Here is something that I’m looking at using in the V2 version of the
WREK automation scheduler, a simple XML file configuration handler
called XMLConfig. It looks
like it can serialize arbitrary Java objects as XML. I was thinking
about doing XML configuration files the way that the Ant project does theirs with
the neat way properties can either be defined as attributes in a tag
or as an element that is contained within the tag. The XMLConfig might
be better, though, since it is simpler. I’ll have to think through if
I really need the more complex stuff.
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More misc links:
Eileen Gunn, editor of The
web SF magazine Infinite Matrix posted to Dueling Modems about the
following link, courtesy of Googlism. It is a
computer generated poem of sorts about writer Leslie What. What is
cool is how appropriate this is to her personality.
Here is an
interview with author Clive Barker. He was one of the better
interviews I’ve ever conducted, and for a big deal guy was very nice
and not so stuck up.
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I voted this morning. Unlike the primaries, where I cast the second
ballot of the day at 8:30 AM, today I cast the 80th at around the same
time. This was the first time I had used the touch screens (like
almost everyone in Georgia) and I found them easy to use. A lot of
people seemed to be taking a long time, but I don’t think that’s a
function of the touch screens because they all seemed to be spending a
lot of time on the referenda. That’s where what I did, which was
reading them all last night on the secretary of state’s website and
figuring out how I was voting, comes in handy. It sucks to have a full
page referendum that you are seeing for the first time as you are at
the poll. Preparation helps.