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diff --git a/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rfc4287/feed_title_full_feed.xml b/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rfc4287/feed_title_full_feed.xml deleted file mode 100644 index cef3f84a3..000000000 --- a/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rfc4287/feed_title_full_feed.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,936 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> -<!-- -Description: Feed title works with full entry -Expect: feed.title.text == 'ongoing' ---> -<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' - xml:base='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom' - xml:lang='en-us'> - <title>ongoing</title> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/</id> - <link href='./' /> - <link rel='self' href='' /> - <logo>rsslogo.jpg</logo> - <icon>/favicon.ico</icon> - <updated>2006-04-26T20:10:25-08:00</updated> - <author><name>Tim Bray</name></author> - <subtitle>ongoing fragmented essay by Tim Bray</subtitle> - <rights>All content written by Tim Bray and photos by Tim Bray Copyright Tim Bray, some rights reserved, see /ongoing/misc/Copyright</rights> - <generator uri='/misc/Colophon'>Generated from XML source code using Perl, Expat, XML::Parser, Emacs, Mysql, and ImageMagick. Industrial strength technology, baby.</generator> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/26/'> - <title>Spring in White on White</title> - <link href='Spring-in-White-on-White' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/26/Spring-in-White-on-White</id> - <published>2006-04-26T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-26T20:10:16-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Photos' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Photos' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Garden' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Garden' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Most people would generally prefer a climate where it’s bright and warm most of the time. But for Canadians and others who live where it’s not, there are compensations, and one is the experience of spring. I have a picture.</div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Most people would generally prefer a climate where it’s bright -and warm most of the time. But for Canadians and others who live where it’s -not, there are compensations, and one is the experience of -spring. I have a picture.</p> -<img src="IMGP3247.png" alt="Pear blossoms against cherry blossoms" /> -<div class="caption"><p>The blossoms are pear in the foreground, cherry behind.</p></div> -<p>After all the months of 50° North Latitude winter—icy-sharp in most -of Canada, wet and dark here in Vancouver—the soul, the spirit, and the -libido all spring to life when the sun comes back. We’ve had a solid year of -crappy weather, but this last Saturday through Monday were solidly summery, -bright -and warm; and in this season the days are already long and each gets -longer so fast you can feel it.</p> -<p>On the back porch, our pear tree’s branches were silhouetted against the -neighbors’ big wild old cherry; the cherry yields no edible fruit but who -cares, it’s beautiful -tree any time of year.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/26/'> - <title>Scott</title> - <link href='Scott' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/26/Scott</id> - <published>2006-04-26T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-26T20:06:50-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Business/Sun' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Business' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Sun' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>I’ve been watching our internal leadership conference and spending quite a -bit of time talking in the virtual hallways, and I’ve been surprised at -the intensity of feeling about Mr. McNealy. Yes, there are those -here saying “About bloody time, now we can make some progress” but there’s a -much bigger group that is genuinely emotional about this transition. -Maybe it’s a function of seniority: I never met nor corresponded with Scott, and -he hasn’t been -much of a presence in the company’s conversation in the time I’ve been here. -But there are a lot of smart, seasoned, unsentimental people making it clear -that -he’s been a major force in their lives, at a more personal level than I’m -used to hearing when people speak about executives. I guess also that to a -lot of people, Sun’s vision, for which Scott gets some of the credit, was a -radical and wonderful thing. I first used Unix in 1979 and quit a nice -big-company job -to become a VAX-bsd sysadmin in 1983, so I’ve always kind of -lived inside that vision. -But I’ll tell you one thing, what I’ve been hearing the last couple of days -makes me really regret that I didn’t get to know Scott.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/26/'> - <title>Jacobs, Pictures, Spartans</title> - <link href='Jane-Jacobs' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/26/Jane-Jacobs</id> - <published>2006-04-26T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-26T17:28:59-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Photos' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Photos' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a> died; -the city I live in, Vancouver, is pretty solidly Jacobsian both in its current -shape and its planning dogma. By choosing to live here I’m empirically a -fan. Oddly, few have remarked how great Jacobs -<em>looked</em>; her face commanded the eye. Which leads me Alex -Waterhouse-Hayward’s wonderful -<a href="http://www.alexwaterhousehayward.com/blog/2006/04/jane-jacobs-viveca-lindfors_26.html">Jane Jacobs & Viveca Lindfors</a>; -surprising portraits and thoughts on decoration. W-H’s blog has become one of -only two or three that I -stab at excitedly whenever I see something new. For example, see -<a href="http://www.alexwaterhousehayward.com/blog/archives/2006_04_01_archive.html#114476408248660848">Sex Crimes, Homicide and Drugs</a> -and yes, that’s what it’s about. -Staying with the death-and-betrayal theme, and apparently (but not really) -shifting back 2½ millennia, see John Cowan’s -<a href="http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2006/04/war-after-simonides.html">The -War (after Simonides)</a>, being careful to look closely at the links. -I’ve -<a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/Herodotus">written</a> -about those same wars.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/25/'> - <title>LAMP and MARS</title> - <link href='Scaling-Rails' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/25/Scaling-Rails</id> - <published>2006-04-25T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-26T07:24:06-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Sun' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Sun' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>At -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/13/RoR">that Rails conference</a>, when I -was -<a href="http://blog.garbledygook.com/2006/04/17/ruby-on-rails-podcast-tim-bray-ruby-on-rails-podcast/">talking</a> -to -<a href="http://jroller.com/page/obie">Obie Fernandez</a>, he asked, more or -less “How can Sun love us? We’re not Java” and I said, more or less, “Hey, -you’re programmers, you write software and there have to be computers to run -it, we sell computers, why wouldn’t we love you?” Anyhow, we touched on -parallelism a bit and I talked up the -<a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/">T1</a>; -Obie took that ball and -<a href="http://jroller.com/page/obie?entry=will_ultrasparc_t1_emerge_as">ran with it</a>, -saying all sorts of positive things about synergy between Rails’ -shared-nothing architecture and our multicore systems. Yeah, well, good in -theory, but I’m too old to make that kind of prediction without running some -tests. Hah, it turns out that -<a href="http://joyent.com/">Joyent</a> has been -<a href="http://scalewithrails.com/">doing that</a>, and have -<a href="http://scalewithrails.com/downloads/ScaleWithRails-April2006.pdf">76 -PDF slides</a> on the subject. -If you care about big-system scaling issues, read the whole thing; a little -long, but amusing and with hardly any bullet lists. If you’re a Sun -shareholder looking for a pick-me up, check out slides 40-41, 49, and 52-74. -Oh, I gather that the T1, Solaris, and ZFS are OK for Java too. -<i>[Update: The title was just “SAMR”, as in LAMP with two new letters. -Enough people didn’t get it that I was forced to think about it, and MARS -works better anyhow.]</i></p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/25/'> - <title>Real-Time Journalism</title> - <link href='Talk-With-Berlind' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/25/Talk-With-Berlind</id> - <published>2006-04-25T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-26T06:40:19-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Journalism' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Journalism' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Syndication' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Syndication' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>I got email late yesterday from -<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/bio.php#berlind">David Berlind</a>: “Hey, can -I call you for a minute?” He wanted commentary on -<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2906">a story he was writing</a> that I -think is about the potential for intellectual-property lock-ins on RSS and Atom -extensions. I say “I think is about” because the headline is “Will or could -RSS get forked?”. After a few minutes’ chat, David asked if he could record -for a podcast, and even though I only had a cellphone, the audio came out OK. -The conversation was rhythmic: David brought up a succession of potential -issues and answered each along the lines of “Yes, it’s reasonable to worry -about that, but in this -case I don’t see any particular problems.” -Plus I emitted a mercifully-brief rant on the difference between protocols, -data, and software. -On the one hand, I thought David could have been a -little clearer that I was pushing back against the thrust of his story, but on -the other hand he included the whole conversation right -there in the piece, so anyone who actually cares can listen and find out what -I actually said, not what I think I said nor what David reported I said. -I find this raw barely-intermediated journalism (we -talk on the phone this afternoon, it’s on the Web in hours) a little -shocking still. -On balance, it’s better than the way we used to do things.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/24/'> - <title>The Transition Explained</title> - <link href='CEO-Transition' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/24/CEO-Transition</id> - <published>2006-04-24T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-24T16:49:05-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Business/Sun' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Business' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Sun' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>It’s not that complicated, really. -Bloggers are -<a href="http://www.sun.com/2006-0418/js/index.jsp">taking over the world</a>. -Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/24/'> - <title>5✭♫: One More Cup of Coffee</title> - <link href='One-More-Cup-Of-Coffee' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/24/One-More-Cup-Of-Coffee</id> - <published>2006-04-24T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-24T13:00:00-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Music/Recordings' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Music' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Recordings' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Music/5 Stars' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='5 Stars' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I’m not really a <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan'>Bob Dylan</a> fan. A voice like that, and a tunesmithing talent like that, come along only a few times per century, but he’s still kind of irritating. That aside, the song <cite>One More Cup of Coffee</cite>, from the 1976 album <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_%28album%29'>Desire</a>, can’t be ignored; wonderful tune, wonderful orchestration, wonderful performance. <i>(“5✭♫” series introduction <a href='/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/23/5-Star-Music'>here</a>; with <a href='/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/23/5-Star-Music#p-1'>an explanation</a> of why the title may look broken.)</i></div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>I’m not really a -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> fan. A voice -like that, and a tunesmithing talent like that, come along only a few times -per century, but he’s still kind of irritating. -That aside, the song <cite>One More Cup of Coffee</cite>, from the 1976 album -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_%28album%29">Desire</a>, can’t be -ignored; wonderful tune, wonderful orchestration, wonderful performance. -<i>(“5✭♫” series introduction <a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/23/5-Star-Music">here</a>; -with <a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/23/5-Star-Music#p-1">an -explanation</a> of why the title may look broken.)</i></p> -<img src="Desire.png" class="inline" alt="Desire, by Bob Dylan" /> -<h2 id='p-1'>The Context</h2> -<p>Nothing I can possibly write will add any wisdom to the -millions of words, some 90% of them in excess of needs, written on the subject -of this particular person.</p> -<p>A personal statement: Bob Dylan has long irritated me for, during the first -thirty years or -so of his career, never having given a straight answer to a straight question, -and for writing songs with dozens of boring verses. But they’ll still be -listening -to lots of his performances long after I’m dead, and in recent years he’s -become a better, more direct, interview.</p> -<p>My taste in Dylan is a little unusual: once you get past <cite>One More Cup -of Coffee</cite>, my favorites would be <cite>Baby Let Me Follow You -Down</cite> (from the <cite>Last Waltz</cite> soundtrack) and -<cite>Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)</cite> from -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes">The Basement -Tapes</a>.</p> -<p><cite>Desire</cite>, the record, is hit and miss. <cite>Joey</cite>, -glorification of the life of some mafioso, is flawed in concept -and unlistenable in execution. <cite>Hurricane</cite>, whatever you think -about -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter">Mr. Carter</a>, that song -rocks; and <cite>Isis</cite> hits pretty hard too.</p> -<h2 id='p-2'>The Music</h2> -<p>Is there anything in <cite>One More Cup of Coffee</cite> that’s not -perfect? Well yes, in the verses, the -lyrics on occasion drag (“He oversees his kingdom / So no stranger does -intrude / His voice it trembles as he calls out / For another plate of food”). -But apart from that, the sentiment is compelling, -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Rivera">Scarlet Rivera’s</a> -violin is beautifully scored and played, the tune is to die for, and the -backing vocals are by Emmylou Harris, who you can bet is going to be here in -the 5-✭ series one of these days. -And while there’s not much middle ground on the subject of Dylan’s singing, if -you like it, you’ll <em>really</em> like this song.</p> -<p>Listen to the choruses: Bob and Emmylou veer wildly around the rhythm, then -coalesce on the beat when it matters, and they’re making it -up as they go along, they’re wholly inhabiting the moment, and it’s -quite, quite perfect.</p> -<h2 id='p-3'>Sampling It</h2> -<p>Oh yeah, it’s out there. And there’s a live version too; but the smart -thing would be to go buy the un-compressed un-DRM’ed shiny round silver -version of <cite>Desire</cite>; it’s a keeper.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/24/'> - <title>Atomic Monday</title> - <link href='Atomic-Monday' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/24/Atomic-Monday</id> - <published>2006-04-24T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-24T00:44:06-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Syndication' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Syndication' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Atom' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Atom' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>First of all, implementors of anything Atom-related need to spend some time -<a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000793.html">chez -Jacques Distler</a>; in particular, the conversation that plays out in the -comments. Second, there’s this piece of software called -<a href="http://www.planetplanet.org/">Planet Planet</a> that allows you to -make an aggregate web page by reading lots of feeds; for example, see -<a href="http://www.planetapache.org/">Planet Apache</a> or -<a href="http://planetsun.org/">Planet Sun</a>. -Sam Ruby decided that its Atom support needed some work, so -<a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/04/23/Adding-Atom-support-to-PlanetPlanet">he did -it</a>. Now, here’s the exciting part: he pinged me over the weekend and said -“Hey, look at this” wanting to show me his cleverly-Atomized -Planet Intertwingly feed. -I looked at it in -<a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire</a> and was puzzled for -a moment; some but not all of the -things in the feed were highlighted as unread, even though this was the first -time I’d seen it. Then the light went on. -This -is Atom doing <em>exactly what we went to all that trouble to make it do</em>. -NetNewsWire has good Atom support and, because Atom entries all have unique -IDs and timestamps, it can -tell that it’s seen lots of those entries before in other feeds that I -subscribe to. That’s how I found Jacques’ piece. This is huge; anyone who -uses synthetic or aggregated feeds knows that dupes are a big problem, showing -up all over the place. -No longer, Atom makes that problem go away.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/22/'> - <title>Hyatt on the High-Res Web</title> - <link href='High-Res-Web' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/22/High-Res-Web</id> - <published>2006-04-22T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-23T17:12:18-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Presentation' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Presentation' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Check out Dave Hyatt’s -<a href="http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=55">excellent write-up</a> on -designing and rendering Web pages so they take advantage of the -higher-resolution screens that <em>may</em> be coming our way. -I emphasize “may” because I’ve seen how slowly we’ve picked up pixels over -the years. The first really substantial screen I ever worked on was a -1988-vintage Sun workstation with about a million pixels. The Mac on my -lap right now, which has 125 times as much memory as that workstation, has -only 1.38 million pixels. -Anyhow, Hyatt has some smart things to say on the issues, -which are trickier than you might think. I suspect that sometime in a couple of -years, if I still care about <span class='o'>ongoing</span>, I’m going to -have to go back and reprocess all the images so that higher-res versions are -available for those who have the screens and don’t mind downloading bigger -files. -Anyhow, Dave’s piece may be slightly misleading in that he talks about SVG -as though -it’s something coming in the future. Not so, check out -<a href="http://zcorpan.1go.dk/sandbox/svg/atom/.xml">this nifty SVG Atom -logo</a>, which works fine in all the Mozilla browsers I have here. -Load it up, resize the window, and watch what happens. Then do a “view -source”. -<i>[Update: -<a href="http://blog.codedread.com">Jeff Schiller</a> writes to tell me that -Opera 9 does SVG (and Opera 8 “SVG Tiny”) too.] -[<a href="http://www.freeke.org/ffg">Dave Walker</a> writes: Though the shipping version of Safari doesn’t support SVG, -<a href="http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg">the -nightlies</a> do.] -[<a href="http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2006/04/is_it_time_for_jpeg_2000_to_go_mainstream.html">Dave Lemen</a> -points to -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG-2000">JPEG 2000</a> as possibly -useful in a high-res context.]</i></p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/23/'> - <title>Wrong About the Infield Fly Rule</title> - <link href='Wrong-About-the-Infield-Fly-Rule' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/23/Wrong-About-the-Infield-Fly-Rule</id> - <published>2006-04-23T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-23T15:02:41-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Family' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Family' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>My brother -<a href="http://takingalongview.blogspot.com/">Rob</a> is really taking to -this blogging medium. Check out his recent -<a href="http://takingalongview.blogspot.com/2006/04/credo.html">Credo</a>, -and also the only instance I’ve seen of -<a href="http://takingalongview.blogspot.com/2006/04/ode-to-96-chevy-lumina.html">Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry</a> -applied to a mini-van.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2004/12/12/'> - <title>Statistics</title> - <link href='BMS' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/12/BMS</id> - <published>2004-12-12T12:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-23T10:10:02-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Publishing' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Publishing' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Web' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Almost every Sunday I grab the week’s <span class="o">ongoing</span> logfiles and update my numbers. I find it interesting and maybe others will too, so this entry is now the charts’ permanent home. I’ll update it most weeks, probably. <i>[Updated: 2006/04/23.]</i></div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Almost every Sunday I grab the week’s <span class='o'>ongoing</span> -logfiles and update my numbers. -I find it interesting -and maybe others will too, so -this entry is now the charts’ permanent home. I’ll update it most weeks, -probably. -<i>[Updated: 2006/04/23.]</i></p> -<img src="Browser-Market-Share.png" alt="Browser market shares at ‘ongoing’" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Browsers visiting <span class='o'>ongoing</span>, -percent.</p></div> -<img src="Browsers-via-search.png" alt="Browser market shares at ‘ongoing’, visitors via search engines" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Browsers visiting <span class='o'>ongoing</span> via -search engines, percent.</p></div> -<img src="Search-Engines.png" alt="Search engine market shares at ‘ongoing’" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Search referrals to <span -class='o'>ongoing</span> .</p></div> -<img src="Feeds.png" alt="RSS and Atom feed fetches" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Fetches of the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds.</p></div> -<p>The notes on usage and source code will return in coming weeks when I get -the cycles to rewrite this whole article.</p> -<h2 id='p-1'>What a “Hit” Means</h2> -<p>I recently -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/07/Thumbnail">updated</a> the -<a href="/ongoing/misc/Colophon"><span class='o'>ongoing</span> software</a> -(but haven’t updated the Colophon I see, oops). -Anyhow, the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> now issued by each page seems to be a -pretty reliable counter of the number of actual browsers with humans behind -them reading the pages. I checked against -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/04/Google-Analytics">Google Analytics</a> -and the numbers agreed to within a dozen or two on days with 5,000 to 10,000 -page views; interestingly, Google Analytics was always 10 or 20 views -higher.</p> -<p>Anyhow, do <em>not</em> conclude that now I know how many people are -reading whatever it is I write here; because I publish lots of short pieces -that are all there in my RSS feed, and anyone reading my Atom feed gets the -full content of everything. -I and I have <em>no #&*!$ idea</em> how many people look at my feeds.</p> -<p>By the way, this was the first time in weeks and weeks that I’d looked at the -Analytics numbers, and they showed almost exactly zero change from the report -linked above. So I’m going to turn them off; they’re a little too intrusive -and I think may be slowing page loads.</p> -<p>Anyhow, I ran some detailed statistics on the traffic for Wednesday, -February 8th, 2006.</p> -<table cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" class="wltable"> -<tr valign="top"><td>Total connections to the server</td><td align="right">180,428</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"><td>Total successful GET transactions</td><td align="right">155,507</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"><td>Total fetches of the RSS and Atom feeds</td><td align="right">88,450</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"><td>Total GET transactions that actually fetched data (i.e. status code -200 as opposed to 304)</td><td align="right">87,271</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"><td>Total GETs of actual ongoing pages (i.e. not CSS, js, or -images)</td><td align="right">18,444</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"><td>Actual human page-views</td><td align="right">6,348</td> -</tr> -</table> -<p>So, there you have it. Doing a bit of rounding, if you take the 180K -transactions and subtract the 90K feed fetches and the 6000 actual human page -views, you’re left with 84,000 or so “Web overhead” transactions, mostly -stylesheets and graphics and so on. -For every human who viewed a page, it was fetched almost twice again by -various kinds of robots and non-browser automated agents.</p> -<p>It’s amazing that the whole thing works at all.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/18/'> - <title>XML Automaton</title> - <link href='XML-Grammar' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/18/XML-Grammar</id> - <published>2006-04-18T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-23T08:25:56-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/XML' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='XML' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Coding' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Coding' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>In December of 1996 I released a piece of software called <a href='http://www.textuality.com/Lark/'>Lark</a>, which was the world’s first <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-xml-proc'>XML Processor</a> (as the term is defined in the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/'>XML Specification</a>). It was successful, but I stopped maintaining it in 1998 because lots of other smart people, and some big companies like Microsoft, were shipping perfectly good processors. I never <em>quite</em> open-sourced it, holding back one clever bit in the moronic idea that I could make money out of Lark somehow. The magic sauce is a finite state machine that can be used to parse XML 1.0. Recently, someone out there needed one of those, so I thought I’d publish it, with some commentary on Lark’s construction and an amusing anecdote about the name. I doubt there are more than twelve people on the planet who care about this kind of parsing arcana. <i>[Rick Jelliffe <a href='http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/04/xml_in_xml.html'>has upgraded</a> the machine].</i></div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>In December of 1996 I released a piece of software called -<a href="http://www.textuality.com/Lark/">Lark</a>, which was -the world’s first -<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-xml-proc">XML Processor</a> (as the -term is defined in the -<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/">XML Specification</a>). -It was successful, but I stopped maintaining it in 1998 because lots of other -smart people, and some big companies like Microsoft, were shipping perfectly -good processors. I never <em>quite</em> open-sourced it, holding back one -clever bit in the moronic idea that I could make money out of Lark somehow. -The magic sauce is a finite state machine that can be used to parse XML 1.0. -Recently, someone out there needed one of those, so I thought I’d publish -it, with some commentary on Lark’s construction and an amusing anecdote about -the name. -I doubt there are more than twelve people on the planet who care about -this kind of parsing arcana. -<i>[Rick Jelliffe -<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/04/xml_in_xml.html">has -upgraded</a> the machine].</i></p> -<h2 id='p-1'>Why “Lark”?</h2> -<p><a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren</a> and I went to -Australia in late 1996 to visit her mother and to get married, which we -did on November 30th. Forty-eight hours later, Lauren twisted her knee -badly enough that she was pretty well -confined to a sofa for the rest of our Australian vacation.</p> -<p>So I broke out my computer and finished the work I’d already started on my -XML processor, and decided to call it Lark for <b>La</b>uren’s <b>R</b>ight -<b>K</b>nee.</p> -<h2 id='p-2'>How Lark Worked</h2> -<p>Lark was a pure -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_state_machine">deterministic -finite automaton</a> (DFA) -parser, with a little teeny state stack. -Some of its transitions were labeled with named “events” that would provoke -the parser to do something if, for example, it had just recognized a start tag -or whatever.</p> -<p>DFA-driven parsers are a common enough design pattern, although I think -Lark is the only example in the XML space. -There are well-known parser generators such as -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc">yacc</a>, -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_bison">GNU bison</a>, and -<a href="https://javacc.dev.java.net/">javacc</a>, -usually used in combination with lexical scanners such as -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_lexical_analyser">flex</a> so that -you can write your grammar in terms of tokens not characters. -Also, they handle LALR langauges, so the parsing technique is quite a bit -richer than a pure state machine.</p> -<p>I thought I had a better idea. The grammar of XML is simple -enough, and the syntax characters few enough, that I thought I could just -write down the state machine by hand. -So that’s what I did, inventing a special-purpose DFA-description -language for the purpose.</p> -<p>Then I had a file called <code>Lark.jin</code> which was really a Java -program that used the state machine to parse XML. The transition “events” -in the machine were mapped to <code>case</code> labels in a huge -<code>switch</code> construct. Then there was a horrible, <em>horrible</em> -Perl program that read the <code>Lark.jin</code> and the automaton, -generated the DFA tables in Java syntax, inserted them into the code and -produced <code>Lark.java</code>, which you actually compiled -to make the parser.</p> -<p>So while Java doesn’t have a preprocessor, Lark did, which made quite a few -things easier.</p> -<p>There were a lot of tricks; some of the state transitions -weren’t on characters, they were on XML character classes such as -<code>NameChar</code> and so on. -This made the automaton easier to write, and in fact, to keep the class files -small, the character-class transitions persisted into the Java form, and the -real DFA was built at startup time. -These days, quick startup might be more important than <code>.class</code> -file size.</p> -<h2 id='p-3'>What Was Good</h2> -<p>It was <em>damn</em> fast. James Clark managed to hand-craft a -Java-language XML parser called -<a href="http://jclark.com/xml/xp/index.html">XP</a> that was a little faster -than Lark, but he did that by clever I/O buffering, and I was determined to -leapfrog him by improving my I/O.</p> -<p>This was before the time of standardized XML APIs, but Lark had a stream API -that influenced SAX, and a DOM-like tree API; both worked just fine. -Lark is one of very few parsers ever to have survived the -<a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/303509/2002-12-13/2002-12-19/0">billion -laughs attack</a>.</p> -<p>Lark was put into production in quite a few deployments, and the flow of -bug reports slowed to a trickle. -Then in 1998 I noticed that IBM and Microsoft and BEA and everyone else -were building XML Processors, so I decided that it wasn’t worthwhile -maintaining mine.</p> -<h2 id='p-4'>What Was Bad</h2> -<p>I never got around to teaching it namespaces, which means it wouldn’t be -real useful today.</p> -<p>It had one serious bug that would have been real work to fix and since -nobody ever encountered it in practice, I kept putting it off and never did. -If you had an internal parsed entity reference in an attribute value and the -replacement text included the attribute delimiter (<code>'</code> or -<code>"</code>), it would scream and claim you had a busted XML document.</p> -<h2 id='p-5'>That Automaton</h2> -<p>What happened was, -<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712">Rick Jelliffe</a>, who is a -Good Person, was -<a href="http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200604/post30110.html">looking for -a FSM for XML</a> and I eventually noticed, and so I sent him mine.</p> -<p>There’s no reason whatsoever to keep it a secret: -<a href="/ongoing/code/lark/com/textuality/autom.txt">here it is</a>. -Be warned: it’s ugly.</p> -<p>Fortunately, there were only 227 states and 8732 transitions, so the state -number fit into a -byte; that and the associated event index pack into a short. -To make things even tighter, the transitions were only keyed by characters up -to 127, as in 7-bit ASCII. -Characters higher than that can’t be XML syntax characters, so we’re only -interested whether they fall into classes like <code>NameChar</code> and -<code>NameStartChar</code> and so on. A 64K <code>byte[]</code> array takes -care of that, each byte having a class bitmask.</p> -<p>As a result of all this jiggery-pokery, the DFA ends up, believe it -or not, constituting a <code>short[227][128]</code>.</p> -<p>Here’s a typical chunk of the automaton:</p> -<pre><code>1. # in Start tag GI -2. State StagGI BustedMarkup {in element type} -3. T $NameC StagGI -4. T $S InStag !EndGI -5. T > InDoc !EndGI !ReportSTag -6. T / EmptyClose !EndGI</code></pre> -<p>This state, called <code>StagGI</code>, is the state where we’re actually -reading the name of a tag, we got here by seeing a <code><</code> followed -by a <code>NameStart</code> character.<br/> -Line 1 is a comment.<br/> -In line 2 we name the state, and support error reporting, providing the name -of another state to fall back into in case of error, and in the curly braces, -some text to help build an error message.<br/> -Line 3 says that if we see a valid XML Name character, we just stay in this -state.<br/> -Line 4 says that if we see an XML space character, we move to state -<code>InStag</code> and process an <code>EndGI</code> event, which would stash -the characters in the start tag.<br/>And so on.</p> -<h2 id='p-6'>Other Hackery</h2> -<p>An early cut of Lark used String and StringBuffer objects to hold all the -bits and pieces of the XML. This might be a viable strategy today, but in -1996’s Java it was painfully slow. -So the code goes to heroic lengths to live in the land of character arrays at -all times, making Strings only when a client program asks for one through the -API. The performance difference was mind-boggling.</p> -<h2 id='p-7'>An Evil Idea</h2> -<p>If you look at the automaton, and the Lark code, at least half—I’d bet -three quarters—is there to deal with parsing the DTD and then dealing with -entity wrangling. -A whole bunch more is there to support DOM-building and walking.</p> -<p>I bet if I went through and simply removed support for anything coming out -of the <code><!DOCTYPE></code>, including all entity processing, -then discarded -the DOM stuff, then added namespace support and SAX and StAX APIs, it would be -less than half its current size. -Then if I reworked the I/O, knowing what I know now and stealing some tricks -that James Clark uses in -<a href="http://expat.sourceforge.net/">expat</a>, I bet it would -be the fastest Java XML parser on the planet for XML docs without a -DOCTYPE; by a wide margin. It’s hard to beat a DFA.</p> -<p>And it would still be fully XML 1.0 compliant. Because (snicker) this is -Java, and your basic core Java now includes an XML parser, so I could simply -instrument Larkette to buffer the prologue and if it saw a DOCTYPE with an -internal subset, defer to Java’s built-in parser.</p> -<p>I’ll probably never do it. But the thought brings a smile to my face.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/22/'> - <title>Just A Kid</title> - <link href='Just-a-Kid' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/22/Just-a-Kid</id> - <published>2006-04-22T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-22T13:37:58-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Food and Drink' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Food and Drink' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Last weekend, Lauren felt like cooking up home-made Easter eggs, so -the shopping list included “chocolate chips (large bag)”. I was heading down -the bulk-foods aisle and realized one of the vertical acrylic bins was full of -them. Someone had been sloppy, and there was a little heap of chocolate chips -on the shelf underneath it. For a second, I flashed into pure eight-year-old -mode, thinking “Holy cow, there’s a <em>whole bin</em> full of chocolate -chips, and more just lying there!” I popped a few in my mouth and they were -excellent; semi-sweet, dark, strong, and firm. I was still in the state that -Buddhists don’t mean when they say “Child’s Mind”, thinking “I -can get as many as I want!” The list did say “large bag” after all, so I put -a bag under the spout and gleefully jammed the lever <em>all the way -over</em>. At home, Lauren said “You went overboard, a bit, didn’t you?” -and now we have a plastic canister-full in the pantry which should last us -into 2007. It’s a good feeling.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/22/'> - <title>Goddess</title> - <link href='Goddess' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/22/Goddess</id> - <published>2006-04-22T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-22T12:25:59-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Family' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Family' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Microsoft' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Microsoft' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>That would be my wife -<a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren</a>. After -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/16/Mad-at-Microsoft">I b0rked</a> our -Win2K gamebox, I tried re-installing the OS and eventually reduced it to -complete brick-ness, it recognized neither the video adapter nor the network -card. So Lauren brushed me aside and started wrestling with the problem, and -to make a long story short, it almost completely works again. At one point -she seemed nearly infinite in her capabilities, sitting in front of the -computer wrangling software updates while knitting baby stuff and looking up -words in a German dictionary for the kid’s homework. Some of the German nouns -and muttered curses at the Windows install sounded remarkably like each other. -Why would anyone not marry a geek? The only problem is that Win2K won’t -auto-switch resolutions to play games any more, it gets the frequency wrong -and the LCD goes pear-shaped, you have to hand-select the frequency and -switch into the right resolution first. LazyWeb?</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/21/'> - <title>Routing Around Spotlight</title> - <link href='Routing-Around-Spotlight' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/21/Routing-Around-Spotlight</id> - <published>2006-04-21T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-21T23:16:25-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Mac OS X/Gripes' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Mac OS X' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Gripes' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Herewith two hideously ugly little shell scripts for use when Spotlight refuses to search your mail. Spotlight is a flawed v1.0 implementation of a really good idea and will, I’m sure, be debugged in a near-future release. <i>[Update: The LazyWeb is educating me... these are moving targets.]</i></div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Herewith two hideously ugly little shell scripts for use when Spotlight -refuses to search your mail. -Spotlight is a flawed v1.0 implementation of a really good idea and will, I’m -sure, be debugged in a near-future release. -<i>[Update: The LazyWeb is educating me... these are moving targets.]</i></p> -<p>My problem is that whereas Mail.app will search my To/From/Subject -lines (slowly, and with a -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2005/11/20/UnTiger">really irritating GUI</a>), -the “Entire Message” option just doesn’t work, it returns instantly with no -results. Yes, I’ve read the hints about making Spotlight re-index, -but it just flatly refuses to work for me. Mind you, I have a lot of -email, but still, it should at least try.</p> -<p>It turns out I had never really figured out the <code>-print0</code> and -<code>-0</code> idioms that a lot of the shell-command stalwarts now have. -Thanks to Malcolm Tredinnick for raising my consciousness.</p> -<p>This lives in <code>$HOME/bin</code> under the name -<code>mailgrep</code>:</p> -<pre><code>#!/bin/sh -find $HOME/Library/Mail/IMAP* -name '*.emlx' -print0 | \ - xargs -0 fgrep -i $@</code></pre> -<p>Isn’t <code>xargs</code> a funny command? I’ve discovered that it’s nearly -impossible to describe what does, and then why what it does is necessary, but -there are just a whole bunch of places where you’d be lost without it.</p> -<p>This lives in <code>$HOME/bin/mailview</code>:</p> -<pre><code>#!/bin/sh -find $HOME/Library/Mail/IMAP* -name '*.emlx' -print0 | \ - xargs -0 fgrep -i -l -Z $@ | \ - xargs -0 open</code></pre> -<p>The first cut of this dodged <code>xargs</code> and used an -incredibly-inefficient and slow chain of <code>-exec</code> arguments to open -the files one at a time with -<code>view</code> (aka <code>vim</code>), to work around -a well-known <code>vim</code> misfeature; it complained about the input -not being a terminal and left my Terminal.app keystrokes borked.</p> -<p>But Malcolm, confirming my belief in the broken-ness of <code>vim</code>, -said “Oh, *that* ‘view’. I thought it was some sexy Mac ‘view my email’ app”. -D’oh, of course; the magic OS X <code>open</code> command does just the right -thing. -Erm, you might want to run <code>mailgrep</code> before you run -<code>mailview</code>; I’m not sure what would happen if you asked OS X to -open three or four thousand email messages at once.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/21/'> - <title>FSS: Pink Flowers</title> - <link href='Dracon-Help' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/21/Dracon-Help</id> - <published>2006-04-21T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-21T17:19:27-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Photos' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Photos' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Friday Slide Scan #28 is two Eighties florals, one interior, one exterior. With a confession.</div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Friday Slide Scan #28 is two Eighties florals, one interior, one -exterior. With a confession.</p> -<p>First some spring flowers fallen from a tree, just as now in our front -yard, at dusk.</p> -<img src="0506.png" alt="Fallen pink treeflowers on grass at dusk" /> -<p>I’m not sure what these are, but look at the light in the center. Rewards -enlarging.</p> -<img src="0713.png" alt="Flowers in shadow with light in background" /> -<p>Here’s the confession. Sometimes on Fridays when I’m feeling kinda -burned-out, I knock off work and do these slide scans in the office, because -this is where I have the -<a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/14/MineIsBigger">big -screen</a>. -Blowing these pictures up to mega-huge, picking away at the old-slide crud and -scanning artifacts, tinkering with the colour balance, and listening; I never -play music while I’m writing or coding seriously, but I play it real loud while -photo-editing. It’s all pretty well pure pleasure; you just can’t imagine -how good that second one above looks at near-native size. -It reconstitutes the part of my mind that I earn my living with; that’s my -story and I’m sticking to it.</p> -<p>Images in the Friday Slide Scans are from 35mm slides taken between 1953 -and 2003 by (in rough chronological order) -<a href="http://www.textuality.com/BillBray/">Bill Bray</a>, -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2004/08/11/MomsGarden">Jean Bray</a>, Tim Bray, Cath -Bray, and -<a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren Wood</a>; when I know -exactly who took one, I’ll say; in this case, at least one is by Cath Bray. -Most but not all of the slides were on Kodachrome; they were digitized using -a Nikon CoolScan 4000 ED scanner and cleaned up by a combination of the Nikon -scanning software and PhotoShop Elements.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/20/'> - <title>Spring Pix</title> - <link href='Spring-Pix' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/20/Spring-Pix</id> - <published>2006-04-20T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-20T23:07:10-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Places/Vancouver' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Places' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Vancouver' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Photos' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Photos' /> - <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Three pictures around Vancouver; one of a fresh green springtime tree, two of rotten old buildings being torn down.</div></summary> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Three pictures around Vancouver; one of a fresh green springtime tree, two -of rotten old buildings being torn down.</p> -<p>There’s nothing quite as fresh as just-sprouted deciduous leaves; -another few weeks and this tree will be just a tree.</p> -<img src="IMG_4656.png" alt="Sunlit fresh young leaves" /> -<p>I have a thing about demolition. -The first is a rotten dingy old one-story on Main Street near 23rd, the second -is an unlovely grey mid-rise being torn down to build still more condos at -Homer and Helmcken.</p> -<img src="IMG_4665.png" alt="Demolition site on Main Street, Vancouver" /> -<img src="IMG_4671.png" alt="Demolition site at Homer and Helmcken, Vancouver" /> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/20/'> - <title>Totten’s Trip</title> - <link href='Totten-on-Iraq' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/20/Totten-on-Iraq</id> - <published>2006-04-20T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-20T21:05:22-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Places/Middle East' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Places' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Middle East' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p><a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/">Michael J. Totten</a> is a -journalist and blogger who’s back and forth to the -Middle East and writes about it, quite well in my opinion; he supports this by -freelancing and with his blog’s tip jar. He gets lots of -link love from the right-wing blogosphere, which is puzzling because Totten is -balanced and clear-eyed and doesn’t seem to have any particular axe to grind. -Recently, he and a friend were -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001117.html">having fun in -Istanbul</a> and, on a random drive out into the country, decided on impulse to -keep going, all the way across Turkey and into Iraq; into the Kurdish -mini-state in Iraq’s north, to -be precise. It makes a heck of a story, with lots of pictures, in six parts: -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001119.html">I</a>, -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001120.html">II</a>, -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001121.html">III</a>, -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001124.html">IV</a>, -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001126.html">V</a>, and -<a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001127.html">VI</a>. -</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/19/'> - <title>The Cost of AJAX</title> - <link href='The-Cost-of-AJAX' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/19/The-Cost-of-AJAX</id> - <published>2006-04-19T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-20T00:37:46-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Web' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Web' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>James Governor -<a href="http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/001526.html">relays a -question</a> that sounds important -but I think is actively dangerous: do AJAX apps present more of -a server-side load? The question is dangerous because it’s meaningless and -unanswerable. Your typical Web page will, in the process of -loading, call back to the server for a bunch of stylesheets and graphics and -scripts and so on: for example, this <span class='o'>ongoing</span> page calls -out to three different graphics, one stylesheet, and one JavaScript file. -It also has one “AJAXy” XMLHttpRequest call. -From the server’s point of view, those are all just requests to dereference -one URI or another. In the case -of <span class='o'>ongoing</span>, the AJAX request is for a static file less -than 200 bytes in size (i.e. cheap). -On the other hand, it could have been for something that required a -complex outer join on two ten-million-row tables (i.e. <em>very</em> -expensive). And one of the virtues of -the Web Architecture is that it hides those differences, the “U” in URI stands -for “Uniform”, it’s a Uniform interface to a resource on the Web that could -be, well, anything. -So saying “AJAX is expensive” (or that it’s cheap) is like saying “A mountain -bike is slower than a battle tank” (or that it’s faster). -The truth depends on what you’re doing with it. -In the case of web sites, it depends on how many fetches you do and -where you have to go to get the data to satisfy them. -<span class='o'>ongoing</span> is a pretty quick web site, even though it runs -on a fairly modest server, but -that has nothing to do with AJAX-or-not; it’s because of the particular way -I’ve set up the Web resources that make the pages here. -I’ve -<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/14/AJAX-Performance">argued elsewhere</a> -that AJAX can be a performance win, system-wide; but that argument too is -contingent on context, lots of context.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -<entry xml:base='When/200x/2006/04/18/'> - <title>Hao Wu and Graham McMynn</title> - <link href='Hao-Wu' /> - <id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/18/Hao-Wu</id> - <published>2006-04-18T13:00:00-08:00</published> - <updated>2006-04-18T22:00:40-08:00</updated> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Places/China' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Places' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='China' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Politics' /> - <category scheme='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Politics' /> -<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> -<p>Graham McMynn is a teenager who was kidnapped in Vancouver on April 4th and -freed, in a large, noisy, and -<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2006/04/12/bcabduction060412.html">newsworthy</a> -police operation, on April 12th. -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao_Wu">Hao Wu</a> is a Chinese -film-maker and -<a href="http://beijingorbust.blogspot.com/">blogger</a> who was kidnapped in -Beijing on February 22nd in a -small, quiet police operation not intended to be newsworthy, and who has not -been freed. -Read about it -<a href="http://spaces.msn.com/wuhaofamily/">here</a>, -<a href="http://ethanzuckerman.com/haowu/">here</a>, and -<a href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/freehaowu/index.html">here</a>. -Making noise about it <em>might</em> influence the government of China to -moderate its actions against Mr. Wu, and can’t do any harm. -Mr. McMynn’s kidnappers were a gaggle of small-time hoodlums, one of whom was -out on bail while awaiting trial for another kidnapping (!). -Mr. Wu’s were police. -In a civilized country, the function of the police force is to deter such -people and arrest them. A nation where they are the same people? Nobody -could call it “civilized”.</p> -</div></content></entry> - -</feed> |