September 2004 Archives

Unskilled and Unaware of It.

"People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it."

RSS Extractor

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Introducing RSS Slackyon Extractor. This particular incarnation of the tool generates RSS feeds for MP3 files, by reading the ID3 tags.

Risk Opportunists

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Improving finally released their new site. I wonder if the Risk-Driven Architecture concept is simply a compliment to "separation of concerns" and other models/heuristics for modularization or something altogether new.

Seems that the internet is about to crash, if you believe MS and Intel. Some of the woes stem from the very nature of HTTP request/response model, and is aggravated by the rise of RSS/Atom news aggregators. So, is a push model the solution?

Hiding XML

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Now after overcoming a number of mental hurdles regarding XML, including the lack of type safety and tool maturity, I'm still stuck with the aweful syntax. This is further aggravated by the reality of both data centric XML instances and manipulative or executable centric XML instances.

Spam Is Funny

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Spam inspired cartoons.