Older blog entries for Ankh (starting at number 143)  I'm back
from Brisbane, but (as expected) fairly tired. Kudos to DSTC for
hosting us. (Us here is the XML Query, XSL and XML Schema
Working Groups of the W3C, maybe a total of under 30 people
working on Schema 1.1, XML Query, XSLT 2.0, and a number of
shared specs between XSL and XQuery such as XPath and the Formal
Semantics document). The meetings went pretty well, although it
was a lot of work.  I've been wondering if I have the energy to
go to Guadec this year. Probably not, unfortunately, although
I'll be at XTech (used tobe called XML Europe) and very possibly
at the WWW conference in Japan. I might also go to Doors of
Perception, a conference on design that's interested me for
overa decade.  A lot of talkback today...  nutella, yes,
zhaoway's link was very interesting. I've also been reading
Anthony Hall's The American Empire and the Fourth World
[referrer link; see also www.goodminds.com for the Native-owned
booksellers where I bought my copy], a bo