Author Archives: Owen

Gimme, Bigboard, etc.

April 4, 2007 – 10:49 am

Alex : I just wanted to quickly respond here to the points that you raise. First, Bigboard is not some huge skunkworks project; it’s a prototype with slightly more than one person working on it for slightly more than one month, with all the source code in an open repository. And before we put any […]

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Element identity and structured data in XML

September 29, 2006 – 10:18 am

Like most people, my first experience with XML was with document formats: XHTML, SVG and so forth. So I’ve always had the idea that an XML element represents some sort of platonic ideal object: if you have an HTML anchor element or a SVG path element, it’s well defined what it means, and what the […]

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Just like Riding a Bike

June 18, 2006 – 7:50 pm

I’ve been putting the old saying “It’s just like riding a bike, you never forget” to the test this weekend, having avoided that particular activity for the last 20 years. I’m considering buying a bike and doing some riding as a more air-cooled form of summer exercise, so I rented one this weekend to regain […]

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There are no harmless race conditions

June 12, 2006 – 11:01 am

I spent most of Friday tracking down a problem we had been seeing with the Mugshot Windows client for months, where important parts of the client (Mugshot.exe) would mysteriously vanish from the system. This happened to both Bryan and Havoc when we pushed a new client release last week. Using information from that, combined with […]

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Do they have sheep in Burma?

March 7, 2006 – 9:01 pm

Warning: the following is not for those overly squeamish about dietary fat, nor for the ethnic cuisine purist. I made the following stew on Sunday and have been feasting on the leftovers for the last two nights. It has no actual connection to Burma (or Myanmar), other than the combination of South and Southeast Asian […]

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