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stan, Python already has regular expression
support... if you want only ^.*$ then the simplest and most
efficient way might be to prefix all others with \ and use
the existing regexp support. Most im...
Been spending a lot of time working on a 200-year-old
32-volume dictionary of biography that I own (I got it in a
second-hand bookshop in Oxford, missing two volumes that I
later got elsewhere). I fo...
North Carolina — I've got meetings next week
hosted by Red Hat in Raleigh. A participant in the W3C XML
Query Working Group recently changed affiliations, and I'm
hoping that we'll see Red Hat ...
A couple of years ago (ouch) someone (Rich Salz) had a go
at making a verion of my text retrieval
package which used autoconf. Unfortunately this broke
the code, and I started to have another go but,...
Sorry to see Advogato go; it might be over the top to say it saved my life, but, when I first found it, I was working in a very corporate environment where it had taken me six months to get Internet a...
House - We need to get the house repainted, but first we have to repair the board and batten siding on the house; I wrote a short note about the process. I hope soon I'll have enough articles about h...
I went from Extreme Markup, an XML/markup conference in Montreal, to TypeCon, a type and typography conference in Boston. From people many of whom think that style is just irrelevent rubbish that get...
Just got back from a business trip to Paris, and on the way home stopped off in Toronto; you can see my snapshots from the 2006 Toronto Pride Parade.
In Paris I had a long conversation with C. Micha...
Papers papers papers. Next week a trip to Paris for W3C XML Query face to face meetings, colocated with the XML Schema and XSL Working Groups. These meetings are often highly productive and helpful....
Working a little on the content mismanagement system I use for my pictures as well as for my images scanned from old books. Managed to wreck the RSS feed briefly, but it's back now. Probably just as...
Stupid marketing flyer of the week comes from The Source by Circuit City, which used to be Raido Shack. On the laptop with the smallest screen and least memory they say Increased memory and larger sc...
Back from travel to France (W3C Tech Plenary) and California (Unicode conference). The Unicode conference reminds me (it doesn't take much to remind me) of some of the work that is still needed to ta...
Wow, lots of snow fell.
pesco, why invent a new syntax The advantage of XML is not that it's particularly elegant, but rather that it's widely used. There are some nice feaures -- the end tags add a...
Too many blogs. What to do I wanted to put together some notes on buying and owning a home but rather than start a new blog, I am just making static Web pages for now. Once I'm up to a dozen or so ...
Spent some time once more thinking about fonts and typography in the open source and Free software community. I wrote a little more of an article on the subject and then got distracted again.
It's h...
Binary XML Politics has been interesting of late. I ran sessions at a number of conferences on three different continents, and found that people attending were in favour of W3C defining a more effici...
Chromatic, I'm with Tim Bray: stopwords are a bug, not a feature. I admit, as I say that, that my own text retrieval package, lq-text, supports stop words: sometimes the bug is in limited disk and me...
All the way up here in Canada we're getting rain from Hurricane Katrina, now a tropical storm. We're getting maybe 50mm (2 inches) of rain in a few hours. One of our windows blew in (the whole frame...
aristeu, roughly speaking Toronto is level with Nice in the south of France. So no, it doesn't have three months of darkness in the Winter, and nether does Ottawa :-) It does get too cold for bare f...
Been busy working on words and pictures from old books - it's mostly pictures right now, partly because I haven't decided exactly how it should work. I need to experiment. Up to almost 700 pictures ...
I'm at Extreme Markup in Montreal this week; I think it the best of the XML conferences for philosophy of markup. It's the only conference where people talk about the meaning of meaning itself.
Amu...
I'm in Redmond/Bellevue America for a week for W3C XML Query/XSLT 2 meetings hosted by Microsoft.
Meanwhile still working on my pictures from old books Web site; the search is gettting better. The ...
Wow, been busy! Moving is progressing: I can now work from home thanks to Kingston Online Services, an ISP giving (amongst other things) high speed internet access using 900MHz wireless. I am getti...
Good news about software patents in Europe balanced by bad news about terrorist bombs in London, although it seems to be the (at least partly American-trained) Al-Quaeda rather than the (at least part...
Wow, a Perl conference (YAPC in Toronto) the day after the Pride Parade, boy am I tired! And I was only watching, along with (literally) a million other people. Ran into someone at a party who was s...
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