Overheard : When asked what she thought of U.S. election/recount, singer K.D. Lang replied
"I think [George Bush] is hiding ballots in his boil."
Victor Liu See-le : "b. is a Web-based manager for Web bookmarks.
... b. now supports multi-user environments. Using basic Web server user authentication (i.e. by password-protecting the b./ directory), only certain users can have access to b.. Each user has his/her own bookmarks and optionally can have his/her own theme, welcome message, etc."
Oliver Travers : Recently I backed up my online bookmarks...
Wherein the author cautions ASPs that they really ought to offer one-click backups for their customers. I got here via a link to
Favorites::Convert in my referer logs. The combination of navel-gazing and the topic at hand made me think that bookmark-ish files would make an interesting distribution format for weblogs. If I were
the prototypical neurosurgeon that Cameron wrote about a thousand years ago, I think it would be pretty cool to download a neurosurgery archive and simply add it to my bookmarks collection and get on with the day. It is, I think, the only time I've ever seen the merit in Microsoft's decision to use filesystem based bookmarks, rather than a single text file, because I can add and remove items in discreet actions without doing anything programatically and/or offering up my bookmarks for third-party viewing. On the other hand, since there is an
XML-RPC client for Mozilla you could conceivably offer a similar service, using XUL(?), a la
Meerkat. Eeen-teresting....
Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS
"So here is my plan: create a default external style sheet with default settings and then use perl to query a database for a user's style settings and produce a <STYLE> element with all the individual customizations at the top of the html page. Is there an easier way to do this?"
What the hell is a "Quality of Life" crime?
