22nd
November
2006
“Last week I set a personal record: started flamewars on four mailing lists. It would have been six or seven, but I realized I was edgy, and decided to not watch the mailing list folders for a few days until I cooled off. But I never cooled off. And I wondered why. I recalled a recent blogpost by Adam Greenfield (hilariously if inaccurately mocked by ok-cancel) and I found a clue. I think he, and Peterme, and Lou and Peter Morville… well, we’re all outgrowing our favorite pair of jeans: IA.”
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22nd
November
2006
“If you discount CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (which is officially the Largest Machine in the World; then the biggest MOVING machine build by humans would be the giant bucket wheel excavator ‘Bagger 288′ built by Krupp in Germany in 1978. “
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22nd
November
2006
“XML is approaching 10 years old. How closely depends on how you’re counting. The W3C Recommendation Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 was published on 10 February 1998. Work on XML started around 1996, however, rooted in almost thirty years of SGML. The design principles for XML, which guided its development were published on 25 August 1996. The first working draft, published on 14 November 1996 defined documents very similar to the majority of XML you might see today.”
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