The words we say are usually defined

by colors of the wind

That travels in the dreams.

The sweetness of first denial,

The smell of seaweed,

Or by the strength of the desire.

By passion in the touch,

And stroke of brush

Across the empty canvas,

Or may be by the drop

That falls from ice

On the cheeks of your beloved.

Iroshka

This picture was taken on our conttry house in Mt. Tramblant area. Lots of calibris there.

Sam Ruby summarizes the lesson of using wiki, mailing list, weblog during the development of Atom :
XMLConf: Lesson 3: Use a mix of strategies

Decentralized Meta-Data Strategies - fairly date, but still relevant catalog of distributed meta-data strategies usefule in resource location, distributed queries.

Joel wants to link .NET framework into an .exe. This tool does it.

Just stumbled on Grokker

Their product grokker works on top of a search engine to present search results in a graphical multi-layer fashion instead of usual long list of links.

Interesting UI innovation that moves users away from long listbox paradigm. Also interesting is the way they classify search results to divide entire result set into logical subsets.

The Register : "SETI@home crew is dabbling with Sun's JXTA peer-to-peer protocols for future versions of BOINC. "
5M SETI@home users on JXTA network would be a good test!

Adam Bosworth: I'm not the huge fan of REST that I think many in the ebpml.org world and elsewhere are. I love the ease and simplicity of REST, but once one assumes messaging is the correct paradigm, then there is need for an envelope to carry along the metadata used to correlate the message responses with the requests since this may no longer be a synchronous request/response. Secondly, in the world I'm describing, as I'll be making clear in future posts, a fair amount of information has to come in the request in order to enable the service to synchronize its response. This isn't possible if the request is limited to a URL which is limited by most systems to 2K bytes. Thus I think the argument that the REST folks make for all queries being GET's is impractical.

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