Larry’s Log

I use to get in my truck and drive to my office. The traffic was horrible and I’d arrive at work grumpy in the morning and arrive home grumpy in the afternoon. Well, that office got closed and I was out of work for a few hours until I decided to throw in with a [...]

The Ivory Coast has been having its problems lately and the French, in their sense of responsibility to a former colony, have stepped in to help broker a peace accord between the rebels and the civilian government there. Not everyone is happy with the deal. In a turn on things:
Anti-French demonstrations in Ivory Coast calling [...]

I apologize for the lack of updates. I’ve been busy trying to get a business off the ground. I’ve had time to write but my mind has been elsewhere. It seems like by the time I get my thoughts together on current events they’ve already been commented to death elsewhere. I’ll try to put some [...]

There has been much discussion over copyright around the web here lately. What with the Eldred v. Ashcroft decision and Aaron Swartz’s Tips for Book Authors where he equates holding onto a copyright for longer than it takes to recoup the cost of writing the book with piracy the discussion has gone all over the [...]

Linda McDougal was told she had breast cancer. Linda McDougal was told that her best chance at survival was to have a double masectomey, followed by radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Linda McDougal had the surgery. Oops!
I woke up to this report this morning on GMA. I heard it again on Fox News just a few [...]

Mark Pilgram: It appears that I am trapped like a velvet, paisley-covered Chesterfield in a hallway: unable to go either forwards or backwards.from Eddies in the Spacetime Continuum.

Shelley points to a post on the W3C forum that tells us that Marks little tirade over the cite element being dropped from XHTML 2.0 working draft of 11 December 2002 was a little premature. Yeah, that appears to have been a mistake by the XHTML 2.0 working group and it will be back in [...]

I’m not a bit surprised that Apple doesn’t think Microsoft is doing enough to settle it’s anti-trust problems. What I can’t understand is why it would matter what Apple thinks in this case. The only way Apple would be satisfied is if Microsoft turned over everything it has to Apple. Then Sun wouldn’t be satisfied.
Now [...]

Let me see, first we had Movable Type’s Trackback, then Pingback came on the scene. Mark Pilgrim instituted a Further Readings system on his web log and now Sam Ruby is doing something like that using the link element referring to the sites RSS file. Since he’s also implemented Trackback into his system I’m wondering [...]

Mark Pilgram is on a tear over discovering that the acronym, cite and q tags have been removed by the W3C from the XHTMLtm 2.0 working draft of 11 December 2002. Specifically he says:

More specifically, the acronym, cite, and q tags are all gone, leaving us, respectively, with abbr, nothing, and nothing. The acronym/abbr thing [...]

Well, now the thing I want to know is, did they or didn’t they?

Yesterday North Korea insisted that it never admitted having a secret nuclear programme. The claim that we admitted developing nuclear weapons is an invention fabricated by the US with sinister intentions, Rodong Sinmun said.

Learning who is telling the truth here is very [...]

As if things for him weren’t already bad enough a couple of DeeJays on a Miami spanish-speaking radio show managed to get through the Venezuelan presidential palace switchboard to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by pretending to be Cuba’s President Fidel Castro. The transcript of the call is really quite humorous, though not much insight [...]

Illinois Govenor George Ryan commuted the sentance of all death row inmates yesterday to life in prison and, for a few, less. This comes after Illinois found itself in the position of conducting 12 executions while exonerated 13 death row inmates, one of whom came within 48 hours of the electric chair. Reform was needed [...]

Scott Andrew has some ideas about using Trackback and Movable Type Categories for building directories. I’m intrigued by the possibilities here and want to make sure I’ve got a link back to his entry to think about this more when I’m not so absorbed in other things.

I had a meeting today with the nice folks at AutomationDirect . Joan and Paul showed me what their company had been up to lately and I was thoroughly impressed with their line. I’m especially impressed with their eagerness to embrace open standards. Their prices are also very likable.
After the meeting we headed off for [...]