{"id":1145,"date":"2010-02-24T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:25:48","slug":"odd-lots-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughlydrafted.com\/2010\/02\/20\/an-adobe-flash-developer-on-why-the-ipad-cant-use-flash\/\">the best discussion I&#8217;ve yet seen on why Flash may never work well<\/a>&#8211;or perhaps at all&#8211;on touchscreen devices like the iPad.<\/li>\n<li>Most recent laser printers have Ethernet ports, and some older printers (like my Laserjet 2100TN) can accept a JetDirect network adapter. Installing a printer on a network port means you don&#8217;t have to worry about whether the machine it&#8217;s attached to is turned on. If you&#8217;d like to do this but you&#8217;re not a network geek, <a href=\"http:\/\/uis.georgetown.edu\/software\/documentation\/winxp\/winxp.network.printer.html\">here&#8217;s the best XP-based step-by-step on the topic I&#8217;ve ever run across<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/uis.georgetown.edu\/software\/documentation\/win2000\/win2k.network.printer.html\">Same tutorial for Windows 2000<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Baker passed me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualoptimist.com\/?p=3611\">a nice item<\/a> on the issue of broadening publisher book production to allow all formats to be generated from a single master file. Follow and read the link to The New Sleekness as well. Pablo should take it down a notch; XML is not a markup language; it&#8217;s a general mechanism for creating markup languages, and what may happen eventually (perhaps in ten years or so) is a standard book-production markup language derived from XML and built into a new generation of word processors. Still, what nobody in either article mentions is the problem of pages verses reflowable, which is the 9 trillion pound gorilla in the business. If you don&#8217;t solve that problem, <em>absolutely nothing else matters<\/em>. (And it is not as easy to solve as some may claim&#8211;I&#8217;ve been thinking about it for several years now and see no solution whatsoever on the horizon .)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kazhack.org\/?post\/2010\/02\/23\/KompoZer-0.8b2\">Kompozer 0.8b2 has been released<\/a>. I just got it installed in a VM and will be poking at it in coming days. According to Kaz, most of the changes are code cleanups, but any progress on the editor is a fine, fine thing.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve done model rocketry here and there over the (many) years, and I&#8217;ve seen some very odd things lofted on D engines. Back in high school, my friend George built a Harecules Guided Muscle (which was from the Beany &amp; Cecil cartoon show) in the form of a big whittled balsa wood fist on a short, thick body. I&#8217;m amazed it flew as well as it did. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcrocket.com\/crayons.shtml\">here&#8217;s a fire-&#8217;em-together pack of 8 rockets shaped and colored like Crayola crayons<\/a>. The guy took his time (six years) but he did a great job&#8211;and created a spectacular Web page documenting the project.<\/li>\n<li>We rarely go to WalMart, but last time we did, I picked up a bottle of Diet Mountain Lightning. It has <em>nothing<\/em> on Kroger&#8217;s Diet Citrus Drop, easily the best of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generic_citrus_sodas\">all the Diet Mountain Dew clones<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever had the opportunity to try.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the best discussion I&#8217;ve yet seen on why Flash may never work well&#8211;or perhaps at all&#8211;on touchscreen devices like the iPad. Most recent laser printers have Ethernet ports, and some older printers (like my Laserjet 2100TN) can accept a JetDirect network adapter. 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