- Sending image links via Opensearch
- Plethora of long distance options
- The appeal of the great but imperfect
- Notelets
- Today's pictures
- Yesterday's pictures
- Open Threads
Sending image links via Opensearch
How does one transmit information about images in opensearch? The examples I've seen all embed img HTML tags in the description. We're going to use the ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
enclosure tag in RSS 2.0 and later experiment with the Media RSS extension for RSS 2.0
Plethora of long distance options
I've installed Skype, considered Vonage, but I might try Compare 10-10 phone rates and save on long distance service! for long distance calls. I'm not happy with the calling cards I've used, with their terrible voice quality and nasty sorta-hidden-use-or-lose-salting-away charges. Calling From Abroad at Reasonable Rates - New York Times is a helpful article in this area.
The appeal of the great but imperfect
Boy, I wish I could talk directly to Milosz or a prophet of old. As a Christian, I believe that we can pray directly to the One In Charge, the Lord God Almighty. Alas, that isn't enough for me. I want to consult unearthly wise people who had walked before me on this planet, who struggled with pain, doubt, temptation, and defeat. I believe that Jesus did all those things, and hence, God can sympathize with our plight as humans. Yet Jesus did not sin. I want to commune with great but frail people who sinned as I have. I want to ask how they kept going even while they bumbled and messed things up. To his credit, Jesus never screwed up -- he was perfect.
Let there be no mistaking me: it's the greatest news that Jesus was both like us and not like us. He showed us that there is a way beyond our own individual and collective quagmires. I don't need a besmirched Jesus. Yet, even as a card-carrying Protestant, I confess to the appeal of holding up a pantheon of capital-S Saints, those who fall between us and perfection.
Notelets
Work
"The Scholar's Box is a closet" -- a quote from a colleague.
Bitter Harvest: Problems & Suggested Solutions for OAI-PMH Data & Service Providers is helpful for anyone involved in aggregating metadata from others or providing metadata to others.
The theme of the workshop is Integrating Services - Integrating Standards. We hope to answer the question: "What are the next steps towards improving integration of services?" We think SRU will play a central role.
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Stderr runs a command and merges its stderr into its stdout. Therefore, redirecting or piping stdout is equivalent to doing the same thing to stderr as well.
I used this utility to capture error messages in a text file on Windows a few days ago.
Personal
eastbayexpress.com | News & Features | City of Warts | Let the Bulldozing Commence | 2006-01-11:
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On to the California Department of Health Services laboratory, at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way. On one end, you have the Gourmet Ghetto. On the other end, you have downtown Berkeley's movie theaters, restaurants, and nightclubs. But for some reason, there's an eerie no-man's-land that keeps the two from becoming one grand boulevard of eateries and nightlife. That'd be the intervening parking lot and hideous eight-story monolith, where worker bees once toiled in research laboratories run by the state Department of Health Services.
Yes, tear it down -- but just keep the parking lots!
More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement - New York Times. Another story about how companies (even companies that are doing really well) are moving away from their pension plans, shifting the long-term risk to employees.
Last weekend, I learned about the Jewish concept of Lashon hara, making me more conscious of my own need for good talk.
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