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Hmmmm....I'm curious why so many people are posting diary entries as articles.....

Been playing around with RSS stuff today. After much searching for a CSS stylesheet for RSS, found the W3C RSS Stylesheet which makes the W3C RSS Feed look pretty good in Mozilla. I borrowed it for the rtsp.org RSS feed. Also, suggested that the Mailman developers add RSS support to Mailman

Just posted an article about campaign finance reform to Kuro5hin. My contention is that it's a big ol' red herring, and that we really need to get rid of the two party system.

At any rate, we'll see what others think...

I started an interesting discussion over at the MPEG4IP list (well, interesting to me). The MPEG4IP project is a group that is working on end-to-end MPEG-4 interoperability, per the ISMA specification. I started by asking about widening the scope of their project to doing H.263/MP3/RTSP/RTP interop. Still early, but I think there's some definite possibilities there. While I don't agree with the tactic (promoting MPEG-4), the spirit of the project is a good one. They seem very interested in talking about interoperability using whatever means possible. The thread concerns asking them to widen the scope of things.

I just posted an article titled HTTP and MP3: The Only Streaming Media Standards That Matter at a new community site for streaming media called Ubergid.

Migrated over to Evolution this weekend. I think it's getting there. In the process of doing that, I wrote a script to migrate my Eudora filters. After getting that done, I decided to finish the job, and released the script: eudora2evol.

A couple of projects I'm working on just shipped: the RealOne Player and SMILGen. XMLhack covers both of these.

SMIL 2.0 becomes a Recommendation -- Woohoo! This is a pretty substantial revision of the specification that we've been working on for 2 1/2 years. Lots of new goodies in there (animation, transitions, etc.). Should be interesting once the implementations are released....

Ooooo....I just got certified as a "Journeyer". Do-o-n't stop, belie-e-e-vin'! Err....I'm not sure I want to be that kind of Journeyer.

Well, anyway, I just submitted a new version of svg2swf. Fixed a few bugs, did some more damage.

A couple of things going on:

• Just posted info on svg2swf. Converts SVG to Flash, which could be really handy, given how widely supported Flash is. I just did it as a learning exercise for SVG and for Ming
• I'm heading to the London IETF meeting in a couple of weeks (Aug 5-10). Ought to be interesting...I thought I was going to just lurk, but I got pulled in to present XMCL