Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Sorkin Criticizes Bush

'West Wing' Creator Criticizes Bush

Wow. How cool! Maybe I should watch that show after all. I've never seen it, because I figured they were probably suck ups. I guess not!

The real Swedish losers

This is horrible. Sweden's backup goaltender, Johan Hedberg, is saying that members of Tommy Salo's family in Sweden are being ridiculed and harassed because of Sweden's hockey failure. How pathetic.

BAD SWEDEN. BAD! Teams win together and lose together. Now we know who the real losers in Sweden are... the assholes making life difficult for the Salos.

Backgrounder: Tommy Salo is the world-class goaltender for Sweden (and the Edmonton Oilers) who let in that bad goal against lowly Belarus that knocked Sweden out of the Olympic Men's Hockey tournament.

Forwarding Address: OSX

A weblog by a group of people who are moving to Mac OS X from other platforms...

Forwarding Address: OSX

Thanks for the link, Backup Brain!

Think OUT of the box

Tom's getting a dual-gigaMac, but...

No it doesn't Tom! (Think OUT of the box... ) Have Amazon ship it to my place... I'll set it up for you however you like and keep it company while you finish the book. No foolin'! At least that way you'll know if any of the components are lemonish before you start using it full time, and I can take care of shipping it to Apple for you if anything goes wrong with it. I'm just sitting here in Southern California by myself with nothing better to do.

See what a nice guy I am?

(This reminds me of the Herlihy Boy House-Sitting Service on SNL)

Google Holiday Logos

Check out rc3.org today. Among other great links, there's this one:

Google's Winter Olympic Logos

HTTP is not the be-all and end-all

Dave notes: ... "it had not occurred to me that HTTP isn't everything we could want it to be. No sarcasm."

(That point was made in response to this interview of Don Box, formerly of Developmentor, now with Microsoft.)

Right on! How about considering removing the HTTP-only restriction from XML-RPC so that people can use it over different protocols? I know it's been done with Jabber (XML-RPC payloads over Jabber, named Jabber-RPC since it's not over HTTP) and people have done XML-RPC over SMTP, but until now the spec has been unwaveringly rigid about the HTTP requirement and not calling it XML-RPC if it wasn't over HTTP. I understand why, but how about opening the door to some sanctioned experimentation?

Highest ratings since 80’s Miracle

CNN: U.S.-Canada final draws highest ratings since '80

38 million Americans watched the game, compared to 8.7 million Canadians. That's a higher percentage of Canadians (no shocker), but who knew there were that many Americans interested in watching a Hockey game? That's great!

Canada’s Lucky Loonie

You might have heard about this from Wayne Gretzky's post-game interviews, but here's the details:

Edmonton ice maker snuck loonie into Olympic centre ice

He says he doubts he'll be allowed into another international tournament because of what happened. I highly doubt that. a) He's one of the best at what he does -- make great ice. b) It's not that big of a deal.

SOAPy Mozilla

It looks like SOAP is now part of Mozilla.

VRML redux(ml)

CNET: Bringing 3D to the Web

The VRML folk are back with a new XML-based successor to VRML called X3D. I'm very excited to hear about this. When I got into the Internet in the early 1990s, VR was my big love, and VRML was the hope for the future. Politics and being ahead of its time and ahead of technology made it unsuccessful, but hopefully time has solved those problems.