Monthly Archives: January 2006

Google Toolbar Button API Follow-up

In my last post was my initital reaction to this new API from Google. It’s not surprising that I’m worried about Google’s plans here, as their record on XML cooperation hasn’t been all that stellar. I haven’t fully looked into … Continue reading

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Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button

Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button – aaaargh. I see Google’s recreated the OpenSearch Description format. Nice job guys. Oh yeah, and it also functions as an RSS feed information thingy…. which as far as I can … Continue reading

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Canadian Election Analysis: Urban vs Rural

Talking about the urban-vs-rural divide in Canada and the US with my roommate yesterday; today I realized I could actually demonstrate it. I scraped data from two websites: CBC and Elections Canada, since the latter doesn’t yet have election results. … Continue reading

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Puzzlepieces � tree-climbing vines (April 17, 2005)

Puzzlepieces � tree-climbing vines (April 17, 2005) – yes, I’m linking to a blog post of mine from last year. Most of my posts generate about zero comments, so this one, at 5, is a lot, the last one just … Continue reading

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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics – excellent stats from Google on HTML usage. There are so many times that I have wanted this. I have, however, made use somewhat more basic stats on RSS from Syndic8.

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Vote Selector Quiz

I never do quizes. And political party ones are innaccurate, of course. nevertheless Jack Layton Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (100%) Paul Martin Leader of Liberal Party of Canada, Prime Minister of Canada (88%) Gilles Duceppe Leader … Continue reading

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There is no XML without namespaces

Yes, this makes two blog posts today, and yes, I’m going to talk about XML again. I’ve suspected this for a while, but hadn’t looked into it. Thanks to Sam Ruby, I see that someone has: Who knows an XML … Continue reading

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‘my portal’ pages

Via Marc Canter, I learn that AOL is creating YAPP (yet another personal portal), in the DHTML/AJAX style. That’s by no means a bad thing, though. So now we have all the major players with a personalizable home page: Yahoo!, … Continue reading

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iSpecies.org

iSpecies.org is a mashup for a specific discipline, which is where it’s at ;-). Not too much to speak of yet, but it’s a good start. How about adding Wikipedia data? Via Tara.

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Tim Bray on XML Languages

Tim’s two recent pieces are just fantastic: On XML Language Design and Don’t Invent XML Languages. I was originally going to take out some points, and comment that I agree with them and why, but Tim makes a lot of … Continue reading

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