25 Jun 2005 Ankh   » (Master)

Finally added RSS and ATOM feeds to my picures from old books Web site. Tantek, Danbri and Libby all helped with the ghastly horror of RDF Literals.

Much pondering on Binary XML vs. Efficient Interchange vs. Let The Market Decide. No definite conclusion yet, but there's a lot of FUD about. I won't link to specific FUD, but there seems to be some on both sides.

Toronto's Pride Parade is coming up this weekend. Many naked ankles! yay! They expect about a million spectators. Panic, can't find the purple boa tht Jeremy gave me. Nor my orange hat. Will search tomorrow. Also lost the blue silk flower I was going to wear.

Moving house hit a snag: the person who was going to drive the rented van to Picton (about 3 hours East) discovered his driving licence had expired and he needs to take a test. So I have to look for someone else at short notice. Meanwhile the first few days of next week are YAPC, the Perl conference, which should be interesting.

I wish Advogato's recentlog page (by far the most useful page on the site) had a "go back further" option. I'd try to hack one up but I don't think raph has time to maintain the site as it is.

About to buy a desktop computer. I'll maybe post separately about why: I have lived without one for years, but this dell laptop nonsense is no substitute for a desktop, since it doesn't (in Linux at least) want to drive an external monitor at a decent refresh rate. I'm thinking the laptop will run WIndows XP all the time since it's pathetic at running Linux. Actually it's not too good at running Windows XP but at least it boots with on battery in Windows. This isn't a good laptop. If you're about to buy one, don't get a Dell. Go look at the high end Acer laptops maybe (my last one was an Acer) or Sony or Fujitsu or IBM. Look to see if they have a PS/2 port, and lots of USB ports, and a firewire port. And see if you can project to an external monitor without emotional trauma.

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