July 22, 2004
June 30, 2004
Lisfranc's Joint Asunder: Foot Surgery
I had the pleasure of deciding to slide into 3rd base in the MIT softball league game last Wed. (6/23/04) playing for the library team (Bibliotechs) and promptly sprained my foot.
Actually, it's worse than that (I subsequently learned)... my "Lisfranc's Joint" is out of whack.
Continue reading "Lisfranc's Joint Asunder: Foot Surgery"February 25, 2004
Directions and Maps to 47 Kingston Street
=== 4 Internet Maps ===
Continue reading "Directions and Maps to 47 Kingston Street"February 23, 2004
Query re: Michael Jackson's "Problem Frames" - any listserv or similar?
== Updated: See "Comment" below ==
My e-mail inquiry.
Query re: Michael Jackson's "Problem Frames" - any listserv or similar?
From: William Reilly
To: jblaine@san.rr.com
Greetings, Mr. Blaine,
I came upon your 2002 review of Michael Jackson's "Problem Frames," in Software Quality Professional:
http://www.asq.org/pub/sqp/past/vol4_issue2/resource.html#problemframes
...and thought I might ask if you are familiar with any sort of forum, listserv, wiki, etc., in which people are discussing Problem Frames.
Continue reading "Query re: Michael Jackson's "Problem Frames" - any listserv or similar?"February 14, 2004
Happy St. Valentine's Day
In September, 1995, I proposed to Lorie in this very spot on the Pont Neuf.
When she said, "Oui," ;^) I threw into the Seine my copy of "Why Men Shouldn't Marry."
Paris. "Le Plan de Merian" - 1615
http://www.paris.org/Maps/Map5/map5.f.html
Pont Neuf et environs
http://www.paris.org/Maps/Map5/mapf.cgi/h544?16+11
Pont Neuf, OUR one little spot (!)...
http://www.paris.org/Maps/Map5/gifs.h/17.10.gif
"Cette ville est un autre monde
Dedans, un monde florissant,
En peuples et en biens puissants
Que de toutes choses abonde."
(This city is another world / Therein a flowerful world / Of people very powerful / To whom all things abound)
January 30, 2004
DocBook As SpecBook?
My e-mail to experts at Adobe and Sun (on the OASIS Technical Committee for ebXML), as well as my posting to the docbook-apps listserv:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200401/msg00301.html
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Fwd: [docbook-apps] DocBook for authoring Technical Requirements, Specifications?
From: William Reilly
To: mxxxx@ adobe.com, dxxxxxxxxxx@ Sun.com
Hello, Matt MacKenzie & Doug Bunting,
I'm very interested in (possibly) using DocBook not to "Doc"ument but to
Specify a system.
Looking for a "SpecBook," or "ReqBook" ;^) essentially.
Or, to learn that DocBook itself might be a good choice...
January 26, 2004
XML Editors: Cladonia Exchanger vs. SyncRO oXygen
I wanted an inexpensive XML Editor IDE for Linux (ideally for Windows and as plug-in to Eclipse, and doubly ideally for one license price).
DISCLAIMER: Below, I've written not a review, but taken some semi-organized notes.
If anyone reading has comments, questions, clarifications, I would definitely like to hear about all.
Minor UPDATE in "Comments" below... [Feb. 13, 2004]
Cladonia Exchanger, v. 1.2 is $98, or $45 non-profit
SyncRO oXygenXML, v. 3.0 is $74, or $48 non-profit.
One license lets you install to Linux or Windows; oXygen can also work as Eclipse plug-in.
Click on the two screenshots below to see full-screen.
Exchanger
oXygen
30-day trials, more screenshots at:
http://www.cladonia.com
http://www.oxygenxml.com
(One more I've not (yet) looked into is MyEclipseIDE.)
Conclusion First:
Well, if I really had to buy right now, I think Cladonia's Exchanger would provide me more useful functionality than oXygen, but, there are as always some tradeoffs.
January 20, 2004
December 19, 2003
My Unpublished Letter to the Editor (Boston Globe)
Jeff Jacoby's Thanksgiving day paean to capitalism and the free market it espouses ("Giving thanks for capitalism," Nov. 27) no doubt was intended to be a necessary reminder--by means of this utterly textbook explanation--of the impressive and ever benevolent power of Adam Smith's "invisible hand."
Unfortunately, the textbook of choice for the usual praise bestowed on this single, all-guiding principle has once more nimbly declined to address the equally significant market-constraining concept of governmental regulation.
Continue reading "My Unpublished Letter to the Editor (Boston Globe)"December 10, 2003
Sagittarian Laughs at John Harvard Brew
Gregor's entry on his long December 2nd ("black ice Tuesday traffic tangle morning"), mentions moi and at least a couple other just-met Sagittarian types in a healthy dose of beer- & chocolate-induced giggliness, installed in a John Harvard Brewhouse booth, after sundown, over in the wayback (where we like it).
Continue reading "Sagittarian Laughs at John Harvard Brew"MS-Word's Awful XML
My posting to the cms-list back on November 7, in response to a big ol' long thread (some 23 entries!) on the topic.
My own inquiry (pasted below, and available online at:
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/cms-list/2012
elicited exactly zero replies!
Wm.
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[cms-list] Re: Cutting and Pasting from Word?!
From: William Reilly
To: cms-list@cms-list.org
I'd be curious:
== Has anyone ever heard from any Microsoft employee / defender / apologist on
any public listserv (or other venue) speak up about the how and why their
rendition of HTML-izing has to be quite so bad as it is???