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RSS bookmark feeds. Thoughts on live bookmarks for bookmark sharing from Paul Hammond.

# 14th September 2004, 5:20 pm / paul-hammond

Mozilla Firefox—Live Bookmarks (via) Whoa! RSS support built in to Firefox, with a very smart interface.

# 14th September 2004, 4:23 pm / firefox, mozilla

RFC 3229: Delta encoding in HTTP (via) A solution to the RSS bandwidth problem?

# 13th September 2004, 11:09 pm / http, rfc, rss

Homestar Runner Wiki. Recently upgraded to MediaWiki.

# 13th September 2004, 10:20 pm

Poynter Online—E-Media Tidbits. Rob Curley (my boss) gets a good write-up from Poynter.

# 13th September 2004, 7:29 pm

The DRM Debacle. “... the whole idea is broken and going to cause severe damage and pain for content vendors, technology vendors, and ordinary folks who just want to go on with life.”

# 11th September 2004, 7:08 am

webkit2png 0.3. I finally started playing with this: it’s fantastic.

# 11th September 2004, 12:14 am

PDF Browser Plugin. No more PDFs littering my desktop on OS X.

# 10th September 2004, 11:11 pm

Are you better off now than you were four years ago? (via) It’s the economy, stupid! Vicious employment graphs, available as postcards.

# 10th September 2004, 10:32 pm / economics

Dynamic RSS Feeds and Bandwidth Consumption. A neat solution to badly behaved aggregators from Nick Bradbury.

# 10th September 2004, 7:36 am

Photo Matt: RSS Bandwidth Usage. Matt makes the case for RSS scaling just fine if you’re smart about it.

# 10th September 2004, 2:48 am / bandwidth, matt-mullenweg, rss, scaling

lgf: Bush Guard Documents: Forged (via) I tried this myself in MS Word on OS X—the spacing lined up exactly.

# 9th September 2004, 9:52 pm

XML.com: Wrestling HTML. Uche Ogbuji on ways to convert HTML to XML using Python.

# 9th September 2004, 7:51 am

Martin Fowler on Closures. They really aren’t that complicated once they’re explained well.

# 9th September 2004, 7:51 am / closures, martin-fowler

paramiko: ssh2 protocol for python. The SFTP support has a very pleasant API.

# 9th September 2004, 6:06 am

Personnel Foul—Fred Kaplan. The problem isn’t so much the structure of the CIA as it is the quality of their employees.

# 9th September 2004, 2:27 am

XML.com: Automated Tree Drawing: XSLT and SVG. Includes a recursive text parser in XSLT. May cause your brain to melt.

# 9th September 2004, 2:14 am / svg, xslt

LJWorld.com: Bank robbed in south Lawrence. All of our reporters are armed with camera phones.

# 8th September 2004, 10:49 pm

Safari Menu Bar Tip. Command click right on the text in the title bar.

# 8th September 2004, 9:32 pm / safari

PostgreSQL startup items for MacOS X (via) Thank you! I’ve been wanting this for months.

# 8th September 2004, 6:06 pm / macos, postgresql

OS X Security Update 2004-09-07 (via) Plenty of important fixes; a must-have.

# 8th September 2004, 3:45 pm / macos, security

Joel on Software—It’s Not Just Usability. More social software design thinking from Joel.

# 8th September 2004, 1:31 am / usability

Sell Side Advertising: A New Model? Intriguing: ads spread virally, publishers pick the ones they like.

# 8th September 2004, 1:26 am

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