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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/news/2001/12/27&quot;&gt;Frontier News&lt;/a&gt;: The aggregator from My.UserLand and Radio UserLand will be part of the Frontier 7.1 release." created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:29:16 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The following post is neither informational or normative." created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:53:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spryn.com/words/2001/12/27.html&quot;&gt;Robert Sprynn&lt;/a&gt; admits that he might hate Pennsylvania. I know what he means. It's a dirty overcast state, without much to say for itself, wedged between New York and Ohio (another dim place) -- they have two baseball teams in Pennsylvania, both National League, undistinguished and kind of overcast and dirty, hardly worth mentioning. The only place I can think of that's less distinguished than Pensylvania is Maryland." created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:31:18 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://sl.manilasites.com/&quot;&gt;I just noticed&lt;/a&gt; that the Consulate General of Sri Lanka has a Manila site. It's a weblog. I bet we could have a good Scripting News dinner in Sri Lanka. Do they have good beaches? Do they have good food?" created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:21:15 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ce.html&quot;&gt;CIA Factbook&lt;/a&gt; page for Sri Lanka. &quot;Slightly larger than West Virginia.&quot; That's an approachable size. " created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:22:53 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Acclaimed science fiction author &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Biography.html&quot;&gt;Arthur C Clarke&lt;/a&gt; has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956. &quot;It's India without the hassle.&quot;" created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:25:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Why can't work always be as easy as it is this week? I find it very relaxing. I can take a break or a walk and still get a huge amount of work done in each session. It's not that the phone doesn't ring. I spent at least two hours gabbin today. What is it about this week that makes work so easy and satisfying?" created="Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:44:40 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grandcentral.com/developers/index.html&quot;&gt;Grand Central&lt;/a&gt; has some developer kits." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:36:46 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/12/27/virusemail.gif&quot;&gt;A new idea&lt;/a&gt;. A virus aimed at geeks. Cute." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:51:27 GMT"/>
		<outline text="John Robb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://jrobb.userland.com/2001/12/27.html&quot;&gt;picks&lt;/a&gt; for top trends of 2001." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:41:22 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://jake.editthispage.com/2001/12/27&quot;&gt;Jake&lt;/a&gt; wants to know what x = [0] * (2 * 2) means, in Python." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:15:19 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://inessential.com/2001/12/27.html&quot;&gt;Brent Simmons&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Email is no longer reliable.&quot;" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:32:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetwowayweb.com/discuss/msgReader$225&quot;&gt;What were&lt;/a&gt; the big trends of 2001?" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:32:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Clarification and progress report on yesterday's &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/12/26#l6864cb4a81ae898ece811925adc6df22&quot;&gt;call&lt;/a&gt; to Unix gearheads. We want the functionality of crypt in UserTalk so we can write Apache password files from Frontier. &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1119&quot;&gt;UserTalk&lt;/a&gt; is Frontier's built-in scripting language. It's an Algol-like language, much like Python, JavaScript and Java, but it came a few years before. Jake is working on converting the Python version of crypt to run in our environment. " created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:20:40 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1995/05/09/beingfree&quot;&gt;5/9/95&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I had originally wanted to call the language Juicy, because it is C-like, and because both Doug Baron, and I are Jewish. But decorum prevailed and we went with the more predictable (and boring!) UserTalk name.&quot;" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:27:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/unclealb.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/12/27/uncleAlbert.gif&quot; height=&quot;99&quot; width=&quot;75&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;20&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1999/12/27/4DaysToY2k&quot;&gt;Two years ago today&lt;/a&gt; we were counting down to Y2K. Time named Einstein the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/timePersonOfTheCentury.gif&quot;&gt;Person of the Century&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Our minds can travel to other galaxies, to the first moments of creation, not from belief or emotion or faith, but from thought. This is true power!&quot;" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:52:47 GMT"/>
		<outline text="NY Times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/technology/27WEB.html&quot;&gt;In Rewritten Internet Fables, the Late Bird Gets the Worm&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:16:51 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Walt Mossberg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20011227.html&quot;&gt;Microsoft had a good year, at expense of customers&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:04:29 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://shanson.editthispage.com/1999/12/27&quot;&gt;Christopher Hanson&lt;/a&gt; was born two years ago today." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:06:56 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Bootstraps and corner-turns" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:45:08 GMT">
			<outline text="This year we spent a lot of time on corner-turns after lots of bootstraps last year." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:45:13 GMT"/>
			<outline text="The two concepts are quite related. I'm going to go take a walk and formulate the relationship and then write about it later today or tomorrow." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:45:31 GMT"/>
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