February 2002

15Feb2002

The Blogger Manifesto

By carlfish on

<p>Chris Pirillo posted <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/archives/week_2002_02_03.html#000380">The Blogger's Manifesto</a> recently. I take issue with the fact that many bloggers and online journallers think that they are in some way above criticism&mdash;believing that just because readers choose to read a particular site, they should ignore those things disagree with while reading.

12Feb2002

XSLT is the Spawn of Satan

By carlfish on

OK. Now wouldn't it be cool if the language itself was valid XML? Why? Because... er.. because then you'd be able to make an XSLT document that takes another XSLT document and converts it into XSLT! Wouldn't that be cool? Er, yeah, sure.

12Feb2002

What's Wrong with OPML

By carlfish on

OPML is the &ldquo;Outline Processing Markup Language&rdquo;, an XML document format from Userland for the storage of outlines. Unfortunately, I find the whole thing rather clunky and hard to use.

05Feb2002

Hacking Radio Part 1: Docspotting

By carlfish on

I tried to start programming in <a href="http://radio.userland.com">Radio</a> today. I didn't get particularly far, basically because it was so difficult to find out how any of it worked