May 08, 2003
Where is RSSBayes?
SpamBayes doesn't know any of these rules. It just knows what I want to see, and what I don't want to see. It knows because I show it a bunch of positive and negative examples up front, and then refine its understanding of my wishes continuously as I process my (surprisingly few) MaybeSpam messages. [Jon's Radio]
I've never gotten much spam. I closely guard the email addresses I care about. Spamex makes it simple but I did it before without Spamex. My problem is information overload. I'm much more interested in seeing the same thing for RSS. Instead of blocking stuff I don't want I want it to highlight the stuff I might want.
I've been out of the loop lately because I can't keep up with all of the feeds I would like to monitor. I need help.
January 15, 2003
Warning: The road ahead may be icy
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Combine something like that with Microsoft's DirectBand Technology and a SPOT device with GPS and you can imagine the types of things that Joshua Allen was talking about.
Imagine your car radio announcing that surface temperatures in your area are dangerously low.
Imagine looking up flight information on your PDA based on the flights that are currently bound for your nearest airport. Imagine if that list was sorted by each flight's ETA.
January 07, 2003
Is the debugger running?
Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart wonder:
I was wondered if there's a way to have your code programmatically determine if it's running in debug or release mode.
This reminded me of a trick that I saw recently.
using System.Diagnostics; namespace IsDebuggerPresent { class WaitWhenDebugging { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); if(System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached) { Console.WriteLine("Press enter to continue..."); Console.Read(); } } } } |
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It doesn't do what Sean & Scott need but it is still handy.
December 30, 2002
Adding to the Corpse Pile
Why do Neighborhoods form? Ant Corpse Piles.
Just like Ant Corpse Piles, if I link to you and you link to me that brings our weblogs closer together. The more we talk about similar stuff the more likely we are to cross link to each other. The more links to each other and the more links from us to similar material on the web the closely Google thinks we are related. The habit of 'welcoming' new bloggers with simlar interests by linking to their site with a welcome message only grows the pile. [Joe Gregorio]
How long before new webloggers are greeted with "just adding to the corpse pile"? ;-)
Thanks for the meme Joe.
December 29, 2002
SOAP over stdin/stdout
Do Groove Web Services really need a local web server? Wouldn’t it be better to do SOAPover standard input and standard output when you just need to integrate on a single machine?
Granted, Groove needs HTTPfor the remote case, but it seems like it would be handy to be able to pipe SOAPmessages to and fro on the command line…am I crazy? Is anybody already doing this with Xml with or without SOAP?