FAO mr_tom

[hirez]

http://www.libeljournal.com/malarkey/index.rdf

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Um... is that meant to do anything other than poke up some XML in my browser? My OS doesn't know what an RDF file is.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Bosh!

Top-notch, thanks!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Not really, no.

We were discussing Situationism in the pub the other night... Well, in point of fact, it began with a requirement for hacked Cyberdog t-shirts to do speech-to-scrolling-text to save howling in someone's ear in a noisy club, and we sort of wandered off at a tangent.

It's supposed to be looked at in a news-ticker application.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Now I'm picturing two people in nightclubs with LED t-shirts scrolling

"Speak up"

"Sorry, I can't hear you"

"Didn't quite catch that"

[hirez.livejournal.com]

No problem.

It needs more data, though.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There would be terrible possibilities in the event of subtext-to-scroller transcoding:

"... Dear Christ look at the state of that... "
"ease go away, you ming... Pl"

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Data Set (http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html).

Actually, I'm just installing Ruby, as I'm keen to have a play with Ruby on Rails, and I reckon that this could be a hideously over-engineered demo system. :-)

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That reminds me.

Spotted: http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=SCRBADVAR

It looks like you can program it over IR, which seems to be a bit of a security hole to me, as your message could be changed by anyone with a Palm or similar...

I'm thinking about getting one for the bike.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Whatever gets the code out of your fingers, I think.

The ugly perl + XML::RSS (No Winering here) is the sort of thing I need to prod myself into doing more of - I tend to stare at simple problems a little too hard since I can't quite work out how to do what I want. Where in fact if I just get on and bosh it out, it turns out I did know what wanted doing all along.

Don't mind me, I'm having a think with my hands.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... Oh, and:

Remote hackability strikes me as a feature. Personal Blinkenlicht. Yes.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Well he's serving is as application/rdf+xml, which is just a little odd.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Is it?

That's going to be one of Gradwell's httpd.conf or something in XML::RSS isn't it. Hm.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Well, it's kind of retro. it's not _wrong_, seeing as how you're using RSS1.0 which is the RDF-based flavour. However it's more important to highlight the RSS nature of things than the RDF nature of things (RDF is just plumbing, albeit more high-level plumbing than XML). This content-type confuses the hell out of all the obviosu Firefox-hosted RSS tools I pointed at it.

These days most people are switching to Atom (although probably not in The Big Shed).

Today I wrote this:
http://www.gamesradar.com/rss/ps2/

Tomorrow I shall try and sort out the encoding bugs, and why the fecking Great Architect decided to write his own XML serializer (which runs like a 3 legged whippet and doesn't handle encodings properly)

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7086/

though..

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7548/