Subtitle: The good, the bad, and the… no, wait; this is a Google project.
XML and Java have the same sort of flavor to them: they’re reasonably good and very widely used; they’re the sort of product that design committees everywhere aspire to create. Their flaws only really become visible after something better comes along. In [...]
I’ve been dutifully putting song ratings into iTunes for years now, rating each song individually according to its merit. iTunes actually died a while ago and forced me to start the entire rating process over again, but I still hope that one day I will have a fully rated music library.
While I can set up [...]
It is a favorite theme in science fiction that the moon is colonized as a mining base, to provide resources to a depleted Earth. This marks the first time I’ve seen something like that in the news. Then, though it happened too soon for there to be a cause-and-effect relationship, this came out.
The second link [...]