Title: David Baron's Weblog
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/

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Title: Political spectra
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-10#e20041002a
Date: Sat Oct 02 07:42:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Since politics is (are?) on my mind lately, I want to point out
an interesting site, <a shape="rect" href="http://politics.beasts.org/">Political
Survey</a>, which I first discovered when <a shape="rect" href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/02/02/mapping-things-out/">Eric
Meyer pointed it out</a> back in February.</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">It's interesting because it <a shape="rect" href="http://politics.beasts.org/rationale.shtml">uses principal
component analysis</a> to derive the axes from the data, rather than
trying to pick axes in advance.  It's also interesting because the most
significant axis it finds is the traditional left/right axis, but the
second axis isn't the libertarian/authoritarian axis that some assert
should be the second axisrather, it's a pragmatic/idealistic
axis.</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I've taken the survey twice, once in February and once today.  My
results were similar:  I was in the left/pragmatic <a shape="rect" href="http://politics.beasts.org/scripts/eigenvectors">quadrant</a> both
times.  (In February, I was -4.08 on right/left and +5.17 on
pragmatic/idealistic.  Today I was -3.63 on right/left and +4.65 on
pragmatic/idealistic.)</p>
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Title: A few (technical) thoughts
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-09#e20040922a
Date: Wed Sep 22 07:48:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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<li>My 1GB DIMM arrived Monday, and it works fine.  With memory prices
these days, getting that is much easier than worrying about fixing a bad
memory slot.</li>

<li>CSS error reporting is now enabled in trunk Mozilla builds.  Check
out the Javascript Console.</li>

<li>I compiled a custom Linux kernel Tuesday to try to get suspend and
resume working on my laptop, but it didn't help.  My display still
doesn't wake up on resume.  And perhaps other things don't either.  It's
a little hard to tell.  (The patches were the first patch and the second
variant of the second patch on a <a shape="rect" href="http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/#update">page about Linux on the
Dell D600</a>.  I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, but the video card is the
same).  I'll probably continue trying to get it working another time.</li>

<li>I wish GNU ld's <code>--gc-sections</code> option worked for shared
libraries.  (Even working when shared libraries are visible within five
miles would be nice!)  The main thing this would help Mozilla with is
getting rid of unneeded copies of constructors and destructors that <a shape="rect" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">gcc</a>'s C++ compiler emits.  And probably
also some unneeded vtables.  And maybe a good bit of other stuff.
(gcc could probably be a little better, but it's really a job for the
linker.)</li>

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Title: Bad memory
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-09#e20040911a
Date: Sat Sep 11 19:14:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">So this morning I was getting annoyed at the small amount of RAM in
my laptop.  Since I recently (after having the laptop for over a year)
got Linux to use my CPU at full speed instead of half speed (by adding
<code>DEVICE=&quot;acpi&quot;</code> to <code>/etc/cpuspeed.conf</code>), memory
has really seemed to be the limiting factor.  (Well, it has a slow disk
too.)  I've also been doing some things that use a lot of memory lately.
I wondered why I only got 256 MiB of RAM in the first placethat
didn't seem like something I'd do.  So, with the thought of buying more
RAM in mind, I pulled out the folder that had the receipt for my laptop
to see whether I had an empty memory slot or 2 128 MiB DIMMs.</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">And the receipt said I had ordered 512 MiB of memory.  But
<code>free</code> says I have 256 MiB, and the BIOS agrees.  And I don't
really ever remember this machine having 512 MiB.  So I opened up the
laptop, and, lo and behold, there were 2 256 MiB DIMMs in there.  A few
experiments showed that one of the two memory slots was bad.  And the
machine is already out of warranty (since I got a short warranty, which
for me is usually a better deal, especially since I'm never sure whether
Dell will honor the warranty after I've installed Linux).</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I really need a better memory of what I ordered.  Or better memory.
Or something.  But maybe I'll at least remember not to order laptops
from Dell again.</p>
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Title: Weblog feed
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-08#e20040830a
Date: Tue Aug 31 05:48:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Reading the <a shape="rect" href="http://www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla-org/tools/feed2html.xsl&amp;rev=1.1.2.2&amp;cvsroot=/cvsroot">XSLT
used</a> for the newsfeed on the <a shape="rect" href="http://website-beta.mozilla.org/">new mozilla.org webpage</a>
inspired me to finish a project I started <a shape="rect" href="http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030909a">quite a while
ago</a>making an RSS feed for this weblog.  After reading the one
example XSLT file, I did the rest using only the <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116">XSLT spec</a> and the
<a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116">XPath spec</a>.
So I now have an <a shape="rect" href="rss1">RSS feed</a> produced by an <a shape="rect" href="make-rss-transform">XSLT transformation sheet</a> (I don't like
the use of the word stylesheet for XSLT).  And it's
apparently even <a shape="rect" href="http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbaron.org%2Flog%2Frss1">valid</a>.</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Writing it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, although I am somewhat
disappointed by the inability of XSLT to re-transform trees (i.e., use
an already transformed tree, in the form of a <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#section-Result-Tree-Fragments">result
tree fragment</a> bound to a variable, as the source tree for an
additional transformation).  I worked around the problem using a named
template and <code><a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#section-Result-Tree-Fragments">xsl:call-template</a></code>.
At least I think it's something XSLT can't doat least I couldn't
see how in the spec.</p>
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Title: Intranet mode?
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-06#e20040621a
Date: Mon Jun 21 21:41:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">If Microsoft is
<a shape="rect" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2004/06/16/157263.aspx">going
to develop IE again</a>, I challenge them to move most of
their non-standard behavior out of quirks mode and into an Intranet
mode.</p>

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Most of the quirky behavior of IE for Windows isn't actually needed
to display Web sites correctly.  It's
needed for Intranet sites that have been designed to work with
only one browser.  Backwards-compatibility for corporate, academic, and
government Intranets is a perfectly good reason to want to
produce software that continues to display such sites, but it's no
reason to inflict such software on the Web.  This would make IE's
handling of most web pages much more standard and lessen one of the main
ways IE's near-monopoly discourages competition.</p>
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Title: The W3C
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-06#e20040609a
Date: Thu Jun 10 00:06:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: More about the workshop
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-06#e20040607a
Date: Mon Jun 07 19:01:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Travel & Meetings
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-06#e20040604a
Date: Fri Jun 04 22:47:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: No exit?
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-05#e20040527a
Date: Thu May 27 22:51:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Fragmentation of document formats on the Web
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-05#e20040513a
Date: Thu May 13 18:30:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Monterey County Coast
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-04#e20040419a
Date: Tue Apr 20 05:54:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Snow in Mandelieu
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-03#e20040301a
Date: Mon Mar 01 17:37:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: States I've visited
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-02#e20040203a
Date: Tue Feb 03 08:13:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: The man to beat bush?
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2004-01#e20040129a
Date: Thu Jan 29 20:01:00 UTC 2004
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Don't run away from tables
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-11#e20031126a
Date: Thu Nov 27 01:17:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: The good news
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-10#e20031007a
Date: Wed Oct 08 06:24:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Mozilla Firebird, part 2
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030914a
Date: Sun Sep 14 19:29:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Election 2004: The Albuquerque debate
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030909d
Date: Wed Sep 10 05:15:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Mozilla Firebird
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030909c
Date: Wed Sep 10 04:39:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: Israel and Palestine
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030909b
Date: Wed Sep 10 04:02:00 UTC 2003
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Title: My blog
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-09#e20030909a
Date: Wed Sep 10 03:41:00 UTC 2003
Creator: David Baron
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Title: I wrote a letter to the New York
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Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-08#l20030831
Date: Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: The CSS3
syntax module draft was publis...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-08#l20030813
Date: Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: More on my new laptop.  I don't
think I...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-08#l20030806
Date: Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: Fun with sendmail!  More later on my
ne...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-07#l20030731
Date: Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: I'm amused that when the President of t...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-07#l20030716
Date: Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: It's rally annoying whn th E ky on my k...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-06#l20030609
Date: Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: My reading lately has consisted of read...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-06#l20030604
Date: Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: So I've been in California for over a m...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-05#l20030523
Date: Fri May 23 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: I lost a day's worth of dbaron.org emai...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-04#l20030426
Date: Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: I'm moving to California on Wednesday a...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-04#l20030414
Date: Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 CEST 2003
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Title: The lack of UI for strict focus-follows...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-03#l20030329
Date: Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: I'm one of those tcsh users who's alway...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-03#l20030314
Date: Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: It's March now, and we're beginning to ...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-03#l20030308
Date: Sat Mar 08 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: For those of you who don't have the fun...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-02#l20030213
Date: Thu Feb 13 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: I've seen a bunch of good movies recent...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-02#l20030210
Date: Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: I've done a few neat hacks with X-Remot...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-02#l20030202
Date: Sun Feb 02 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: In the fun with old hardware category.....
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-01#l20030129
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Title: Just for the record, I was exaggerating...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-01#l20030112
Date: Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: Since everyone else (hyatt,
shaver, jwz...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2003-01#l20030109
Date: Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 CET 2003
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Title: I obeyed his instructions ten minutes ...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-12#l20021221
Date: Sat Dec 21 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: something I
need to remember more often...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-12#l20021215
Date: Sun Dec 15 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: Judging from his December 12
entry, Hix...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-12#l20021214
Date: Sat Dec 14 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: If you thought discrimination was a thi...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-12#l20021211
Date: Wed Dec 11 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: It's too cold outside.  To be exact, it...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-12#l20021203
Date: Tue Dec 03 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: [18:53:10] <Bandit> Hi all
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Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-11#l20021128
Date: Thu Nov 28 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: The concert on
Friday night went well, ...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-11#l20021124
Date: Sun Nov 24 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: It's nice to wake up in the morning and...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-11#l20021121
Date: Thu Nov 21 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: The New York Times is
	reporting
	tha...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-11#l20021115
Date: Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 CET 2002
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Title: So some people think I should have a we...
Link: http://dbaron.org/log/2002-09#l20020914
Date: Sat Sep 14 00:00:00 CEST 2002
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