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		<outline text="Good morning programmers and designers."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glennf.com/gmblog/archives/00000069.html&quot;&gt;Glenn Fleishman&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The courts are our only defense against executive power that runs amok.&quot;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:32:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.ne.mediaone.net/siracusa/proposal.html&quot;&gt;Interesting discussion&lt;/a&gt; of filesystem-level metadata and Mac OS X. In a cross-platform environment there really is no choice but to indicate file type and creator using the file's extension. The Mac did it right in the beginning, and stored the file type and creator in the file system and filenames were entirely up to the user. But the rest of the world wasn't so hip. If I were making the call at Apple I'd do what they did, punt on the feature, say uncle to Windows and Unix. But some Mac users aren't going along with it." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 22:40:22 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Adam Curry's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.curry.com/2001/12/09#bootstrappingOutlookhotmail&quot;&gt;mind&lt;/a&gt; is going amok about email." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:06:39 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.ez.no/article/articleview/53/1/42/&quot;&gt;eZ systems&lt;/a&gt; XML-RPC for PHP, C++. 55 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations&quot;&gt;implementations&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 20:15:08 GMT"/>
		<outline text="NY Times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/&quot;&gt;The Year in Ideas&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;No permalink?&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:38:52 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Word of the day: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=investigate&quot;&gt;Investigate&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;To observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically.&quot;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 15:11:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48920,00.html&quot;&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;At the heart of Segway's detection system are solid-state, silicon gyroscopes that are about the size of the tip of a pencil.&quot;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:04:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="It almost goes without saying that I think Joel is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html&quot;&gt;indulging&lt;/a&gt; in premature congratulation. A little pushback from a friendly competitor. If Joel doesn't support XML, his users are going to suffer at least a little lock-in. Not everyone in Silicon Valley eats at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buckswoodside.com/stories/korean.shtml&quot;&gt;Buck's&lt;/a&gt; and attends Stanford seminars. And Joel, some people &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; like editing Web pages in the browser. It's very convenient and easy. Software design is about trade-offs, lots of compromises, hope you find a sweet spot. I've said it many times -- editing in the browser is the best way to do it, and the worst way. But editing in another app has difficulties too. Wouldn't it be great if the browser vendors took editing seriously? That would be the best of both worlds." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:13:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The race is on for the heart of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=segway&quot;&gt;Segway on Google&lt;/a&gt;. Paul Nakada's &lt;a href=&quot;http://segway.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;Segway News&lt;/a&gt; is #3. It's surprising that the #1 link isn't related to the scooter. I suspect that will change. I'm rooting for Paul's site, so I linked to it to the left. Google thinks one of those links is worth a lot. Even though Paul's site is new I think he'll stick with it, he's a longtime blogger, and a friend of UserLand. &lt;i&gt;Go Paul!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:28:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="BTW, just for fun, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=john+doerr&quot;&gt;now&lt;/a&gt; I've got the #2 link for &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/02/01/johnDoerrOnABicycle&quot;&gt;John Doerr&lt;/a&gt;. I'm going for #1. Back in the old days of Silicon Valley, this might have been considered a &quot;funding event.&quot; &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:32:53 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Demon of the Year" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:17:07 GMT">
			<outline text="I've started my 2001 awards list. It's coming together nicely. I expect to spend a few more days and then announce the nominees. Now there are nine categories. I'm sure there will be some arguments about who's in which category. Oh la. I'm having fun with it. Questions. When should we open voting? How long should the voting stay open? And if you didn't get nominated in 2001, there's always 2002." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:38:56 GMT"/>
			<outline text="My favorite category so far is &quot;Demon of the Year.&quot; Microsoft of course is nominated, for Smart Tags, as is Amazon for patent abuse. The US Department of Justice is nominated twice, once for their settlement with Microsoft, and a special call-out to Attorney General John Ashcroft for undermining free speech. Luckily for me, Scripting News will not be nominated in any category, so I can't self-nominate for Demon of 2001." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:14:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;i&gt;&quot;It's even worse than it appears.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:23:23 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Awards criteria" created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:41:50 GMT">
			<outline text="As I've put together the list I've also taken some notes on what makes a weblog award-winning, imho. Here are those notes." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:41:54 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Sites must update regularly without huge lapses."/>
			<outline text="Some longevity, or an expectation of longevity. I don't want to recommend sites that I think might go away soon."/>
			<outline text="They're sites &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; find interesting. No claim of an exhaustive search is made."/>
			<outline text="What makes a site interesting for me is that they have interesting links, the author has something to say, I get a sweaty mouse finger when I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;see&lt;/a&gt; that they've updated, and it doesn't seem to matter if I like them or not. &quot;It hurts so good.&quot; I'm going to nominate some people who aren't friends. Let's see if they win."/>
			<outline text="BTW, the awards don't have a name yet. The Bloggies? Scripting News Awards. Hmmm. Have to give this some thought. We also need to have a virtual trophy for people to put on their sites (if they choose to -- I would). I'm graphics-impaired. Help is appreciated, with credit of course." created="Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:44:15 GMT"/>
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