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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/2001/04/11&quot; title=&quot;Arf arf! Ahhh choo. I am The XML-RPC Man. And I have a call for you!&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/XMLRPCMAN.gif&quot; height=&quot;120&quot; width=&quot;123&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1584&quot;&gt;Looking&lt;/a&gt; for the Visicalc or MacWrite-MacPaint of XML-RPC?"/>
		<outline text="In progress: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/stories/storyReader$74&quot;&gt;Uses for our XML technology&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dendro.com/dotcommunist/2001/04/11&quot;&gt;Sean Gallagher&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;There's something almost comically futile about trying to market XML software.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/blackholebrain/behindthecurtain/websize/00.jpg&quot;&gt;Mike Donnelan&lt;/a&gt; did the XML-RPC man &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/XMLRPCMAN.gif&quot;&gt;graphic&lt;/a&gt;. We have an informal system -- I can run any graphic from Mike's site and link &lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/2001/04/11&quot;&gt;back&lt;/a&gt; to him. That's how a graphics-impaired fellow like me gets such excellent graphics. I was so inspired by Mike's graphic that I came up with a song for The Man. It goes like this. &quot;Arf arf! Ahhh choo. I am The XML-RPC Man. And I have a call for you!&quot; He's a super-hero, for sure, but he barks like a dog with a cold. A modern super-hero, warts and all."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://jake.soapware.org/2001/04/11&quot;&gt;Jake's SOAP Journal&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Apparently 6.96799993515015 == 6.968, through some sort of logic I know nothing about.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officeclippy.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/paperClipGoodbyeFuckOff.gif&quot; height=&quot;78&quot; width=&quot;52&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/technology/11ADCO.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;A new campaign celebrates the demise of Clippy, Microsoft's obnoxious on-screen paper clip.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Coool!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="I was emailing with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=charles+fitzgerald+microsoft&quot;&gt;Charles Fitzgerald&lt;/a&gt; at Microsoft today. I've known Charles for quite a few years, I think of him as Microsoft's PR gunslinger, and he does that job well. One of Charles' frustrations is that he has never been able to get a reporter to run this quote. &quot;You can't spell LARRY ELLISON without L, I, A, and R.&quot;  Anyway, Charles sent me the pointer to the Times article linked above, and I told him it was a great idea and would be hugely popular. It's not as if everyone doesn't already know that Office is bloated and the paper-clip is not user-friendly, but user-humiliating. Then he pointed out that Gates uses self-deprecating humor effectively in his speeches, and I agreed, referencing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://volksweb.relitech.com/funstuff/gates3.mov&quot;&gt;video with Ballmer and Gates&lt;/a&gt; in the car nodding and humming to the nerdy tune. Then I thought, wow, when we get interop in SOAP and want to market it to the press, after they've read the Markoff article (which they all did, apparently) we can do a video with Gates and Ballmer trying to stuff me into the trunk of the car, and me refusing to go. (I'm bigger than Gates, not sure about Ballmer.)"/>
		<outline text="I think Charles also came up with the memorable NOISE acronym, which stood for Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and Everyone else."/>
		<outline text="Thanks for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/results/dave@userland.com/howAmIDoing&quot;&gt;vote of confidence&lt;/a&gt;. I know you guys aren't an easy sell, remembering as I do (and often cite) that Tim O'Reilly beat me in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/results/dave@userland.com/aPopularityContest&quot;&gt;popularity contest&lt;/a&gt; here last summer. I consider that a badge of honor. I like to be appreciated, for sure, I'm just human, but I like it even better that so many people keep coming back even when they don't agree with everything I say or do. That means you have minds and make your own decisions. Those are the kinds of people I like to work with."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://peterme.com/&quot;&gt;Peter Merholz&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Hypertext creators tend to have Extremely Noble intents for their technology.&quot; Correct. But don't dismiss TBL or Doug Engelbart so quickly. Both see beyond the limits of current technology. Engelbart gave us a complete roadmap of the development of PC technology way before any of it happened. The Web &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; augment human intelligence. It can do more. We are building apps that do more for people, as TBL encourages us to do. Dreaming about the future is a good thing, it give us ideas for things we can do today."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/aBusinessModelForYahoo.gif&quot;&gt;A business&lt;/a&gt; model for Yahoo?"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23654,00.html&quot;&gt;Ooooh&lt;/a&gt; what's that smell?"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=484&quot;&gt;Dr Dobbs interviews&lt;/a&gt; Microsoft's Andrew Layman. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0011&quot;&gt;Jon Udell&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;For Web developers, supporting the Netscape browser has become a thankless chore.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eazel.com/downloads/reef/reef.pdf&quot;&gt;Eazel published&lt;/a&gt; a whitepaper describing Reef. &lt;i&gt;PDF.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/news/553032.asp&quot;&gt;MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;China said Wednesday it would free the detained crew of a US spy plane after receiving a letter from President Bush saying he was 'very sorry' that an American spy plane was forced to land in Chinese territory after a crash that apparently killed one of China’s fighter pilots.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="DaveNet was #1 again &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/mostReadSitesYesterday&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, but by not such a wide margin. I like the way it feels to be #1. Look at Radio and XML-RPC climbing the chart. Nice. Gotta get Frontier and Manila up there too. "/>
		<outline text="I bought the issue of Wired with the profile in it, got as far as the table of contents where they call me a &quot;dead software guy&quot; and didn't go any further. Honestly, I'm afraid to read what they think. The &quot;irascible gadfly&quot; thing is still reverberating within me. Dead software guy? Hey I'm still diggin, thank you very much. It's a good technique to get honorable people to shut up, say they're irritating you, in the NY Times, for god's sake, and then say they're dead. Wow. I'll tell you what -- this irascible dead software guy doesn't &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to irritate anyone. If people would stop behaving like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18238.html&quot;&gt;greedy idiots&lt;/a&gt;, I'd be sweetness and light every fucking day. (I'm starting to sound like Dennis Miller or John Dvorak. Go figure.)"/>
		<outline text="Hold on, Marc Canter, my friend, says that the &quot;dead software guy&quot; thing is a quote of me talking about me. Oy. Marc adds &quot;Us multimedia guys were really disappointed with HTML.&quot; "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/howAmIDoing&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: How am I doing?"/>
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