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Date archive: 2004

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2004

December
22 Oh, the places I've been! (2004)
20 DocBook.org is moving
18 Cookie Saturday
17 Even more on version identifiers and XML
16 Version identifiers and XML: continuing the conversation
15 Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
Version Identifiers and XML
14 Pretensions to Art
Real
Faux
13 A Vice of One's Own
107 Stories. Straight down.
10 The Pursuit of Pleasure
7 webarch.pdf
3 Cats in Las Vegas
2 Annotations Revisited
November
23 Kodachrome Memories
22 XQuery Man
19 XML 2004
Overheard at XML 2004
11 DocBook NG: The “Gin” Release
10 XML 2.0
9 Fall Wine Festival 2004
Taking the Long View
8 Wifi at BDL
5 Web Architecture Proposed Recommendation!
2 Botched Sonnets
Mobile Devices
Go Vote!
October
26 JAXP 1.3 at java.net
25 Autumn Reds
22 DocBook Dinner
18 Windows Backup Software?
An Unpaid Political Advertisement
DocBook NG: The “Frangelico” Release
8 On the Walls of Basel
Fountains of Basel
Münster Statuary
Münster Cathedral
4 Quote…quote?
Basel, CH
Model Hacking
3 Pub Signs UK, Fall 2004 Edition
2 Blickling Pyramid Cache
1 Dizzy @ Felbrigg Hall Cache
Cromer Cathedral
Felbrigg Hall
September
30 Think Left!
XML 1.1: Dead on Arrival
28 Dishwasher Repair
27 Or What?
23 Random Shots
20 New Laptop!
16 Annotation Markup
15 DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.66.0
13 Laptop Decisions
11 A Sonnet a day
10 Annotations
9 Talk To Me
8 A Topic Map for norman.walsh.name
5 Route 202 Quabbin Overlook Cache
Pelham Murder?? Headstone Cache
3 Apps That Matter
2 DocBook Tutorial at XML 2004
1 Blogroll
August
27 Jewelweed
26 Good M{o,r,n,i,n}g
25 New Laptop?
Photo Feed
Itinerary How To
23 Wistariahurst
13 Overheard at a Working Group Meeting
Magnifi-mint Cache
12 Ottawa, CA
8 They Ran Fiber All the Way to the End of the Dirt Road
Extreme DocBook
Extremely Good Again
7 Bombardier Dash 8 Series 300
6 House On Fire Cache
Extreme Toys
3 DocBook NG: The “Eaux-de-vie” Release
XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 Tutorial
1 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
July
30 Is RDF/XML Good for Anything?
sxpipe: An Implementation of Simple XML Pipelines
27 DocBook Title Pages with XSLT 2.0
25 A Promise of Red
Validating XSLT 2.0
24 Cadwell Cache
23 DocBook NG: The “Drambuie” Release
21 XML Unicode V1.6
16 Mellow Yellow
Essay Relationships
14 Kernel 2.6.7 Non-Event
Dates for Atom Entries
Three Dates for Atom
12 Style of a Different Sort
11 A Little CSS Frustration
8 iPod Gadgets
Ding!
6 CrackinUp Cache
Top of the Notch Cache
5 Nevada and Utah from 34,000 Feet
1 Whole Lot of Shakin’ Cache
Pacific Heights Cache
A New Low
June
28 Joining the Creative Commons
25 DocBook at XML 2004
YARAM!
22 Catch The Brass Ring Cache
21 13:38
20 Holland Glen Cache
SXPipe: Simple XML Pipelines
Why Pipelines?
XML Activity Rechartered
16 Lake Bottom Cache
14 Is It the APIs, Stupid?
10 Narrow Browsers
9 Shut Up and U0298 Me!
Expectations Achieved
7 Summer Flowers and Metadata
4 Life with DVR
2 Going Extreme in Montréal
May
31 Tim on Keith and Angle Brackets
29 365; 204; 185,681; 31,593,104,473
28 More on the XSLT/XQuery Thread
26 DocBook NG: The “Cachaça” Release
21 Color Me Un-Impress-ed
19 XQuery 1.0 or XSLT 2.0?
Infoset Equality
18 CSS or Tables?
17 Not Quite 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Congratulations!
16 TAG face-to-face
12 Maybe I Rate After All
11 Perl Bug?
9 Homeward Bound
8 Best of…
7 Day of the Iguana
6 Go West!
5 St. John
4 Shopping
3 Coki Point
2 Paradise
1 On Vacation
April
30 iPod
29 DocBook Wiki Reborn
28 Praise for Thursday Next
Software is Interesting
27 A Week of Random Thoughts
Toshiba Warranty Repair: Five Stars
16 North on 101
Overheard at a Working Group Meeting
Tracking Hacks
14 Bistromathmatics
Electronics Miscellany
Broken Infrastructure
12 Speaking at CDE
6 CVS, Dates, and Validation
4 Specs on Your Palm
3 Broken Browsers
2 Not in RDF
1 DocBook V4.3
March
31 Dinner with Vermeer
30 Can You “Sex It Up” a Little?
28 New Server
It’s Spring!
26 Extreme Deadlines
23 The Villains are Winning
22 “Referrer Spam”
20 12:04
19 CSS, Baby!
14 Public Identifier Transcription in RFC 3151
Three Dates for Atom
Back to Blickling
13 More Pub Signs
No Bug$?
What It Is
12 Antwerp, Belgium
Baconsthorpe Castle
10 White Space
Liverpool Street Station
9 More Blog Housekeeping
7 What Is It?
6 La Clé
Sunrise
3 On the Web, My Name is 266 North Pleasant Street
1 Eastward Bound
February
27 Happy Birthday, Ongoing!
The Largest Wiki in the Universe
25 Evolution, Druids, and Wombats
22 Mostly Minty
19 XML Interop, DocBook, and Ease of Use
3 I Don’t Rate
1 Shadows, Mirrors, and Metadata
January
31 International Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
Baffled Human? Mouse Baffle!
29 xsi:type Train Wreck
28 Blog Design Fiddling
26 Trackbacks
23 Tampa (and Chicago)
22 Editing with Oxygen
20 Atom Feeds
19 This is application/xhtml+xml
A Better Vocabulary in Just 10 Spams a Day
18 This is text/html
When is a Website Like a Pogostick?
17 This is application/xml
16 Palm Icons
13 Rebuked
12 On Atom and Postel’s Law
9 DocBook NG: The “Bourbon” Release
4 Blossoms in Winter
2 Going to Extremes!
1 DocBook NG: The “Absinthe” Release