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Si uno quiere hacer cualquier cosa con Atom, formato de sindicación y también API de acceso, parece conveniente pasarse por AtomEnabled.org.

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Lo mío es un sinvivir. Me hago un test llamado 20 Questions to a Better Personality y me sale que soy ¡un político! Dice también que no soy demasiado racional. Cianuro tendría que tomar.

You are an SECL–Sober Emotional Constructive Leader. This makes you a politician. You cut deals, you change minds, you make things happen. You would prefer to be liked than respected, but generally people react to you with both. You are very sensitive to criticism, since your entire business is making people happy.

At times your commitment to the happiness of other people can cut into the happiness of you and your loved ones. This is very demanding on those close to you, who may feel neglected. Slowly, you will learn to set your own agenda–including time to yourself.

You are gregarious, friendly, charming and charismatic. You like animals, sports, and beautiful cars. You wear understated gold jewelry and have secret bad habits, like chewing your fingers and fidgeting.

You are very difficult to dislike.

Eso último no es verdad. Conozco mucha gente a la que le caigo fatal.

(vía mamamusings)

Joni Karanka de El asiento del alma se nos va a Cardiff a investigar. Suerte.

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Mark Fiore se marca un genial cartoon sobre el voto electrónico. «In programmers we trust», cierto.

(vía Joho the Blog)

Vemos que la TVE socialista no es más respetuosa con la cultura que la popular. Los nuevos gestores (¿no iban a acabar con los programas basura?) no vacilan en jugar con las heces de antaño y reponer la basura de Planeta encantado. Defecar sobre la historia, se ve, es una tentación irresistible. En cualquier caso, como con el contacto con excremento puede causar enfermedades, les dejo unas vacunillas.

Carlos E. Perez ofrece una lista de proyectos Java muy poco conocidos que se muestran muy útiles. Evidentemente, la utilidad depende de lo que a uno le interese o esté haciendo en cada momento. Con eso en cuenta, son muy interesante, ciertamente.

1. Joda Time – Finally a respectable replacement for the Java date and time classes. Hope this relieves you from working with the unbelievably cumbersome Calendar class.

2. Noodle – The perfect Java project is one that lets you write less Java code. So use this when it’s just not worth it to rewrite legacy Web sites in Java.

3. VMTools – Knowing what’s changed is critical if you want to handle optimistic locking. Now if only they could give a proper name for the project.

4. mec-eagle – You can’t always avoid having to process legacy messaging formats like EDI. Of course, you’ve got to hand it to the Germans for being so concise at naming their projects.

5. Mondrian – Slice and dice data like there’s no tomorrow. No wonder nobody remembers this project, just look at its URL!

6. Multivalent – The most comprehensive collection of PDF manipulation tools that nobody has ever heard of. It just takes a while to sink in that if you can display PDF then you can surely manipulate it.

7. Hipergate – Surprisingly comprehensive CRM application, could give Salesforce.com the jitters. Unfortunately, it took them a while to translate from Spanish.

8. JTextCheck – Comprehensive Java API to support all kinds of text checking functionality. Includes spell checking, dictionaries, thesaurus and hyphenation checking.

9. XBIS – Having a problem with extremely bloated XML files? Supercedes XMLS, if you recall that project.

10. Directory Poller – How often do you have to rewrite this functionality before you realize that it has already been done?

Enlaces a bastantes herramientas y documentos que pueden ayudar en el desarrollo de aplicaciones Java para el Nokia 6600. En realidad, asumo que valen para cualquier teléfono de la serie 60 con MIDP 2.0.

Y ya que hablamos de los tres millones de bitácoras que ahora sigue Technorati, aquí hay algunas estadísticas impresionantes:

We’re currently seeing anywhere from 8,000-17,000 new weblogs created every single day.

On an average weekday, we’re seeing over 15,000 new weblogs created per day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds.

Technorati tracking graph of weblog growthOf course, not all weblogs that are created are actively updated. Even though abandonment rates are high – our analyses show that about 45% of the weblogs we track have not had a post in over 3 months we are still tracking a significant population of people who are posting each day. The number of conversations are increasing. We’re seeing over 275,000 individual posts every day. That means that on average, more than 3 blogs are updated every second.

Technorati ya le sigue la pista a 3 millones de bitácoras. Mientras tanto, la Wikipedia tiene ya 300.000 artículos. Como referencia, la enciclopedia Britannica contiene 85.000. Como se dice:

The first generation of dot coms may have blown up, but the user-made web is growing faster than ever.

(vía rc3.org)

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En dos palabras im-presionante. Una aventura de Spiderman interpretada por piezas de Lego (es muy grande, lo advierto) con la técnica de stop-motion. Lo que refuerza mi teoría de que en internet hay gente con mucho talento y mucho tiempo libre.

Actualización: La película la ha creado una empresa llamada Spite Your Face.

(vía BoingBoing)