Monday, May 5th, 2003
Rss feed updated
I played around a bit with my new shiny rss feed which i introduced a few days back and it now successfully validates! I’m quite sure that it actually isn’t valid cause some of the descriptions are longer than the allowed 500 characters, but i won’t change that because i can’t stand those feeds that only offer short excerpts. Next step: getting my html validated.
Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Customers considered hostile?
Scripting news pointed me to this article @ny times. It made me wonder when companies started considering their customers (or at least former customers ;-) ) hostile, as the software described definitely has to be considered offensive and hostile. I’m also pretty sure that about any other organization or group would face legal consequences for taking such actions if it hadn’t the music lobby in its back (just consider how scientists violating the dmca are treated). Even if they could stop p2p-music-sharing i see the old days coming back, when music wasn’t downloaded, but ripped and spread among friends (an action that afaik is still legal in germany and supposedly also here in austria). Sure the music industry tries to give us a hard time by copy-protecting cds, but i personally never ever bought a copy-protected cd (i know several friends who faced varying technical problems due to those mechanisms) and i won’t as long as there are any suitable alternatives. Soon you’ll have to get anti virus software to stop the music industry running avoc on your harddrive…
Thursday, May 1st, 2003
Palm Tungsten C Review @Brighthand
It took some time, but brighthand finally got a hands-on review of palms tungsten c online.
RSS feed now available
I got some scripting done today (just a few lines of simple php) and finished a script to generate an rss feed of this site.
I decided to use rss 0.91 because it’s the oldest, best spread rss-version (and furthermore i don’t like its main competitor/successor rdf/rss 1.00). I tried to exactly follow userlands specification (unlike many rss-feeds nowadays) so if you encounter any mistakes in the produced document feel free to e-mail me.