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		<outline text="Microsoft's instant messaging &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/Rvp.htm&quot;&gt;protocol&lt;/a&gt; is XML over HTTP."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathworld.wolfram.com/&quot;&gt;What's going on&lt;/a&gt; at Eric Weissteins's MathWorld? According to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreilly.com/news/treasure_1100.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on oreilly.com, he &quot;turned the content of the site into a book, The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, published by CRC Press. In the process, CRC Press acquired the copyright ownership of that material.&quot; Then they told him to take the material off the Web. "/>
		<outline text="Interesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://salesforce.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
		<outline text="I added a note to the What is Scripting News? &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/whatIsScriptingNews#usingNetscape4&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; for people who use Netscape 4. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/users/frank@fmcpherson.com/html/directory/index.html&quot;&gt;Frank McPherson has&lt;/a&gt; an HTML Directory done with Radio UserLand."/>
		<outline text="More referer pages: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/stats/referers&quot;&gt;DaveNet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://docserver.userland.com/stats/referers&quot;&gt;DocServer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/stats/referers&quot;&gt;UserLand&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://joel.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;Joel's site&lt;/a&gt; is lookin good!"/>
		<outline text="Fuel-efficient luxury car?">
			<outline text="Talking with my mom on the phone today, she's like me in a lot of ways (surprised?), an evangelical sort of person who wants to make a difference. "/>
			<outline text="She complains about her eight-year-old Honda Civic, so I say, hey Mom, how about getting a new car? Something's always breaking on the old one, now it's the glove compartment. Who ever heard of a glove compartment breaking? Anyway."/>
			<outline text="She wants a new car, and is willing to spend up to $50K, but it must be fuel-efficient. Makes sense, why should leather seats or a nice stereo make a car less efficient? It also has to be automatic transmission and suitable for city driving. "/>
			<outline text="So please send me an email if you know of a fuel-efficient luxury car."/>
			<outline text="Postscript: People like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/details/mazda01millenia/index.html&quot;&gt;Mazda Millenia&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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		<outline text="The anti-weblog?">
			<outline text="A new idea I'm exploring -- an anti-weblog weblog, one that accumulates information in an organized fashion &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; does it chronologically. "/>
			<outline text="We've gotten so focused on the Web as a temporal medium, now perhaps it makes sense to think of it as a timeless one? "/>
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		<outline text="Cross-cultural Unix?">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://udell.roninhouse.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/udellThumb.gif&quot; height=&quot;29&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I had a long phone talk yesterday with &lt;a href=&quot;http://udell.roninhouse.com/&quot;&gt;Jon Udell&lt;/a&gt;. It's been too long since we talked. Jon wants to know why the Unix world doesn't have an integration architecture like Microsoft's &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1036&quot;&gt;COM&lt;/a&gt;. I've been asking the same question for years. It's not that the technology is so complex, it's not. And some easy first steps are possible, like providing a common interface for applications to integrate scripting. "/>
			<outline text="I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1998/03/23/perlXML&quot;&gt;about this&lt;/a&gt; in 1998. &quot;Just as the push to do RPC over HTTP via XML has the potential of getting COM, CORBA and Apple Events to talk to each other, an open cross-platform scripting architecture holds the promise of bringing together cultures from every nook and cranny of the software business, from mainframes to handhelds, from graphics people to the folks who keep the Hubble telescope humming.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="So, after sleeping on it, I think there's the answer. Unix is not cross-cultural, as a community it's very insular, and each scripting language is its own culture, and is similarly insular. So they solve the same problems over and over. Apparently knowing how to script a Web site in Perl doesn't help you learn how to do the same in Java, or Tcl, or whatever, the wheel has to be reinvented for every common language. "/>
			<outline text="But certainly there must be some group of serious Unix developers who recognize the value in breaking down walls, it's a large enough world now that that must be possible?"/>
			<outline text="On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2000/11/03&quot;&gt;current mail page&lt;/a&gt;, Jan Gray, formerly of Microsoft, explains that insularity is a feature of programmers, not any specific flavor of programmer. &lt;i&gt;I agree.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
			<outline text="Joel Spolsky, also an ex-softie, has &lt;a href=&quot;http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$133&quot;&gt;his own view&lt;/a&gt; of Microsoft architectures. &quot;Five years after Altavista went live, and two years after Larry Page and Sergei Brin actually invented a radically better search engine, Microsoft is pretending like there's no way to search on the Internet and they're going to solve this problem for us.&quot;"/>
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