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Hmm, haven’t bothered to do any searching with it, but obviously Google Personalized’s approach of manually creating a category profile is only a stepping stone to say, building a profile from your past searches or via *eh-hrrrm* scanning other personal information exchanges.
Interesting tidbits. They require DOM/JS support for creating a profile, an yes, it is Kaltix based:
Revision tracking/visualization:
Just popped back in my head. Internally at Yahoo, web standards is sold as ‘LSM’, Layered Semantic Markup. Actually, I’m sort of half-and-half on either term. ‘web standards’ really isn’t all that descriptive. HTML 3.2 is a web standard. In fact, nothing in the spec says you can’t lay out tables and spacers and not be completely valid and conformant. On the other hand, the term semantic markup gets thrown around way too much. It’d be easy to replace the ‘S’ w/ structured, but I agree with Tim that ‘descriptive’ might be the most accurate term. That being said, and while at the end of the day, I’m just not convinced on how semantically rich (X)HTML is, I guess semantics (meaning) is the goal, so maybe it’s okay. Also, I do really like the ‘layered’ part, which suggests the idea of organizing around different qualia. And nothing like a TLA to convince the PHBs of the ROI of LSM.
Okaaay, back to work.
(before that, this is a stupendously awesome troll (now at 0, Insightful — YHBT. YHL. HAND.)
Kerry quotes Bible, irks Bush camp
ST. LOUIS — Sen. John Kerry cited a Bible verse Sunday to criticize leaders who have “faith but has no deeds,” prompting President George W. Bush’s spokesman to accuse Kerry of exploiting scripture for political gain.
Oh my, now that’s funny.
kid koala == ‘teh roxors’
Ninja Tune is doing this sort of globehopping tour thing called Zen TV. If they pass by, I definitely recommend it (the show started way early and I was running behind so I missed Blockhead and Diplo, but caught Bonobo, Kid Koala, and Amon Tobin). Great sets by all, but Kid Koala was definitely the stand-out. If you get a chance to see him, definitely go. And yes, it is more fun if you’re dancing.
OK, I’ve been behind on the memery, but I got around to installing and trying out Quicksilver, and yes, it does quick LaunchBar’s ass. (which isn’t to say that LaunchBar wasn’t one of the best $40 I’ve ever spent on software, but merely that it’s been superceded). At this point, just about all the utilities on my PB are either free or Free. The only things I’m really missing from is a good alarm clock, work timer, and desktop calendar (hmm, GeekTool w/ WebKit support might solve that). I wonder how long until an OSS version of Konfabulator is released?
If you’re just getting started, be sure to check out Remy’s quick tutorial.
I’m in the process of migrating servers, so you’ll probably see some funkiness. I’ve switched the DNS A Name to the new machine, should be percolating around soon.
I’ve forgotten how much I’ve come to depend on CRM114. Out of the last 100 messages, 67 were spam. (While I’m not getmailing, I’m using Apple Mail’s Bayesian, which works pretty well [I’ve train it along w/ CRM114])
