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<body><outline text="If you are designing web sites or web applications for the Apple iPhone, you ought to look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/2007/12/anti_aliasing_on_the_iphone&quot;&gt;John Gruber's post&lt;/a&gt; on typeface availability and anti-aliasing. That is one thing that is nice about the iPhone (and presumably the iPod touch) - unlike, say, my RAZR, fonts exist." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:39:07 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ihatephp.net/&quot;&gt;ihatephp.net&lt;/a&gt; aggregates all your Twittered hate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://php.net&quot;&gt;PHP&lt;/a&gt;. I've tried to start a tagging pattern, by appending the word love or hate to language names. Hence &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/tommorris/pythonlove&quot;&gt;pythonlove&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/tommorris/rubylove&quot;&gt;rubylove&lt;/a&gt; and - most importantly - &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/tommorris/javahate&quot;&gt;javahate&lt;/a&gt;. Also, if one ever finds oneself with an unwanted erection, you can always think of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/&quot;&gt;Web Services Architecture&lt;/a&gt;, a document known to cause impotence and severe lack of REST." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:18:24 GMT"/><outline text="I'm not sure there are words to describe the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/are_you_nerdy_enough_to_handle.php&quot;&gt;utter, irredemable nerdiness of this video&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:50:48 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://swig.networkedplanet.com/special.html&quot;&gt;Links have been posted to slides from&lt;/a&gt; the UK SWIG special event." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:29:32 GMT"/><outline text="I love hypertext. I am a Person. So is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000315.html&quot;&gt;Joe Triple&lt;/a&gt;. From Resource to Thing to Person - it's like evolution all over again." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:07:45 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=30&quot;&gt;Stephen Fry&lt;/a&gt; nominates Tim Berners-Lee for the greatest living Englishman - but more interestingly, gets a mention of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab&quot;&gt;Tabulator&lt;/a&gt; in the article." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:06:54 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://2007.xmlconference.org/event/2/public/content/links&quot;&gt;Coverage of XML 2007&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:03:35 GMT"/><outline text="I'm stunned that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/sherri-shepherd-doesnt-g_n_75292.html&quot;&gt;people this stupid can vote&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:39:04 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://iandavis.com/blog/2007/12/303-asymmetry&quot;&gt;Ian Davis&lt;/a&gt; has blogged about the ongoing Description vs. Content discussion in Semantic Web circles. It's all status codes, hashes and other assorted Web Architecture madness. If &lt;acronym title=&quot;HyperText Markup Language&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 5 doesn't implement profile, it looks like we are going to have to come up with other solutions. An HTTP Profile header is one of them." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:34:36 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Lachlan Hunt&lt;/a&gt; has a post at &lt;a href=&quot;http://alistapart.com&quot;&gt;A List Apart&lt;/a&gt; on the benefits of &lt;acronym title=&quot;HyperText Markup Language&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 5. I still think that it's a phony application of pragmatism and the Pareto principle to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/05/15#When:08:46:09&quot;&gt;exclude the profile attribute&lt;/a&gt;. That's the major stumbling block for me. Fix that and I'll be more than happy to start using &lt;acronym&gt;HTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 5's &lt;acronym title=&quot;Extensible Markup Language&quot;&gt;XML&lt;/acronym&gt; syntax." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:14:04 GMT"/><outline text="A &lt;a href=&quot;http://mondoglobo.ning.com/group/questionauthority/forum/topic/show?id=1509099%3ATopic%3A2937&quot;&gt;large list&lt;/a&gt; has been published showing how the Bush administration have grossly increased government power and undermined civil liberties. Don't worry, you can always go and &lt;a href=&quot;http://omg.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; rev=&quot;vote-against&quot;&gt;read about celebrities afterwards&lt;/a&gt; if it's too much trouble to worry about freedoms lost." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:08:10 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottjohnson/sets/72157601200807582/&quot;&gt;56 Geek Archetypes&lt;/a&gt;. Which are you? I definitely fall into the Apple, Portable, Photo, MMO, Code and Book categories." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:42:22 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/353/&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; has an incredibly nerdy Python-related comic." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:42:14 GMT"/>
<outline text="A future for LaTeX" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/latex-goes-ajax/&quot;&gt;Victoria J.K. Lamburn&lt;/a&gt; found an interesting application called &lt;a href=&quot;http://latexlab.org&quot;&gt;LaTeX Lab&lt;/a&gt; - an online LaTeX editor. It's cool that people are still working with LaTeX, even though I can't stand the idea of writing raw LaTeX by hand. (If the people who hate writing markup by hand saw writing LaTeX by hand, they'd be stunned, I think).&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="I used to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lyx.org/&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;LyX&lt;/a&gt; on my Mac for writing essays and also my monster, deadline-addled dissertation. Since reformatting my Mac, I haven't reinstalled it (it's a pain to install), but it's really a great system for academic writing - mostly because of BibTeX being one of the few bibliography systems that doesn't suck. It's complex, sure. I've written my own BibTeX style templates (I treasure tom.bst which contains all my personal bibliographic rules). It'd be nice if someone could create a LaTeX/BibTeX replacement that used &lt;acronym title=&quot;Extensible Markup Language&quot;&gt;XML&lt;/acronym&gt;, &lt;acronym title=&quot;Extensible Stylesheet Language&quot;&gt;XSL&lt;/acronym&gt; or even &lt;acronym title=&quot;Extensible HyperText Markup Language&quot;&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt; with a smattering of &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org&quot;&gt;microformats&lt;/a&gt; and Semantic Web data appraoches. The hCite efforts and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bibliontology.com&quot;&gt;Bibliontology&lt;/a&gt; stuff seems to be going in that direction.&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="I look forward to basically a webby way of writing academic papers (even though I don't write academic papers anymore) - just as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/&quot;&gt;S5&lt;/a&gt; has made a webby way of doing PowerPoint-style presentations using &lt;acronym&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt;, &lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheets&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; and JavaScript. This is where &quot;word processors&quot; like Word and Google Docs go wrong. Just because you put words on paper, doesn't mean you are doing it for the same purpose. Writing a dissertation and writing a birthday card are &lt;em&gt;different tasks&lt;/em&gt; and should have different tools.&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/><outline text="I'm helping someone with an essay at the moment, and I've suggested to them that they use a version control system like &lt;a href=&quot;http://git.or.cz&quot;&gt;Git&lt;/a&gt; to keep track of changes they make to their work. Now, if you were writing a short letter, a version control system would be unnecessary. But document-focused version control is something I think is quite important and, if I were to write something book-length like a novel or doctoral dissertation, I would use in a flash. Similarly, if I were writing something that length, I'd not use any kind of word processor like Word or Google Docs. Too much like toys. I'd use an &lt;acronym&gt;XML&lt;/acronym&gt; editor, have a RELAX NG schema and adapt the schema to the document as I write it. Then I'd use &lt;acronym&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; or &lt;acronym&gt;XSL&lt;/acronym&gt; to turn it into the finished product. Overkill? No way. I prefer to call it &quot;doing it properly&quot; - I try to do security properly, and I would try to do academic writing properly." created="Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:41 GMT"/></outline></body>
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