Apple is avant-garde, as usual.

According to Ian Hickson, he’s had Microsoft developers tell him to his face that they’re not even remotely interested in better standards support for IE. The whole feedback thing is apparently only about new features for the Longhorn release. Or, as Joel would put it, more ‘fire and motion’. Seeing how browsers like Mozilla and [...]

I’ve registered with del.icio.us, so i’ve got my very own bookmark feed. RSS rules, allright?

Toshiba is one of the companies making great progress towards methanol fuel cells. While this is good, it is not the best solution. Today, methanol is still mostly produced from fossil fuels like natural gas (don’t…), so it’s not 100% environmentally friendly. What we really need is methanol produced from sugar crop or rapeseed. Off [...]

Sure, profits are up, but that’s it. It’s the same in Europe. Lately, the Organization of Belgian Corporations VBO has been optimistic about economic recovery. But so far no new jobs have been created, no new jobs are expected (except for temporary work), and employees should not expect any pay raise either this year. Meanwhile, [...]

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‘Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python.’ Sweet.

We could have kept it a secret. Mozilla had already become a much better browser than IE. We could have kept firing, while Microsoft was working on Longhorn, it’s very own Death Star. But no, we had to keep taunting them, lamenting how IE lacked in standards support, and transparent PNGs–stuff no consumer cares about. [...]

Building the Perfect Beast: The Igor Naming Guide to Creating Product and Company Names

International conference targets Internet hate speech:
A sticking point was whether the United States, which has championed nearly unfettered free speech, would line up with European countries that have banned racist or anti-Semitic speech in public.
This is a common mistake, made mostly by the left. No matter how good the intentions, no matter how bad the [...]

Back in ‘98, the whole blogging thing was still fresh, and Dave Winer started a free hosting service, called EditThisPage.com. It later evolved into Weblogs.com. Hans jumped at the occasion, invited Tom and I to join ngfl.editthispage.com. NGFL stands for Nice Guys Finish Last. Since then, Winer has left Userland, to teach at Harvard, and [...]

As expected, someone–Peter-Paul Koch, the self-proclaimed Javascript Guru–is already working on a Javascript implementation of Web Forms 2.0. Unfortunately, not to be expected before 2005. Still, I’m looking forward to using it. Peter-Paul, get a feed.

SVG, XForms Basic, Web Forms 2.0, Javascript 2.0, and… wait for it… Python!

Within days after the European Defence Agency (EDA) was approved by the Foreign Affairs Council, the European War Lobby is issuing a warning: spend more money on weapons or perish! They are urging Europe to compete with the USA’s out-of-control defence budget, otherwise the EDA could become “a fig leaf to cover the nakedness [...]

19th Century news going online: “More than a million pages from 19th Century British newspapers are to be put online by the British Library.”

Belgium’s Communist Party PVDA harbors one too many little dictators to be safe. LSP is too theoretical. Who the hell are SAP and STA OP? I hate the silly, intellectual, philosophical, nit-picking differences between left-wing parties. It often sounds like discussing the sex of angels. I can’t bring myself to learning the ideological differences. What [...]

I travel to and from work by streetcar, we call them trams. Any tram is sure to be crowded by a typical cross-section of Antwerp’s populace. Yesterday, there was an obnoxious woman sitting across the aisle from where I was sitting. She was yapping the entire ride–loudly, I wasn’t eavesdropping, the whole tram could hear–to [...]

The US have thourougly chmodded the new interim Iraqi government, full access to Western corporations. Some of the new leaders, especially in energy-related ministries, are in fact US citizens, or US-educated/indoctrinated stooges. Many have been living in the West for decades. It’s a safe bet that the new cabinet will be completely out of step [...]

The Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group is a loose, unofficial, and open collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties. The group aims to develop specifications based on HTML and related technologies to ease the deployment of interoperable Web Applications, with the intention of submitting the results to a standards organisation. This submission would [...]

My good friend Dieter pointed out to me that the styling of this site, is boring, or, as he puts it, ‘lacks the wow affect’. He is right off course. I hope to fix this in the coming weeks, but I’m still looking for an angle. A personal site is always a bit like a [...]