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SOX

posted Thu, 30 May 2002 23:24:05 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

SOX (Simple Outline XML) is a new way to type in XML. SOX makes it really easy to write XML, it uses the indentation (� la Python) to get rid of all the closing tags. For instance:

<br />html><br />  head><br />    title> Hello<br />  body><br />    h1> Title<br />    p> A little text with a<br />      a> href=http://link<br />         link<br />      .<br />

would render to something like (untested):

<br /><html><br />  <head><br />    <title> Hello </title> <br />  </head><br />  <body><br />    <h1> Title </h1><br />    <p> A little text with a<br />      <a href="http://link"><br />         link </a><br />      . </p><br />  </body><br /></html><br />

That really seems great! SOX is implemented in Java (source included).

[Via Curtis Duhn’s Motherlog]

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New anti-piracy media

posted Thu, 30 May 2002 23:05:37 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

Now they’ve done it! They have created a media for music that doesn’t fit in the computer’s CD player. It’s 12” in diameter and black.
:-)

[Via DotBlog]

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Paranoia

posted Wed, 29 May 2002 23:49:26 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

Now, this is paranoia! Today The Register reports of a project called m-o-o-t. The project is a reaction to certain laws in e.g. UK which require that you provide the government with your keys to your encrypted material on request. So what this project will produce is a CD used to boot the computer. On this CD there will be applications for things like communication and spreadsheet. But you cannot communicate with computers that don’t use m-o-o-t, due to security issues. Moreover, you cannot access your harddrives, thus everything is saved on off-shore data havens, spread out in little pieces and encrypted. So there are no traces of your data on your computer and if somebody should knock on your door when your’re using it you just eject the CD and the RAM get instantly erased. Neet! It really seems extremely secure!

But the question remains: who will use it? You won’t be able to do anything useful with it�just entering data and communicate with others that are using m-o-o-t. And you can’t install any additional applications. Or perhaps the question should be: who will use it for legal purposes?

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Singing in the rain

posted Wed, 29 May 2002 21:28:05 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

It has rained almost all day today. But I was out taking a long walk in the beautiful Brunnspark. And the rain was pouring down. Just the sound of the rain drops pattering against my umbrella made me want to sing (well almost anyway). And even some mosquitos made an appearence, and took shelter along with me from the rain (still itching). There are not many thing that are as refreshing as rain, that’s for sure! (But from indoor the rain seems so dull)

Another thing that got me on a good mood was this animation. A musical as a means of protecting consumers’ rights is the way to go! :-)

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XML feed

posted Wed, 29 May 2002 00:36:39 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

Today I have spent several hours to solve the problem with providing an RSS feed. The problem is that I use blogger to create this blog. And they don’t support RSS feeds, unfortunately. So I had to make my own solution. It’s a python application that parse the HTML page that blogger creates, and generates the corresponding RSS feed. So far I have to manually upload the generated file using FTP, but that will be taken care of to make the whole process work automagically. Please report if you experience any problems with the RSS feed!

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Progress

posted Tue, 28 May 2002 03:42:08 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

Ahh! What a relief! Now I have just finished the next draft of my master thesis.

I started working on the thesis in the beginning of this year. But the last couple of weeks I have attended a course in Knowledge Management, which left no time for my thesis. So I have only worked on it for a little more than a week now. Finally I’m starting to gain some momentum…

You can read it, if you want. But the thesis is far from finished so it might not be that interesting. You can find it here. Please give me some feedback if you read it!

Now I really must go to bed! :-)

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Why?

posted Mon, 27 May 2002 20:08:38 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

So, why has I created this weblog? To be honest�I’m not sure. There are, however, some things that I would like to write about.

I hope that the topic, and raison d’être, will emerge eventually! This means that there will probably be quite diverse topics in the near future, but just bare with me!

I will write more another day. To set this weblog up has taken too much time from my thesis already! :-)