Tuesday, January 01 2002

Dave Winer : "Now it's interesting to note that, as far as I know,

no one has ever said "You get what you pay for" about XML-RPC." I would beg to differ:

When you get right down to it XML-RPC is about simple, easy to understand, requests and responses. ... SOAP, on the other hand, is designed for transferring far more complex sets of information.

Which is a nice way to point out that if you strip away the kill 'em all, let god sort 'em out attitude from the get what you pay for debate that's been raging for the last few days, you're left with the perfectly reasonable everything has a tradeoff. Microsoft gives you illusion of ease of use and support and just plain working at the expense of a lock-in. *nix gives you the free beer and the free speech at the expense of making even the most trivial of tasks seem like putting a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle together. Where, exactly, did all these men with hammers and their computerized utopias come from anyway?

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Me : Weblogs, Theory and Practice 1.1

There isn't a whole lot of news here except to say that I have munged the theory and practice data and tools into something a little more manageable and foofy-ized the design on the front end. This means that I will make more of an effort to update it; my apologies to those who've sent in suggestions and, well, been ignored. There is of course an RSS (1.0) feed. In time, I will add redirects from the old site and a "recently added" section and ping the weblogs.com server when it is updated.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is prink

| source : web1913 | Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See {Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. | source : web1913 | Prink \Prink\, v. t. To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. ``And prink their hair with daisies.'' --Cowper. | source : wn | prink v 1: dress very carefully and in a finicky manner 2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive [syn: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck up}, {gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick out}, {attire}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out}, {overdress}] [ant: {dress down}]

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