http://log.does-not-exist.org/ Thomas Roessler's notes on geek life in Luxembourg -- and less virtual topics.]]> en-us roessler@does-not-exist.org Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:38:46 +0000 http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2009/04/18/2179_dopplr_v_tripit_use_both.html I've been on dopplr for quite a while and found it fun and useful. After some raving notes on Twitter, I decided to give TripIt a spin. Where dopplr's claim to fame is the social networking aspect, TripIt's is that... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2009/03/27/2178_persistence_is_hard.html Keeping historical documents around is hard, as my native city of Cologne painfully experienced a few weeks ago, when the city archive collapsed. But it's also hard on the web. Case in point, a number of important early specifications for... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2009/02/22/2177_facebook_me.html While I'm usually comfortable using social networks of all kinds, I hadn't ever joined Facebook. Well, the recent ruckus about their terms of service tickled my interest sufficiently that I finally gave in. There really is no such thing as... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/10/29/2176_election_transparency_good_vote_transparency_bad.html Google is encouraging people to video their vote. That sounds like a good idea, in particular where difficulties with voting machines are to be expected. Just one caveat: I'd rather that voters don't video who they vote for. Classical paper... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/09/23/2175_attached_please_find_icanns_proposal_to_sign_the_root_zone_file_with_dnssec_technology.html ICANN has just published an exchange of letters with the US Department of Commerce, around a proposal to deploy DNSSEC in the DNS's root. Letter from Paul Twomey to Meredith Baker, 2 September Letter from MEredith Baker to Paul Twomey,... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/09/21/2174_iphone_3g_im_not_buying_it.html Every once in a while, I'm at risk of falling for the iPhone -- it's a really nice device after all, and from day one, the user interface had something going for it. The first generation of the device was... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/09/01/2173_building_an_ipv6_bridgehead.html For no good reason in particular, I started looking into IPv6 this week-end. The quick summary first: It works. It's not really difficult to set up. But it's not easy enough, either. The first realization was that the Macintoshs on... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/08/27/2172_rss_feeds_icann_correspondence_and_minutes.html It seems like ICANN doesn't have RSS feeds for its correspondence and minutes pages. Well, two quick screen-scrapers later: Correspondence RSS feed Minutes RSS feed (These are updated hourly. If anybody on the ICANN webmaster staff reads this, I'm happy... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/07/20/2171_si_tacuisses_enrique_.html Among the great privileges of working at W3C is the occasional geeking with people like Michael Sperberg-McQueen's evil twin Enrique. Enrique's latest is on what RDF gets us. In that blog item, RDF is characterized as an extremely thin semantic... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/07/03/2170_youtube_data_disclosures_the_limits_of_data_governance.html Wired.com reports that a US judge compelled YouTube Google to turn over its complete user logs - including time stamps and IP addresses, which might be used to discover the real life identity behind a request. Denied motions in the... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/05/27/2169_some_recent_talks_usability_policy_languages_widgets_and_html5.html Blogging has been light here for a while, though Twittering hasn't. The past few months have seen a busy travel schedule and a number of talks; maybe time to quickly dump links to the various slide sets here: At RSA... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/02/23/2168_enough_with_the_mac_blogging_already.html ... but before we return topics here to more productive things, let's note that Apple's support has so far been rather more impressive than IBM's: After exchanging some e-mails with their service provider here in Luxembourg and a phone call... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/02/17/2167_time_machine_desiderata.html Apart of the wireless and case problems, I'm actually a reasonably happy Mac user -- which is, indeed, somewhat surprising after 10 years of Linux on the desktop. Among the things I like a lot with MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) is... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/02/15/2166_macbook_distractions.html I had ranted before about the occasional trouble that I'm experiencing with the MacBook's wireless card. The symptoms continue to occur: Typically at home (when the machine is in the same place and sits on my desk for extended amounts... http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2008/02/03/2165_geocaching_waypoints_for_n95_and_friends.html I've gotten a bit curious about geocaching. However, being the lazy type, there is no way that I'll enter all these waypoints manually on a mobile phone keyboard. Therefore, here's an XSLT sheet to convert geocaching LOC files to Nokia...