Norm's musings. Make of them what you will.

This weblog is part experimental playground, part soap box, and part pleasant diversion for me. Here you’ll find opinions, technical and otherwise, photographs, and whatever interests me when I sit down to write. If you'd like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds.

SVG Calendars, 31 Jan 2012

In MarkLogic, XML
A little XQuery magic for making SVG calendars.

Mobile phone blues, 31 Jan 2012

In Android
Running CyanogenMod7 on my T-Mobile G2. Cyan is a sort of blue, get it?

The short-form week of 23–29 Jan 2012, 30 Jan 2012

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 16–22 Jan 2012, 23 Jan 2012

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

Google+ Postings, 22 Jan 2012

In shortform
A review, one Google+ posting at a time.

Countdown to XML Prague!, 19 Jan 2012

In MarkLogic, XML, XMLPrague2012
See you again in Prague!

The short-form week of 9–15 Jan 2012, 16 Jan 2012

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

XML Calabash 0.9.44, 10 Jan 2012

In Calabash, Java, Programming, XML, XProc
Announcing what I hope is the last pre-1.0 beta release of XML Calabash.

The short-form week of 2–8 Jan 2012, 09 Jan 2012

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 26 Dec 2011–1 Jan 2012, 02 Jan 2012

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 19–25 Dec 2011, 26 Dec 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

DocBook XSD!, 22 Dec 2011

In DocBook, XML
I believe that I've resolved the ambiguity problems evident in the previous release.

SSD, II, 21 Dec 2011

In Laptop, OSX
Some thoughts on successfully configuring a working dual-drive system.

DocBook XSD?, 19 Dec 2011

In DocBook, XML
But is it valid? Not the document, the schema?

The short-form week of 12–18 Dec 2011, 19 Dec 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 33 messages in 27 conversations. (With 4 favorites.)

Where in the world: a year in travel, 16 Dec 2011

In MarkLogic, Travel
MarkLogic Server + XQuery + Google Maps = Fast, fun app.

SSD, 13 Dec 2011

In Laptop, OSX
Some thoughts on my utter failure to configure a working dual-drive system.

The short-form week of 5–11 Dec 2011, 12 Dec 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 20 messages in 18 conversations. (With 3 favorites.)

The short-form week of 28 Nov–4 Dec 2011, 05 Dec 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 58 messages in 50 conversations. (With 8 favorites.)

DocBook Stylesheets 2.0.3 released, 01 Dec 2011

In DocBook
Another snapshot of the continuing improvements to the XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for DocBook.

The short-form week of 21–27 Nov 2011, 28 Nov 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 50 messages in 52 conversations. (With 12 favorites.)

The short-form week of 14–20 Nov 2011, 21 Nov 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 38 messages in 42 conversations. (With 8 favorites.)

Emacs, Unicode, and single quotes, 19 Nov 2011

In Emacs, Unicode
At the intersection of typographic style and technology: proper curly quotes.

The short-form week of 7–13 Nov 2011, 14 Nov 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 47 messages in 45 conversations. (With 4 favorites.)

Snowpocalypse, 10 Nov 2011

In HomeRepair, Travel
A few words and pictures about the October storm.

The Grand Canyon, 09 Nov 2011

In Photography, Travel
A short, photographic tour of a visit to the Grand Canyon.

The short-form week of 31 Oct–6 Nov 2011, 07 Nov 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 16 messages in 17 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)

The short-form week of 24–30 Oct 2011, 31 Oct 2011

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 60 messages in 47 conversations. (With 11 favorites.)

Congratulations Geert!, 25 Oct 2011

In XML, XProc
Congratulations to Geert on his winning entry to the XML Holland 2011 Challenge.

Plus this!, 24 Oct 2011

In TheWeb
You want to be tracked, why, exactly?

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