Category Archives: Rants

My New Word Of The Day – "Downstall"

Posted on August 1, 2005 by James McParlane

down·stall     Pronunciation Key  (dounstôl)tr.v. down·stall·ed, down·stall·ing, down·stalls To transfer (data or programs) from a server or host computer to one’s own computer or device and then set it in position and prepare for use.

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XML Standalone Voodoo

Posted on August 1, 2005 by James McParlane

The XML standalone declaration should always be last. The encoding declaration Second and the version info First. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”yes” ?> GOOD <?xml version=”1.0″ standalone=”yes” encoding=”UTF-8″ ?> BAD See the XML Prolog and document type declaration format for clarity on this Prolog [22]  … Continue reading →

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It's Funny Because It's True

Posted on July 19, 2005 by James McParlane

“A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you’re a great guy, … Continue reading →

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London Bombing

Posted on July 8, 2005 by James McParlane

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing? This is London. We’ve dealt with your sort before. You don’t try and pull this on us. Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you’re … Continue reading →

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MGM vs Grokster – This Bong Is Only For Decorative Purposes

Posted on June 30, 2005 by James McParlane

There is something that has always made me feel uncomfortable with application of the the Sony Beta-max defense wrt the litigation of P2P software.  Sony was selling a device and medium. A direct comparison with software transferring data over the internet is not … Continue reading →

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Regex Coach

Posted on June 30, 2005 by James McParlane

Yet another amazingly useful tool that I cant live without and need to reinstall since the accident…. http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/#install  

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Oh Lordy…

Posted on January 27, 2005 by James McParlane

Hey old friend – remember this? ;ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ;Û ;Û Source file for ‘ICE BREAKER’ OFFICIAL RELEASE Version 1.2. ;Û MAAS Modem Battle Language Interpreter By DrMiaow ;Û This Script By Morpheus Black – Adapted from AUSPAC PAD Scanner by DrMiaow … Continue reading →

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Subtextual – Very Cool Language Demo

Posted on January 25, 2005 by James McParlane

http://subtextual.org/demo1.html Looks a lot like RIDE – execution model is copy based – very much like the original old BSCAL /MetaWrap VM. They even have the factorial demo. I’m very impressd with it – it looks much nicer than anything I have … Continue reading →

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Shhh – Busy Thinking

Posted on January 19, 2005 by James McParlane

Painted a shed. Thinking about current step in parser code. In a non coding mood – nesting with real world things. Wired up my old keyboard amp to sit under the desk and act as a subwoofer. Reading a good … Continue reading →

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Complexity Management And Temporal Pricing

Posted on November 10, 2004 by James McParlane

Saw a great talk (by Mark Pesce at XmediaLab ) on the future of digital media distribution. He talked about what we like to call “network optomisation” when pitching this kind of distribution medium to clients, AKA “peer to peer” (p2p) networking … Continue reading →

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