Dave's resuming a serious pitch for what he calls the World Outline. While we don't know exactly where he's going with the idea, it's more interesting then you might think on the first cut. Or at least what I've thought of the idea is more interesting then you might think.

He calls it "parallel to the HTML web, a new way of webbing." I don't know that I'd say parallel to the web... 'course, I'm not Dave... because that often gets translated in people's minds to "serving the same purpose as the web". In my understanding, the "new way of webbing" part is much more interesting.

I just flipped by Dateline:NBC, where they are smashing cars into barriers and rating the cars on how expensive the repair bills are. It seems that cars have gotten so safe today that the tabloid magazine news shows have to make up tests for cars to fail.

That's about how meaningful those tests are. You can always generate failure by making up arbitrarily wierd and useless criteria.

Disclaimer: My dad is a testing engineer for one of the Big Three car companies, so I have some familiarity with the other side of the story. ;-)

The market has created clear categories of software that range from the rather unreliable (Windows, piddly silly games, etc) to the extremely reliable (commerical Unices, VxWorks, QNX, etc). Interjecting liability laws into this arena will only throw that balance off and eliminate the lower-cost alernatives (including maybe boxed Linux distros!).

This comment is more interesting then the Slashot story it's a part of, but that's interesting too. The Slashdot article discusses a Security Focus article about a recently proposed IETF draft regarding a formal statement of best practice regarding reporting new vulnerabilities.

I've got basic event handling in the Jabber framework now; I've got messages and tommorow I'll add presence. After that, I think Dizzy will cry when he sees how short the presence monitoring code is from the user's end... >:-)

"In the old days, before weblogging, before the web, few people ever got to talk -- hold meaningful, long-running conversations -- with the authors they read, or with the leading professionals in their fields.

"With the web, especially with a weblog, it's now much easier and even more useful for both parties to do exactly that."

'In the Netherlands the old patent laws were clumsy and poorly drafted. The government decided they were unreformable, and simply scrapped them. In Switzerland, the confederation developed without them, and decided to keep it that way. Contrary to all current predictions of what the impact of such abrogations would be, in both nations they appear to have contributed to massive economic growth and innovation.'

Note: Yahoo! Groups will be down (again!) this Friday.

Growing incidents of spam attacks on some instant messaging networks are raising vexing questions about the future of one of the fastest-growing applications on the Internet. [Privacy Digest]

Benefit of leaving CBP behind, I get to route things correctly now. Not sure I like what it does in my template, though.

Jabber has some bandwidth limiting features that server runners can invoke, which can somewhat limit the problem. You still can't prevent DDOS, but it at least raises the bar.

This is a test of my new template. This will screw up the rest of my page until the old posts scroll off... and I don't even want to THINK about my archives... but times change, and so do I...rights.

Custom Blog Post going unsupportedAdministrative
Now that Radio supports a title link in weblog posts, the major reason for the existance of Custom Weblog Post is gone. I am officially unsupporting Custom Blog Post. As I transition (later), my home page will be a mess for a bit, unless I take the time to back-convert my previous posts.

I left customWeblogPost in a stable state, but it did not understand the new Home Page feature. If anyone else wants to take up development of it, I would be willing to transfer full rights to them.