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		<outline text="Today's song: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/song-187.html&quot;&gt;Lean on Me&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;So just call on me brother, when you need a hand. We all need somebody to lean on. I just might have a problem that you'd understand. We all need somebody to lean on.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pipetree.com/jabber/jrpc/&quot;&gt;DJ Adams&lt;/a&gt; has an implementation of Jabber-RPC in Perl. &lt;i&gt;Bing!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://greasypeso.ass-clown.com/xmlrpc/&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Czerniak&lt;/a&gt; has AppleScript connecting to Blogger."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tswoam.co.uk/index.php?n_go=14&quot;&gt;Simon Kittle&lt;/a&gt; did a Live Journal version of the Blogger API. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnewsarchive.userland.com/1999/08/23&quot;&gt;On this day&lt;/a&gt; two years ago Blogger launched. &lt;i&gt;Still excellent!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="This morning there's a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloggerDev/message/225&quot;&gt;method&lt;/a&gt; in the Blogger API, blogger.getRecentPosts."/>
		<outline text="Updated: &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/blogger#changes82301&quot;&gt;Connecting with Blogger&lt;/a&gt;. Added glue to connect to blogger.getRecentPosts."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xml-rpc/message/3457&quot;&gt;Announcement&lt;/a&gt; on the XML-RPC list of work on Jabber-RPC."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/money/tech/2001-08-23-exodus.htm&quot;&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Cash-strapped Exodus Communications said  Wednesday that it is open to takeover offers after three board members abruptly  quit the Web-hosting pioneer for 'personal reasons.'&quot;"/>
		<outline text="My Jabber handle is daveuserland\@jabber.com. But please don't use it unless it's absolutely necessary. I'm still not an IM guy. I'm going to use this account for testing of software that communicates over the Jabber network."/>
		<outline text="WebReference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column58/&quot;&gt;Hiermenus Go Forth XXII&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi&quot;&gt;RESTwiki&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Are you using XML-RPC or SOAP (in an RPC way), and wonder how you might use REST instead?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Microsoft's domination of the Web">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,540894,00.html&quot;&gt;Nick Denton&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Microsoft's domination of the web has become first inevitable and, now, even convenient. Critics such as Dave Winer, an independent software developer and the opinionated author of the Scripting.com website, are isolated. And pragmatists, such as myself, have learned to love Microsoft.&quot; "/>
			<outline text="He goes on to say &quot;Microsoft has long had a hostile relationship with independent developers&quot; -- which is true. And Nick, people wrote articles like yours about IBM as the Apple II and Visicalc were coming in the back door. Yes, Microsoft kicked Netscape's butt, but that was easy since Netscape went it alone. Today there are a lot more programmers outside of Microsoft than inside. "/>
			<outline text="Internet.Com: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_871631,00.html&quot;&gt;Microsoft Supported by Dead People&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="PS: Thanks to the Guardian for the link! &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
			<outline text="PPS: It's darkest before dawn."/>
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		<outline text="Living rooms">
			<outline text="I finished the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=0K4HJKFX9J&amp;mscssid=V68XP0MV6A1H9P99VL4G19DAUFUJ9DC7&amp;isbn=0743203984&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; on the flu epidemic of 1918. Learned something important. Before the mid-1800s death was far more commonplace. Epidemics would sweep through cities, often wiping out half the population. New people would come from the countryside to take their place."/>
			<outline text="The idea of a &quot;living room&quot; is relatively new too. Reader's Digest suggested that we rename our parlors, which were used to display the dead before burial, to give it a new purpose -- for the living. If I had been around in those days, running a weblog, I would have supported this idea. "/>
			<outline text="So how to apply this idea at the dawn of the 21st century? Instead of thinking of independent developers as dead, we could think of them as living. We might get some new software that way. (We would, because it already exists, people just have to open their eyes.) "/>
			<outline text="Back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,540894,00.html&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;, he says Microsoft is the driving force behind Web services. Wrong. Scripting News has facilitated far more open, deployed, and public web services than all the BigCo's combined. It will always be that way because this technology is about choice, not lock-in. No matter how hard they try, unless Microsoft gets behind developer freedom in a serious way, they have as little chance of gaining traction with developers as IBM did with the Micro Channel Architecture."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/07/06/theMicroChannelArchitecture&quot;&gt;6/6/01&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;We simply didn't understand what they were talking about.&quot;"/>
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