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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/04/17/theWebIsAWritingEnvironment&quot;&gt;The Web is a Writing Environment&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="I'll be in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reboot.dk/&quot;&gt;Copenhagen&lt;/a&gt; on May 23, no doubt &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$693&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; shortly thereafter. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Wow, I know I did good when I get a link from both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evhead.com/&quot;&gt;Evan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomalak.org/&quot;&gt;Lawrence&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks guys! It means a lot to me."/>
		<outline text="But you wouldn't believe the pushback I'm getting from the last sentence of today's piece from people who write for print pubs. I stand by it. It's called O-P-I-N-I-O-N. Your mileage may vary. It's possible. Maybe."/>
		<outline text="BTW, before you flame me, look at the definition of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=integrity&quot;&gt;integrity&lt;/a&gt;. I like the third branch. &quot;The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.&quot; "/>
		<outline text="Integrity is not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=goodness&quot;&gt;goodness&lt;/a&gt;, although some people think it is. It's got a deeper quality to it. "/>
		<outline text="John Perry Barlow, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/barlows_lyrics.html&quot;&gt;lyricist&lt;/a&gt; himself, says, about the famous last sentence: &quot;This one goes in my quote file. Obvious, but very tight code nonetheless.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Thanks!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://glennf.weblogs.com/2001/04/17&quot;&gt;Glenn writes poetry&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Deep in the heart of venture capital winter, Dave sees millions of fires connected one to the other, blazing through the night. Will our flames warm the information planet, or ignite wildfires engulfing the world?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5631679.html?tag=lh&quot;&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;These are people who are writing for their friends,&quot; Bricklin said. &quot;No one's going to win any Pulitzer prizes.&quot; "/>
		<outline text="&lt;i&gt;Speak for yourself Dan, I plan to win a Pulitzer.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$320&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="2/18/95: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1995/02/18/billionsofwebsites&quot;&gt;Billions of Websites&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Every writer can participate in the Web. Someday, very soon, I believe, every writer will.&quot; "/>
		<outline text="OK, it depends what you mean by &quot;very soon.&quot; &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Today's song: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/A9F7E16C8C41755D48256896000EADBC&quot;&gt;Dangling Conversation&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amk.ca/python/2.1/&quot;&gt;What's new&lt;/a&gt; in Python 2.1?"/>
		<outline text="I spoke with Cayce Ullman at ActZero who &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.actzero.com/soap/SOAPpy.html&quot;&gt;released&lt;/a&gt; a Python SOAP 1.1 implementation last night."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://validator.soapware.org/&quot;&gt;Look at all&lt;/a&gt; the SOAP validations. BTW, our validator has been updated as the interop work proceeds. It's a quick way to find out if your app is in the ballpark, before embarking on the more time-consuming matrix tests. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/17/0455232&quot;&gt;SlashDot&lt;/a&gt;: How long can the free services stay free?"/>
		<outline text="Register: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/18318.html&quot;&gt;Yahoo gets new boss&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?14373&quot;&gt;Jeff Barr sends&lt;/a&gt; a pointer to a thread on Fark.Com where people dream up signs at the Canadian border. I haven't had this good a laugh in quite a while. Lots of funny stuff."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve.bush.org/pf04/pg000406.html&quot;&gt;Steve Bush&lt;/a&gt; is designing a new processor called The Wiz."/>
		<outline text="Tuesday? Lunch with a programmer!">
			<outline text="It's Tuesday and that means only one thing. Take a programmer to lunch. Give your friend the programmer a hug, a meal, some fresh air, and listen. Ask how it's going. What do you think of this or that. How could it all work better. Listen. There's a mind in there. Don't be afraid. Programmers can be friendly if you just give them a chance. "/>
			<outline text="I had lunch with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herring.com/index.asp?layout=column_cod_a&amp;channel=80000008&quot;&gt;Rafe Needleman&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herring.com/&quot;&gt;Red Herring&lt;/a&gt;, outdoors at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$351&quot;&gt;Parkside Grille&lt;/a&gt; in Portola Valley. I didn't get a hug, but he did pay. Nice meeting. We talked about dotcoms, writing, the old days (he was reviews editor at InfoWorld in the late 80s) and other stuff. Today the weather was so gorgeous. T-shirt weather. Funky music walking weather. Yeah. Still a hint of perfume in the air."/>
			<outline text="BTW, all programmers want to tell you How It Works. In excruciating detail. As if you cared. Try to be patient. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
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