I’ve always wanted to be the kind of hacker who did clever things and wrote about them for other kids like me to read and try.
Here’s a mini rant about Amazon.com: Apparently, user accounts there are identified by some combination of email address and password. That is, you can login with the same email address, give three different passwords, and get three different sets of user data. Different wishlists, different shopping carts, the works.
You could use some mashup of RSS and XML-RPC for a Universal Blog Transfer Protocol, but I’d suggest using Atom. It’s a data model and an API, where the data model represents blog content quite well and the API complements it for the purposes of shuffling things around. With a mix of XML-RPC and RSS, I could only imagine lots of fiddling going on to transliterate between RSS and metaWeblog API structs or whatnot.
So last night my buddy Bob, aka Macross, aka director / producer / host / tech / janitor of IPM Radio, turned 30 last night. Lots of music, drinks, and monkeys. Can’t believe I’ve known this guy for like 14 years. Come take a look at some photos of the party that was broadcast live from his basement.
Wherein I try making a Windows box do things it’s probably not supposed to do, and am frustrated when it doesn’t quite do what I want it to do.
Hmm. Looks like some pictures of the new Nintendo DS are filtering out of E3 today. Notice any similarities?
I’ve been tinkering for years now with TiVO-zing my PC, with varying degrees of success. But, that’s not what I really want. Lately, I’ve been reading The Invisible Computer by Donald A. Norman, and it’s gotten me thinking: What I really want is a family of entertainment appliances. I want to make them myself, I want to do it on the cheap, and I don’t want to go to jail.
Well, it did seem quiet, but it’s comforting in an odd way that RSS Wars are still raging as I wander back into the blogosphere. I suggest that all that Atom haters out there put on some RSS-colored glasses and forget there ever was an Atom. XSLT and URL-as-command-line to the rescue!
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
