I noticed (by watching my log analysis program that I should really release some day if I can find the time) that people coming to my web site from Advogato, most likely because of sye's article about my pictures scanned from old books, are much more likely than other visitors to look at the Oratio Dominica (the Lord's Prayer in over 100 languages and scripts) or in my scans from Fry's Pantographia, another old book along the same lines. Most visitors are looking for pictures of ruined castles, I think.
The upshot of this is that I am encuoraged to scan more of Fry's Pantogrphia. If there are any particular pages that interest you, let me know (liam at holoweb dot net). There's an index to give you an idea of what is there; I have scanned I think 50 out of almost 800 pages.
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Chicago, life doesn't end at 40. Or if it does, I'm doomed, because I shall be 41 in September.
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It turns out that the country with the best long-term cure rates for many so-called mental disorders is India, with a massively higher sucess rate over 10 years (I seem to recall 65% to 85% compared to 18% in the US, but that's from memory and probably not accurate). The difference seems to be that instead of prescribing over-priced drugs to treat the symptoms (drugs that can also lead to violent deaths), they try to help the person live with their situation and be in control, thrugh meditation and insight. This is very third-hand; browse <the a href="http://prozacspotlight.org/">Mad Pride</a> issue that Adbusters for some references. I'm posting about it because I think several people here may find it interesting and useful. Plus, giving Adbusters more publicity can't be bad :-)
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badvogato, some of the best sex I ever had was when I was a slave.
k, I love that track too. That and the No Nathanial! one, which tends to stick in my brain and go round and round and prevent me from thinking for days at a time. Some people would say I don't think much anywy, of course!
elanthis, sometimes there are secondary advantages to using XML that you don't predict. In some ways we're seeing the effects that LISP programmers hoped for more than 30 years ago: when you use a common format for information, and when you use declarative representations for relationships on that data, yuo can treat programs as data, and manipulate data with data, programs with programs. This is part of the success of XSLT. Yes, it's verbose, I grant you that. You might get some mileage by having a short-form syntax that is converted into the same representation automatically, so that you can still use XSLT (or something similar) to manipulate objects. I don't know. But don't write off XML because it's verbose. Typically, clear internal documentation of a format ends up being more valuable over a ten-year period than size of data. When you say, these aer data files that need to be edited by humans you are saying, the user interface to my program is humans editing configuration files. That's the problem you have, not XML. Or so it seems to me.