There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

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We’re having tornadoes in the area tonight.  Well, I think so, anyway.  I read about ‘warnings’ and ‘watches’ and for the life of me can not quite remember which is which.  I have not been able to remember this distinction *EVER*.  I remember in first grade having trouble keeping them straight, it’s not gotten better [...]

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Head over to http://michaelkimsal.com/twitspeak/ to listen to my recent twitter stream.  I’ve got it listing my friends’ messages, but mine get in there too apparently.  I know people have done some integration between voice and twitter, but I’ve not seen anyone doing this yet.  Having done it, I see why :)  Text to speech technology [...]

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I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time, if for no other reason than to prove I can do it.  :)  I looked a bit at mychingo.com, but they force java applets on you, and I’ve never had good luck with audio and java on linux.  Also, it’s a separate hosted service and [...]

Posted in Blogging, Flash/Flex, Ideas, Software, Web 4 Comments »

Perhaps I’m completely alone in this, but I don’t always commit every single change I make when I make it. A recent project has me chasing down a series of nested problems, and when it’s finally ‘fixed’, I have numerous changes in files that don’t necessarily relate to each other. For example, in [...]

Posted in Development, Ideas, Software 10 Comments »

I’ve put up the latest installment in my “Grails for PHP developers”.  Rather than delve too much more in to Grails head on, I’m taking this installment (and at least the next one) to delve more in to the Groovy language itself.  Groovy offers similarities to PHP, but also many differences which can trip you [...]

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I’ve put up a first pass at visualizing the data from the survey I put up last month about computer language use and religion.  This was an attempt to see if there are any correlations between languages people *prefer* to use and religious identity.  The results are available to be viewed at http://www.kimsal.com/reldevsurvey/results.php.
There’s a few [...]

Posted in General, Ideas, Religion, Society, Software, Web 14 Comments »

The TSA recently (a week or so ago) put up a blog soliciting input on its operations. Within hours, there were hundreds of posts, mostly accusing the agency of either being incompetent or malicious, or of using the blog as a PR smokescreen. While all may be true accusations, the TSA responded today [...]

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I was reading up on carbon offsets - buying, selling, etc. - and got to thinking that I could let people pay me to not pollute.  I’m not sure I pollute all that much, but certainly between my wife and I we create *something*.  So I’ll stop, or reduce my footprint as it were, for [...]

Posted in Energy, Finance, Ideas, Society 3 Comments »

Matt Blodgett recently twittered about developers and private offices.  “I wonder if mgmt knows how bad they are killing productivity by doing that? Are they ignorant, or just stupid?” was a followup twitter I got from him, and I started replying.  Twitter’s too limiting for what I was trying to say, so I’ll say it [...]

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