Movie Log April 8, 2007

List of favorite movies. Comments to follow.
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
8MM (1999)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A Good Year (2006)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
A Simple Plan (1998)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
All [...]

Podcasting Mechanics September 16, 2006

Podcasting is an automatic mechanism by which multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client, which pulls down XML files containing the Internet addresses of the media files. In general, these files contain audio or video, but also could be images, text, PDF, or any file type. 
A podcast is generally analogous to [...]

Graphics in XML: XSL-FO vs DTP September 13, 2006

Authoring in a markup based solution means giving up the idea of formatting as you write. Previously, formatting was by eye; with markup it will be by rule. Once a stylesheet is created, formatting by rule is faster and more consistent, but it does have
limitations.
Separate one dimensional components (linear text) form two dimensional components (graphics, charts, [...]