Month: November 2002

On the ‘to do’ list, master apt-get for the new Yellow Dog Linux box…

There’s an Apple iPhoto Promo going on. If you haven’t gotten a book using iPhoto yet, I highly recommend it.

We got a used refrigerator recently, and while it was suggested that transporting it upright was the way to go, we transported it on it’s side. After the initial startup, and a day of running, it was determined that it was not cold enough. We worried. We wondered. Had we done something wrong? Is it ok to transport a refrigerator on it’s side? Never fear, I consulted Google, and found out that it is ok, as long as you allow the oil to drain back down to the motor, we waited long enough, two days in fact. I ended up cleaning the coils and everything else, and raising it up a bit off the floor. Soon all was well, it was cold as it should be. Oh, the most interesting thing Google had to tell me was the story of moving a refrigerator with a bike! Bikes at Work has lots of other neat bike realted stuff too… Thanks Google! (We used a van, btw…)

Says Dave Winer:

REST was a retrofit by people who don’t like personal computers to try to stop progress in building GUI software that ran over the Internet.

I must admit that I am no expert on REST or SOAP, but I really doubt the people who created SOAP said to themselves: Hmmm, we need a protocol that will stop the progress of building GUI software that runs over the internet. Oh, and we don’t like personal computers! It almost sounds like FUD on Dave’s part…

For info on REST, you can see Paul’s REST Resources. I took a quick look, and didn’t find any mention of stopping the progress of building GUI software that runs over the internet, or not liking personal computers…

Did you know the W3C has a Link Checker written in perl, and you can download it?