Friday, October 12 2001

Me : What has Aaron been thinking about, recently?

Over lunch, I spent a little time and expanded on yesterday's categories as rss framework. Now, you can view the aforementioned RSS file rendered as XHTML. The URL scheme is as follows : http://aaronland.info/weblog/category/(NAME|ID)/recent. So far, formatting consists of a slightly modified version of Eric van der Vlist's 10-to-xhtml.xsl stylesheet. This is unlikely to change in the near-term and is part of larger aaronland migration issues that have dragging around for most of last year. Alas.

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Dubya : "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before

getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it. ... I mean, people need to be logical." Words to live by.

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IETF : iCalendar DTD Document (xCal)

"This [draft] memo defines how XML can be used to represent iCalendar objects. This memo includes the definition of the XML DTD for a XML document representation of an iCalendar object."

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DevShed : XLink Basics

"It's important to note at this point that XLinks are not expressed as elements, but as element attributes (from the XLink namespace) which can be attached to any XML element; the most important of these is the XLink "type" attribute, which specifies the type of link being defined. The example above uses this attribute to define four types of links: extended links, resources, locators and arcs (more on these later). By allowing any XML element to become an XLink, the XLink specification substantially improves on HTML's current linking mechanism, which only allows the anchor tag to define links. In the example above, the "item", "link" and "arc" XML elements have been converted to XLinks by the addition of specific attributes from the XLink namespace."

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From the Tower of Babel department :

come the Value Chain Markup Language, AccountReceivable-AccountPayable Markup Language and QuickBooks Markup Language. This is not anything I would have normally thought I could be interested in, but I increasingly find myself rolling my own budget/finance tools so...wonk wonk wonk.

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Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.3

Added a PostFromOutline method to post outliner documents as HTML, using Simon Kittle's Text::Outline package.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chimera

| source : web1913 | Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. {Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.] 1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.'' --Milton. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke. | source : wn | Chimera n 1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon [syn: {Chimera}, {Chimaera}] 2: a grotesque product of the imagination [syn: {chimaera}] | source : foldoc | Chimera A modular, {X Window System}-based {World-Wide Web} {browser} for {Unix}. Chimera uses the {Athena} {widget} set so {Motif} is not needed. Chimera supports forms, inline images, {TERM}, {SOCKS}, {proxy server}s, {Gopher}, {FTP}, {HTTP} and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external programs. New {protocol}s can easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for inline images (e.g. {PostScript}). Version 1.60 is available for {(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)}. {Home (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/)} Chimera runs on {Sun} {SPARC} {SunOS} 4.1.x, {IBM} {RS/6000} {AIX} 3.2.5, {Linux} 1.1.x. It should run on anything with {X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler. (1994-11-08)

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