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Sjoerd: "Today I tried a different approach for XHTML 2.0. I created an XSL stylesheet that converts XHTML 2.0 to XHTML 1.0. Mozilla and IE6 can apply the tranformation themselves. Other browsers can use the w3c xslt service." 

Had a great phone talk with Adam in Amsterdam. Good to touch base with Europe. It gets so loopy here in the US. 

News.Com: "Linuxcare, a company that failed spectacularly at selling services for the Linux operating system, is back with a new strategy: selling software." 

There are now 4543 weblogs in Phillip Pearson's latest weblog ecosystem.  

Tim O'Reilly: "I met with Microsoft Group VP Jim Allchin, and was amused to see an iMac driving the wall-screen display in the conference room where we met." 

Jesus Christ has a weblog, but it looks like he could use some help. 

Jon Udell: "I've been meaning to try ActiveWords, so when its inventor and evangelizer Buzz Bruggeman wrote to me about it recently, I took the plunge." 

Reuters: "Stocks climbed for a third day on Thursday." 

Survey: After three straight days of impressive gains in the stock market, do you think it has hit bottom now? 

Dylan Tweney: "Some recently proposed legislation could open up computer networks to vigilante-style justice." 

A picture named dijkstra.gifA sad note. Professor Edsger Dijkstra has died. His work touched my life, as a computer science grad student in the 1970s, learning Algol after being trained in Fortran. Dijkstra was the advocate of goto-less programming, and argued that Algol-like languages should omit the sin that Fortran and Basic depended on for logic and looping. A strange concept at first, I don't think he managed to get the goto out of Algol, it's definitely in Pascal and I think it's in C; but get this -- there's no goto statement in my favorite Algol-like language, the one that's baked into Radio and Frontier. Let that be a humble tribute to Professor Dijkstra from an admiring student. 

News.Com: "Dijkstra and his wife also enjoyed exploring US state and national parks in their Volkswagen camper van, called the Touring Machine."  

Mark Pilgrim is accumulating notes on XHTML 2.0. "Keep in mind that this is all just markupbation at this point." 

Happy birthday to InstaPundit. One year old today. Mazel tov and many happy returns. 

Scott Rosenberg, blogger par excellence, expresses disbelief that the emperor of WorldCom had no clothes. 

News.Com reports that Trellix is adding weblog-authoring features to their eponymous browser-based web authoring program. Dan Bricklin explains, BlogRoots has a thread for discussion, Evan Williams comments

Evan continues: "Man, the heat! I'm getting loopy." 

Hey it's nice to see Ray Ozzie updating his weblog.  

     

Last update: Thursday, August 08, 2002 at 8:56 PM Eastern.

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