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Attack of the Formatting Phantom

It’s amazing what a few rogue HTML tags can do when put in the wrong place. I had attempted to post some of Jon Udell’s description of InfoPath. In the process of editing his HTML in the Radio UserLand in-browser editor, I missed a few closing table tags. When Radio put in its two-cents-worth of [...]

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Saturday, May 31st, 2003

InfoPath and OneNote

. The next version of Microsoft Office is, among other things, a family of XML editors. I have discussed the XML modes of Word and Excel (see and ), and described the newest member of this family, InfoPath 2003, a tool for gathering XML data (see ). Now that I’ve had a chance to [...]

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Saturday, May 31st, 2003

Changed computers with Radio, and it worked! (Sort of…)

OK, I did it. I changed computers with Radio Userland. I knew it was going to be a chore, but I got through it. pointed me to some , including one called that helped with adjust the internal file paths stored in Radio.root because the installation path on my new computer was on a different drive [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Tech Tips by jmiller

Friday, May 30th, 2003

The Patriot Act Has An Enemy

Dennis J. Kucinich: There is nothing patriotic about the loss of our civil liberties. [John Burkhardt] I don’t know much about this candidate yet, so I’m not endorsing him. But I do like two things about him: 1.) He has a weblog. Now that’s savvy, even though it really wasn’t his idea. 2.) He opposes [...]

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Friday, May 30th, 2003

Creativity, the Wiki, and RSS's Rival Descendants

. I am worried that the next-gen syndication process rooted in is in danger of going seriously off the rails, because some of the participants have got the idea that itâ€™s about trying to invent new technology or improve RSS…. [] Tim Bray puts in his two cents or two bits or whatever about the [...]

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Friday, May 30th, 2003

. “Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice-Metadata Research & Applications” in Seattle, Washington (USA) 28 September-2 October 2003 will consist of conference, workshop, and tutorial tracks. The number of available participants in the Metadata Search and Metadata Primer pre-conference workshops is limited so register early! []