Archive for December, 2003

Merry Christmas 2003

Thursday, December 25th, 2003

To the geeks, to my friends, to the people I have yet to know, Merry Christams.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003

Amazing. Simply amazing. Hats of to Peter Jackson and his crew for a job very well done.

I have never finished the third book so seeing the ending was very satisfying. I think I will now go back and finish it so that I can the full scope of Tolkein’s image. If anyone has not yet seen this film (probably very many at the time of this writing) then I strongly encourage you to take part in this history making epic film. I for one consider myself honored to share in Peter Jacksons work.

Yes, it is that good!

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Winamp5 Uses Invalid XML

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

I recently downloaded the new Winamp 5 RC10 and am absolutely loving it. I am however a little irked that the developers have chosen to use invalid XML in the Modern Skin layout files. From what I can tell there is no use root elements anywhere nor is the XML preamble there. Instead it looks as if Winamp uses line by line parsing to utilize these files, a true XML parser would simply fail out. As far as I’m concerned this is not a good way to show skin developers how to use XML. Hopefully Nullsoft will change their ways and comply the XML standard.

Update [10/09/2003]: It looks like I spoke a little to soon as I sometimes do. I searched a little more and found that what Winamp is really doing is using one initial file to “include” all the sub-files via an include tag. However my point still has legs to stand on here. It should be using entities (i.e. Trillian style).

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Do It Up Like Picasso

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

Mr. Picassohead has got to be the coolest time wasters I have ever seen. By just taking a little time, and not needing a whole lot of creative jucies, you can create your own Piccaso-like rendering of yourself or anyone else. It is truly great fun. And once your done you can save it to show off to your friends. Via Simian Design.

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