Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } December 2005

Crochet Danger

I had to laugh at Eve’s link to the story of the weenie who was scared of knit­ting needles (while admit­ting I first saw the link at whump dot com from fol­low­ing XML 2005 Aggreg­ator links). I have a bet­ter story than mere knit­ting needles or even nee­dle­work needles, since all of those have really […]

2005 12 05 Crafts
General
Travel Comments (5)

Singapore Impressions

I was recently in Singa­pore for a Liberty Alli­ance meet­ing. I hadn’t been in Singa­pore for 10 years, so it was inter­est­ing to see what was the same and what was dif­fer­ent. Orch­ard Road was the same, but more so — more West­ern shops, more malls, more hotels. The air con­di­tion­ing in hotels and restaurants, […]

2005 12 04 Travel Comments (5)

Five Years On

“The time has come, the wal­rus said” — not to talk of cab­bages and kings, nor even of seal­ing wax, but to move on and let someone else with fresh ideas take over chair­ing the XML Con­fer­ence Series. XML 2001 was the first con­fer­ence I chaired, XML 2005 the last. It’s been an inter­est­ing journey, […]

Tagged
2005 12 01 Conference Comments (2)