Wow, people might actually read this.

I just saw that I had some writebacks. Cool. I didn't even know. Thanks for people who have commented! Keep it coming - well, if I continue to say anything interesting that is.

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Come to Hypertext 2004!

Gregor mentions a hackathon at ACM HyperText 2004. I'm most likely going to be there. I'm on the program committee for HyperText this year; we just finished reviews. (If you've been wondering what I've been doing the last few days, that's what.) There should be some outstanding papers this year! Register now!

A hackathon sounds like a good idea. Even if I don't know that much about OSCOM. ;-)

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Who would have thought it?

So, through 4 games, the Rangers are now 2-2. The most surprising thing is that the pitching has done rather well. With Soriano at 2B and Young switching to SS, the defense hurts (2 errors by Young at SS in the same inning!). The offense has been good - Texiera and Blalock look pretty good so far. But, man, the starting pitching has been good through four games.

It's a long season though... Sadly, I'm expecting the pitching to come crashing down. But, we're at .500. Can't wait to see them play the Angels in a few weeks. Yay! Baseball's back!

Also, I love MLB Extra Innings. I'm so hooked on being able to watch my team from afar - that I forked over $135 for it. I figure that it'll save me from going to a concert or two over the summer. ;-)

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Paper accepted! Yay!

Our paper got accepted into WICSA. This means that I'll be heading to Norway in mid-June. Any suggestions on what I should do? I'm considering going to at least one other country while I'm there (current thought is England). I'm on a relatively tight budget and spending anything beyond two weeks in Europe just won't work out that well logistically.

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I knew I found my calling as a nitpicker...

Does everyone else get the same answer when they take this quiz?

How grammatically sound are you?

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

"If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it
 should be.  Congratulations and thank you!"

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Implementing Trailers in HTTP

Leo seems to be having problems implementing trailers in his NIO Java implementation. I think he overlooked that trailers have to be concluded with a blank CRLF.

3.6.1 in RFC 2616 says:

Chunked-Body   = *chunk
                 last-chunk
                 trailer
                 CRLF

Note that httpd 2.x does allow persistent connections with chunked:

% telnet cvs.apache.org 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: cvs.apache.org
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Trailer: Extension-Trailer

4
test
0
Extension-Trailer: foo foo
       foo

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:19:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.1.0-dev (Unix)...
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: cvs.apache.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:21:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.1.0-dev (Unix)...
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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No surprises on my political compass.

Following Thom's link about the Political Compass, I took their survey and got:

• Economic Left/Right: 0.88
• Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

So, Economic Right/Social Libertarian. But, still relatively close to the center, which is probably accurate of how I'd describe myself.

In comparison to all of the lefties out here in California, I'm probably viewed as a militant right winger, but they've never lived out in the middle of the Bible Belt where my views tend to be incredibly liberal and progressive (and that's where I was born and raised, not out here in California).

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