CNet goes it alone

From ongoing [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/14/CNET-nuts] comes this bit of news... CNet has decided that RSS 0.9, 1.9, and 2.0 was not good enough, nor was Atom! They rolled there own [http://export.cnet.com/html/export/download/dlhtf-download.com.

ecto for Windows

A loved product by anyone who uses it on the Mac platform has made its way to Windows: ecto for Windows [http://www.kung-foo.tv/blog/archives/000864.php]> "Joi and me are very happy to announce the release of a beta of a Windows port of ecto

Where Did Leo Go?

Leo of LeoTV [TechTV] has some people called it, has left the building. It was last week when my wife asked where Leo was, I replied "He must be on vacation again" I assumed this because my RSS feed reader showed nothing of his departure, and I subscribe

BitTorrent and RSS

So over the long weekend I've been working fairly heavily on a python program/script that downloaded new torrents automatically. I used the enclosure [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/bitTorrent] spec for RSS 2.0 and the RSS feeds from legaltorrents.com [http://www.legaltorrents.com/] that

Ordering from Starbucks

Ordering a drink from Starbucks can be quite the task. Shiv put together this helpful PDF [http://ddll.sdf1.net/files/starbucks.pdf] file to help you out in the process. BTW: I typically order a [personal] to go no-fat [no water] extra hot grande tazo chia latte, but since

Webloggers at Microsoft are being controlled by PR

Scoble was asked [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/04/08.html#a7187] "[are] webloggers at Microsoft are being controlled by PR. Er, told to talk about certain issues." This is a common question I would guess for the just shy of 500 Microsoft bloggers [http://blogs.msdn.

Tim talks up blogs, instead of XML

Tim Bray [http://www.xml.com/pub/au/10] (Tech Director at Sun) writes in his blog (ongoing [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/]) regarding his ever increasing role as an evangelist for blogs [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/08/CIOFunnies].> "I got an email

Mac OS X Trojan Warning

Well its about time I guess... The first trojan for OS X has been released.> "Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an .mp3 extension, rather than showing the file as an application, leading users to believe that they can double-click the file to

The Fix is In

An article [http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/08/HNraidintel_1.html] posted today at Infoworld [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/] brings to light something that could prove to be even more interesting than the DOJ/EU case against Microsoft.> "A spokesman for the FTC confirmed the early

You Can't Do That On Television

[http://ddll.sdf1.net/images/alanis2.jpg] X-Star of 'You Can't Do That On Television [http://www.ycdtotv.com]' , Alanis Morissette, did just that during the Juno's this past weekend. Why mention it so late, because it was only yesterday that Shannon and I