After spending Saterday going to Camden and having to do the usual bashing and bumping to actually leave the tube I thought this was a very good Haiku that I saw on Going Underground’s Blog
Let people out first
Not “charge through the doors first thing”!
Die, you bastards, die.
I took the bus home via Piccadilli and picked up a copy of Content Syndication using RSS instead of doing that again.
While searching for random things on Feedster I came across The Open Guide to London.
It is a wiki about London and by the looks of its Index Page it is getting along nicely. Some of the interesting nodes I found are:
They also provide all their pages in RDF and RSS formats.
There were a big peace rally today in London. Some people say 10 000 people showed I think it may have been more, these things are always on media black-out and the spin doctors are doing their best to downplay it.
As usual the London traffic cams were all “not available for operational reasons” so no-one could even watch it to get a good feel for the size of it.
The theme was maybe more one of hate directed at Blair than anti war protest but there were a good deal of anti Israel sentiment too due to the on-going occupation of Palestine.
I took some photos
UPDATE:
According to Sky the organisers says 100 000 people showed up, the police says 20 000. I guess that puts it around 50 000.
Since I put up this site I have been paying attention to my log files to see how it gets accessed. One of my main motivations for putting up a personal site is not to publish content or personal ideas etc but to study the blogging world, how it communicates and how information flows.
Obviously RSS [1, 2] and other XML technologies are the underlying technology that enables interesting services such as Technorati, Feedster, Blogosphere, Geoblog, Blogshares and many more and a study of this is essential. I have been looking for the RSS book for a while and might have to resort to ordering from Amazon.
There are however a lot more to a website than a XML file. The net is constantly being trawled by unwelcome guests these range from Email address harvesters, services that “monitor” your server, badly behaved search engine crawlers and bad people like the RIAA.
Here I present some strategies for combating these services from simply asking the well behaved ones to go away by using a robots.txt and by forcing the bad ones to go away by using mod_rewrite and other such methods.
A number of countries are announcing laws against spam, today alone there are news articles about Australia and The UK both introducing laws against it.
