Archive for November, 2003

Braised Ligurian Chicken

Sunday, November 23rd, 2003

Earlier this week, megnut pointed to a Jamie Oliver recipe for Braised Ligurian Chicken on the New York Times. So, we decided to try this out tonight. We haven’t eaten it yet, so I’ll have to hold off on the review — but, it does look good. Update: It’s a keeper. [...]

Microsoft Linux?

Friday, November 21st, 2003

Is Microsoft Linux in the Wind? An interesting article in Yahoo! today regarding some speculation around a Microsoft version of Linux.
Speculation that Microsoft might build a flavor of Linux into Windows Server 2003 has been rife since May, when the company said it was licensing the Unix source code and patent from the SCO [...]

The Poorman’s OS X

Monday, November 17th, 2003

This past weekend, I happened about an Apple store in my neighborhood. I finally got to test drive OS X a little bit — yeah, yeah, I’m a little behind ok. Anyway, as someone who learned how to use a computer on the Mac back in the early 90’s, I don’t really have [...]

Clark Community Network

Monday, November 10th, 2003

Today, Wesley Clark releases his own Slashdot. It’s called, the “Clark Community Network.” It’s an interesting concept in community blogging where anyone can be an author. Entries posted get reviewed and ranked and those ranked highly float to the top of the main page. Wired has this to say about it: [...]

Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP

Thursday, November 6th, 2003

The W3C has a discussion note about how RDF can be used to describe photos. I have a problem with this. A few weeks ago, I wrote about “Why EXIF is so Important.” The discussion note doesn’t factor in EXIF data in any way. The JPEG images that result from today’s [...]