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OASIS? XML? Permanence?

OASIS? XML? Permanence?Heck even data crystalscan be corrupted by Techno Mages! I doubt that any data storage plan is good for 60 years - and even if you COULD find a medium that can hold data for 60 years, a human could find a way to lose it. I suppose...

Tags: OpenOffice, XML, OASIS, Shostakovich, OpenOffice.org

Discussion threads 2005-11-22

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Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?

Today is the 27th birthday of the Compact Disc, and I hate to say it, but I think this medium is getting a little old. Perhaps 27 years in CD time is actually like turning 87 in human time: it had a good go in the...

Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Orchestra, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil

(This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...

Tags: Unanswered questions, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Coding as Art

A long time ago, after one stultifying conversation too many, I worked out a definition of "art" that I've stuck with ever since. Art, I maintain, consists of expressing as much as possible within the tightest possible set of constraints. Look at the history of music and that's what...

Tags: bridge, software

Blog posts 2006-09-22

Captain Cyborg and the problem of evil

While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker replacement, and those focused on enabling...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2005-12-16

OASIS? XML? Permanence?

My favorite CD has Ormandy's Philadephia orchestra playing the Shostakovich fifth. The recording was made in I think 1963 with the CD replacing the LP sometime in the early ninties. Microsoft's mindshare means that whatever it calls XML becomes XML.Both, however, still work as well as they ever did with...

Tags: XML

Blog posts 2005-11-22