding basic XML 1.1 support was surprisingly straightforward, but premature. However the 'XML stack' should not mandate XML 1.1.

The police need to be more active.

This article cites a really weird attack on the authorship of Linux... I remember that Linux was based on the Minux stuff early on, but Minix was designed as a learning OS in the Tennenbaum books... They make this absurd argument that Linux couldn't have been written by Torvalds because it would be impossible to write that fast - even though it was. In 1991 I had a class on operating systems at UCLA and they expected all the CS students to rewrite parts of the Minix code... it will be incredible if this sort of nonsense wins in court.

Some thoughts from teaching XSLT. Is there a gap for a little language, strictly streaming, for simple in-place text tranformations?

"XML and Web services are crucial for protecting America" Using RSS and E-Ink for general Class 4 IETMs

"Finally, it's hard to minimize the importance of the DVD Forum's provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 technology, essentially Windows Media Video 9, along with two other technologies, H.264 and MPEG-2, as mandatory on next-generation playback devices."

Going from Mandrake 9.1 to Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition was actually pleasant, even with a missing disk 3; only marred by an easily fixable Mozilla problem

The dictionary shrinks again