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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

XML 2007 Last-Call Deadline

The XML 2007 talk sub­mis­sion dead­line is loom­ing; there’s only one this year (and it’s this Fri­day, August 31st!), so if you miss it, you miss out. I’m one of the review­ers. If you want a high grade if I’m assigned your paper to review, read these hints on writ­ing good abstracts first. Since the […]

2007 08 30 Conference Comments (0)

Apache and Logrotate

I use apache to serve a few sites from the fire­wall box in the base­ment and for some reason it kept dying on a reg­u­lar basis. This star­ted fairly recently, some time after I set up sep­ar­ate access log files for each of the sites. The error logs showed entries like [Sun Jun 10 06:28:03 2007] […]

2007 08 29 Technology Comments (1)

Knitting and XML

Eve’s XML and knit­ting ana­logy got me think­ing. You can think of a writ­ten knit­ting pat­tern as being the schema, with a set of instruc­tions, just like the schema’s con­tent model. Then each knit­ted item you make that con­forms to that knit­ting pat­tern is like the doc­u­ment instance that con­forms to the schema. Schemas can […]

2007 08 27 Crafts
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Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray

The book­club dis­cussed Oscar Wilde’s The Pic­ture of Dorian Gray. Read­ing this was a reminder that one reason I go to book­club is to be encour­aged to read books I oth­er­wise wouldn’t, and to get more out of them than I can on my own. The Pic­ture of Dorian Gray (Wiki­pe­dia review) is the story of […]

2007 08 16 Books Comments (5)

Virus Spam

Spams car­ry­ing vir­uses aren’t any­thing new but every now and again some­thing comes into my email box that is a bit dif­fer­ent. Like this one. Dear user of textuality.com, mail sys­tem admin­is­trator of textuality.com would like to let you know the fol­low­ing. We have detec­ted that your account was used to send a huge amount of […]

2007 08 15 Technology Comments (0)

City Mayhem

Today was my turn to take the boy to his soc­cer camp; it also turned out to be the day after the police shot someone on a main street. The afore­said street was com­pletely closed down for a block which caused a cer­tain amount of traffic havoc. I got a close-up look at the deserted […]

2007 08 14 General
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