Hotmail seems to be shuffling its numbers around significantly thisweek, to my surprise. I'm not sure the result is really better, butit's certainly different:
I'm a big fan of simple markup languages for writing web pages (or infact any sort of document; it just happens that web sites are prettymuch everything I write these days). Recently I figured out a goodexpression of why:
Simple markup languages are the same idea as high level programminglanguages: less make-work and more of what actually matters.
(And as an added bonus, less interruption of my writing to sprinkleHTML all over.)
Languages like C and Java have a bunch
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One of the most exciting presentation at the recent linux.conf.au 2006 conference(ironically held in New Zealand) was Van Jacobson's talk on speeding upthe Linux networking stack. On a TCP stack that he says is already oneof the fastest going, he managed to well over double the performance,while removing and simplifying code, even in driver hot paths.
(For more details, see David Miller's summary here ;Van Jacobson's slides are here (1.4
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過去在台北買書，多數有遺憾，既有家人朋友在旁等候的心理負擔，也有時間無多的現實壓力，以前心態不健康，饑不擇食，見到心頭好馬上就買，往往未考慮清楚即付了錢，家中兩個書房空間
今天在 EZone 看到這麼一個電腦教學：「Web 2.0 網頁製作基本功，簡易建立 Blog 網頁」。文章的開首如是說：
近期以 Web 2.0 概念製作的網頁愈來愈流行，當中以 Blog (網誌) 最受歡迎，因它可幫用戶來記錄自己的鎖事，分享給好友觀
Recently I read Doc Searls' The Chronological Web , where he argues (as the CentreSource blog entry that led me to his entry puts it) that most organizations need a blog.But what really made me sit up was this bit towards the end:
This helps, for example, when we talk to civilians who are new tothe Web and want to "put up a website". Very often what they reallyneed is a blog. [...] Updating a "site" is achore.