News on low-level W3C and IETF XML standards: xml:id, xml:include, xml:link, IRI, XOP,

After three years of trying alternatives, I finally have an architecture that mostly removes Java's remaining cog-stoppers for desktop applications under Windows: virtual utilities.

The web's most popular game has a new champion

A good chance to improve OASIS' direction: vote for RG!

Software development methodologies are usually couched in terms of improving software quality. But they often act by improving programmer quality.

Promotional video on the East vs. West cell phone technology gap and Earthlink's new partnership with SK. You can also Google Earthlink + SK

My rough calcuations suggest you might have trouble with a string larger than 500,000,000 characters inside Java, or reading in a text file larger than 167 Mbyte, no matter how much RAM you have.

A year in jail for advertising P2P software?

A few days ago I posted a blog called "Are Blogs the New Journalism?" which garnered some lengthy rebuttals both here and on my blog. I learned something from that conversation and some other reading and started thinking about it in terms of open source.

I'm quite bullish about W3C's "Binary XML Infoset" project, after looking at Fast Infoset, an Open Source library at java.net. The thing I like is that it reminds me of XML's development: respect-based standards are a win all around.