The SVG Open 2005 conference starts today in the Netherlands. Kurt Cagle plans to blog about the conference. This year's conference is a bit out of reach for me (both geographically and technically) but I hope to attend next year if it's somewhere closer by. This is the fourth annual SVG conference, so from a conference point-of-view, it is still pretty young.
The SVG Wiki was once maintained at svg.org but had been overrun by spammers by March of this year. Rob and I had tried to clean it up a little but the open nature of a wiki made this a losing battle when the other side has automated spambots. Unfortunately this wiki was referenced all over the web, including by the W3C itself. Doug Schepers has made an effort to shuttle the wiki over to its new home at http://www.svg-whiz.com/wiki/ and secured it (accounts by request only). I'm glad to see this great resource has a new lease on life!
I wrote about my hard drive plans here, but what I ended up doing was purchasing a really cheap internal Maxtor SATA hard drive kit that Costco just started carrying ($170 for 300 GB). The kit comes with a SATA PCI adapter card, which is good because my home system only has a SCSI interface for hard drives. I've been waiting for the next Maxtor hard drive to show up at this price point at Costco. I figure buy it early to maximize the gains for the dollars spent (up until a few weeks ago they had been carrying a 250 GB SATA Maxtor kit for $160 and I was kicking myself for not hopping on that early). Read the rest of this entry ...
Kurt Cagle gives his view of the paradigm shift on the internet happening in the last couple years. It fits in nicely with some of my thoughts here.
I saw "Batman Begins" this weekend. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the first Batman with Michael Keaton (1989). This movie focuses more on story than we've seen in the past and Christian Bale makes a good Bruce Wayne. I particularly liked the scenes where Bruce Wayne has to pretend he is a carefree, reckless playboy in high society - makes me think how great it would be if Paris Hilton was really moonlighting as a crime-fighting superheroine trained in the martial arts and with an IQ of 200. Read the rest of this entry ...