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Tuesday, August 30th

Accelerando



Currently reading Accelerando, by Charles Stross. Pretty neat stuff about Martioshka Brains, The singularity, and so on.


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Sunday, August 14th

XSLT



Been struggling with xslt a bunch recently. The tools we use to generate specs include a bunch of stylesheets to convert docbook to fo (and then to PDF, or just directly to HTML). The catch is that they are from 2003, and there have been a _lot_ of changes to them since. And of course, you can't just drop them in and go, some of the changes are incompatible.

Worse, I've tried to use the XSLT debugger in XMLSpy to try and figure out what is going on, but that can't succeed in running either new or old. Very frustrating trying to learn the quirks of the tool, while also trying to figure out the core functionality.

Oh well, such is the life. Do enough to get by for now, and keep trying to figure out the issues. Just keep plugging away at it.
dgc03052 on 08.14.05 @ 04:10 PM EST [more..]

Saturday, August 13th

Travel



Reading Normon Walsh's blog about travel http://norman.walsh.name/threads/travel , and how many countries one has stayed in makes me wonder - I'm not even sure what my count is. It's always a bit weird to be asked at the red cross before donating blood (very good idea) - what countries have you visited in the past X years (it keeps changing, it seems). And then the questions about SARS countries, and the bug of the month.

So, guess I'll start counting, and since I don't have great records, I suspect I will remember more later, and while I'm at it, lets be specific about cities (maybe I'll total up the states too)...

The recent ones:
October 2005, Singapore (coming soon, already ticketed)
October 2005, Not sure, Bay Area USA, maybe, or else NJ.
September 2005, Munich, Germany (coming soon, already ticketed)
July 2005, Piscataway NJ, USA
July 2005, Chicago Illinois, USA
June 2005, Provo UT, USA
June 2005, Dulles VA, USA
April 2005, Dublin, Ireland
March 2005, Piscataway NJ, USA
February 2005, Orlando FL, USA
January 2005, Palo Alto CA, USA
December 2004, NY NY, USA
October 2004, Tokyo, Japan
August 2004, San Jose CA, USA
July 2004, Montreal, Canada
April 2004, Barcelona, Spain
January 2004, Austin TX, USA

Then it gets vague - International I can get from my passport, but who knows what states. It should include the first 9 SyncML testfests (or 0-8), plus some of the standards meetings...
June 2002, Hong Kong
January 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands (two weeks)
December 2001, Londan, England
November 2001, Kyoto, Japan
?October 2001, San Fransisco CA, USA
June 2001, Tampere, Finland
February 2001, Nice, France

And a couple more Orlando trips...
July 1998, Shanghai, China

Then I'd have to find my old passport, but I think this was it...
? Outside LA CA, USA (with Lockheed)
? Atlanta Georgia, USA (with Lockheed)
? Washington DC, USA (with Lockheed)
? Dayton, OH, USA (with Lockheed) - Air Force Museum is cool...
? Denver/Boulder CO, USA (with Calcomp)
? Los Angeles CA, USA (with Calcomp)
Spring? 1990 Munich, Germany (with Calcomp)
Spring? 1990 Paris, France (with Calcomp)

College interviews (86, 87)
Los Angeles CA, USA
Bay Area of CA, USA
Boston MA, USA
PA

And going way back includes Orlando and Denver.

So I guess for countries that means:
USA
Japan
France
Germany
The Netherlands
Spain
Hong Kong (really an administrative district now - but separate passport stamp)
Mainland China
Finland
England
Ireland
Canada
Singapore (soon)
12 or 13 - whoohoo....
dgc03052 on 08.13.05 @ 10:07 PM EST [more..] [No Comments]

Tuesday, August 9th

Software Patent



Pretty freaky - one of the patent applications from back in 98 finally got approved - Patent 6,925,477

Pretty freaky. Especially that the way I heard about it was from a company trying to sell me very expensive plaques....

Of course, I really don't like software patents at all, but that's another story.
dgc03052 on 08.09.05 @ 03:31 PM EST [more..] [No Comments]


Weblog Purpose - General



Darryl Champagne's blog
dgc03052 on 08.08.05 @ 10:03 PM EST [more..]

Monday, August 8th

Initial entry



OK, Still testing. Running on my own server, seem to have the directories and permissions figured out now.
dgc_health on 08.08.05 @ 08:59 PM EST [more..]


Initial setup



This is the initial setup of GrayMatter.
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