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{ Yearly Archives } 2005

Tungsten Update

Regular readers will remember that I got a Tungsten T2 last year. It worked fine, except for one problem - the digitizer kept drifting, and I had to recalibrate it every couple of days. Eventually the screen started to cycle continuously on an intermittent basis. I tried the tips on the Palm web site, which [...]

Visibility Online

One unexpected but totally welcome side-effect of blogs and instant messaging these days is knowing that people you care about are ok. Just being able to see their names and their postings while the effects of what happened in London sunk in made a big difference to my day. My condolences to all those [...]

London

The bombs in London have proven again that Londoners are resilient, that they have learnt from the WWII blitz and the years of IRA attacks, how to cope with terror that would bring other cities to a screeching halt. And yet, I can’t help but worry what the reactions will be. Will the governments of [...]

The Perfect G&T

My friend Sally has the recipe for the perfect gin and tonic.

XML FAQs

The XML FAQ is one of those web sites that those who’ve been doing XML for a while tend to forget about, until asked to explain some piece of XML that causes large volumes of discourse on xml-dev (such as whether to use elements or attributes). Then it comes in really handy to be able [...]

Picking Papers

We just finished the XML 2005 Planning Committee Selection Meeting, three days at the end of last week. This is one of the fun, albeit exhausting, parts of the conference, when all the would-be speakers have submitted their abstracts, the reviewers have graded them and commented on them, and then the Planning Committee gets to [...]

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