http://www.aquarionics.com/category/intertwingularity en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/25/LoFi I am a qualified sysadmin. Whilst I currently am in a “I will never be on-call ever again” phase of my career (Very much like the “I will never drink again” phase of a hangover, with much the same future), the fear of people coming to your desk at 17:25 saying “The little lights have stopped flashing on my disk drive, and I’ve got a report for the board due,... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/08/It%27s_not_for_you Chris Selland: But as a biz dev guy (who doesn’t have time – or a reason – to be online much) – and despite the fact that my job is all about relationships – I find twitter to be pretty pointless. LinkedIn, on the other hand, I use every single day. Oh. Good. I’ve been watching the Social Networking backlash with something of a professional... http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Using_a_Samsung_Z500_with_a_Powerbook_with_Vodafone_Live_over_Bluetooth Gosh, isn’t networking easier when you just plug things in? Ah well. You will require: The “Generic 3G Scripts” from Ross Barkman’s home page Your phone to be connected to Vodafone Live. A Powerbook with bluetooth. Download the scripts, unsit them and dump them in /Library/Modem Scripts The easy bit is getting the Powerbook to talk to the Z500. You turn on... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/25/Installing_NTL_Broadband_Without_Using_The_CD We now have NTL Broadband. They came, they installed it, they went away to get more cable, they came back, they connected it. They were polite, on time, and quick. They gave me the cables, told me to use the CD on the computer, and went away. And I ignored them. I plugged in the router, connected to it, and tried to find the magic address where you register your PIN number and... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/21/Magic_Blue_Smoke_and_Mirrors Okay, so I melted a floppy drive. Could happen to anyone. Who hasn’t done it? I mean, there they are, solid plastic, sitting in your computer case. Obviously at some point it’s going to melt. It’s just going to. So this is what happened, This is why I hate technology and am going to forthwidth go live in a bunker. No. A monestary. Get me to a monestary, because if this is... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/02/24/Event_Share_Framework gilmae alerted me to the fact that someone is creating an RSS 2 extension called Event Share Framework or ESF. This could be interesting. I’ve just sent them this email: I’ve just discovered your site, You should probably be aware that there is a syndication standard called ‘ESF’, the Epistula Syndication Format, invented at the height of the ‘RSS needs to be... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/01/19/Updates Aquaintances now exports a valid OPML file. This was far more work than it needed to be, because I have been unable to find a reference for a valid OPML file anywhere, blo.gs OPML files got imported by Dave’s Wonderful New Toy as “0 feeds added”, which is odd, because they were in exactly the same format as Dave’s old Blogroll before he redesigned Scripting.com.... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/12/Living_in_Syn Hot topic within the geekoblogsphere this month is – in reverse order – the WOX project and WinerWatch. I’m going to ignore WinerWatch (which is password protected now). The WAX project – also known as “PIE” or “nECHO”, but I like “WOX” to stand for “Weblogs over XML” Eventually they’ll think of a better name and a... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/07/The_Sin_in_Syndication In which Aquarion updates Epistula again http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/04/Independance_Day In which Aquarion bewails his lot, explains the crypic Interview statement, and makes peoples’ brains squeak. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/03/Nechophila In which Aquarion supports a format that’s more UnAlive than Undead http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/06/18/Fixing_the_right_problem In which Moveable Type gets support for ESF http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/06/17/CDF_Files In which Aquarion makes it so that IE users get something cool from the site. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/06/14/Scientific_progress_goes_eep In which Aquarion goes into shock over a discovery. http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/BitTorrent How BitTorrent works, and why it doesn’t work. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/29/Syndication%3A%3AESF Um. Someone has proposed a Perl Module for ESF. Golly http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/XML_is_the_new_black Originally posted to Alt.Fan.Pratchett . No. The future is not XML for presentation, the future is - or should be - XML for storage, and appropriate formats for presentation. Right now, that means HTML4 + CSS for web, HTML4 + Tables for old web, PDF for print, MP3 for speech, VRML for 3D. All of these can - and should - be generated from an XML format using XSLT transforms. This completes... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/04/24/New_Toy Data is fun. One of the nicest things you can do to a programmer like me is give him (or her) a pile of data in a nice format that is easily extractable, and tell him (or her) to go have fun. Last night, after a couple of weeks of looking at it, pol installed mod_log_sql which is an Apache module that makes all access logs become a mysql database, so a list of referers becomes simply... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/04/15/Commentary Paul has been adding things to his RSS feed. More specifically, he now has the <comments> attribute. I've followed suit (in the RSS 2 feeds) as of just now. The only reason I hadn't done it before was that I was under the impression that the comment attribute was the url at which you were to add and view comments. Since Epistula (And Klind before it) doesn't work that way, I ignored... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/04/10/Please_stop_hanging_around So this is what we find. In the last days of March 2003, nobody could have imagined that forces beyond the imagination of average were conspiring to make Aquarion Kael D’Blue’s life more complicated than necessary. Necessary, in this case, being… well, at all would be nice. The house hasn’t happened. I’m still homeless, still staying with Pol & Supermouse in...