Chaos Magnet

199 reasons I'm behind

I understand that there are people who read all of the blogs on their blogroll every day, or at least, every few days. And they even find time to comment on them. I want to know who these people are and how they manage to make a living.

I have, in essence, three blogs that I am supposed to be updating on a regular basis. I'm supposed to do at least three blogs a week for the XML Reference Guide, I've got this one, and I've got The Vanguard Science Fiction Report, which has been fallow so long I'm embarrassed to admit that it's mine. So today, now that the weeks of emergency room visits and surgeries in the family have settled down into the normal level of chaos, I sat down and went through my blogroll for potential posting material.

I thought it might be a little educational to document the "flow" of my surfing, and how it eventually gets turned into actual postings, so here is the list of the "first cut". These are postings that may eventually wind up on one of my three blogs:

1. Incremental XML Parsing and Validation in a Text Editor
2. XML 2003 session report: Combining multiple vocabularies without tears
3. XML 2003 session report: News from the world of DSDL
4. ISO/IEC 19757 - DSDL Document Schema Definition Languages
5. Namespace Routing Language (NRL)
6. Extreme Markup Languages 2004
7. Escaping the Googlearchy
8. Blogging Locally
9. DocBook NG: The “Absinthe” Release
10. DocBook NG: The “Bourbon” Release
11. Going to Extremes!
12. New Year Resolutions 2004.
13. Reuters: Google Planning Email-based AdWords Service
14. John Battelle's Searchblog
15. eBay = The Fed
16. IBM Almaden Research Center WebFountain
17. Rocket Man
18. Fontifier
19. The XML in Apple's Keynote
20. A specious supercomputer argument in the Irish Times
21. Draconian XML processing
22. Sleep Paralysis
23. Spontaneous screen videos
24. Dynamic categories
25. Turning consumers into producers
26. Server-based XPath search
27. Databases get a grip on XML
28. Thinking the Unthinkable about Microsoft
29. Longhorn SDK
30. PhotoGallery
31. Two Laws of Explanation
32. SIMILE : Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments
33. Quint on the FREDDY VS JASON dvd
34. An Assload Of New Trailers Online!! STEPFORD, CB:TM, HIDALGO, SPARTAN, SCOOBY 2, ALGIERS, TOKYO GODFATHERS!!
35. Van Helsing Trailer
36. Batman Already On_SMALLVILLE??
37. The WB's Stillborn FEARLESS!!
38. WONDERFALLS
39. Craigslist RSS Search Script
40. Simplerwork
41. Your final 3 hours
42. Lost Who episode found
43. SCI FI picks up Andromeda, Beastmaster
44. Casting for Hitchhiker's Guide announced
45. A real "space opera" in development from Turing Opera Workshop
46. LeGuin's Earthsea to become Sci-Fi Mini-series
47. Perchance to dream - anything you like with the fantasy machine
48. A Real-Life Debate on Free Expression in a Cyberspace City
49. 2003 in Review: DRM Technology
50. Northwest gave U.S. data on passengers
51. Luke Cage Making Progress at Sony
52. CONFIRMED: Bob Hoskins Part of the Mask Cast
53. Comic Book: The Movie Trailer Online!
54. ELEKTRA MOVIE UPDATE
55. Pre-Order the 2004 Superhero Movie Novelizations!
56. JetBlue Redux: Northwest is guilty of violating passenger privacy
57. New tech claims to detect lying in real time
58. Safety killed the (Hubble) telescope star
59. A version of Windows for every geek worthy of that name
60. MoveOn.org demonstrates the growing power of the 'net in US politics
61. Bush outlines plan for moon rendezvous by 2020
62. The Internet gives a voice to Death Row, but not everyone's happy
63. The Battle of Serenity Game
64. Get your name.name domain
65. US using EU airline data to 'test' CAPPS II snoop system
66. SCO sort of thinks there are Linux IP violations, but isn't quite sure
67. Niue is dead! Long live .nu!
68. Nokia to release Perl for smartphones
69. CinemaNow debuts download-to-own movies
70. Internet 'Geek' Image Shattered by New Study
71. We finally made it! Confluence 1.0b1!
72. Wondering why your WAR is slow? Think of your timezone!
73. SiteMesh Overview
74. Jira
75. The anatomy of a bug
76. Sauron’s Eminent Domain
77. Find Some Free Fonts
78. Format an RSS Feed and Put It On Your Site
79. New Google Features -- Travel and Tracking Numbers
80. Watching Google Like a Hawk
81. YSearch
82. Google Labs
83. PR Newswire's RSS (RDF Site Summary) Feed
84. PR Bop
85. Sun Announces Preview of Java Studio Creator Application Development Tool
86. Integration: From Big Bang to Controlled Explosions
87. Steve Mills On The IBM-Microsoft Web Services Partnership
88. BEA, Microsoft, and Tibco Release WS-Eventing Specification
89. StrikeIron Announces General Availability of the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer
90. Web Services in Action: Aligning IT with Business Objectives
91. WS-I Make Available Drafts of Basic Profile Attachments Work
92. BizDex: ebXML And Web Services To Go The Last Mile
93. Four Ways to Know Your WSDL
94. A Design Center for Web Services
95. Mindreef Announces Availability of SOAPscope 3.0 Web Services Diagnostics System
96. DreamFactory Launches Browser-Based Tool For Developing Rich Web Services Client
97. Web Services Networks
98. If You Like Web Services Standards You Would Love XML 2003
99. Patterns: Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services - IBM Redbook
100. Decentralised social networking
101. Looking For a Gig
102. On Postel, Again
103. Technology Predictor Success Matrix
104. History of XML Error Handling
105. On Writing XML
106. The truth about XML
107. Microsoft Web services plan targets Java
108. Straight talk on Web services
109. Longhorn and the battle for Web services
110. Breaking the logjam on Web services
111. The real deal on .Net
112. Taking XML's measure
113. Longhorn and the battle for Web services
114. Why Microsoft needs IBM this time around
115. Developers gripe about IE standards inaction
116. Raising the XML flag
117. A Web services wish list
118. Novell targets Web services security
119. Free Writing and Music - as in Speech (MLP)
120. What Good is the Second Amendment?
121. CBS May Reject MoveOn.org Superbowl Ad
122. Simulating Psychosis
123. What Good is the Bill of Rights?
124. Mars photo
125. Pros and fans
126. Which Star Trek Captain are you?
127. Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
128. Lot auctions
129. Rental Car Horror Story
130. Isle of Man is the new M4 corridor
131. Death of the desktop on the way in three years
132. 5 years ago... Politicians warned to watch out for the web
133. SAP Launches RFID Solution
134. EFF Files Amicus in DirecTV 11th Circuit Appeal
135. ACLU Defends Rush's Privacy Rights
136. Web cam watchers help woman kicked by horse
137. Security experts look to agriculture for virus clues
138. Farenheit 451 + 1984 = Paranoia
139. Hack for the Homeless: Primative Yet Useful
140. A 'Xen' State of Being
141. Secrecy Suddenly a Campaign Issue
142. CBS Shields Pigskin Fans From Ads
143. Florida Video Law: Parents Decide
144. Diebold Gets Stay in California
145. Doc Claims Human Clone Implant
146. Off To A Good Start
147. Cutting The Cheese
148. Movable Style
149. YAHTZEE!
150. The Perfect 404
151. Elastic Design
152. Creativity
153. Back to CSS Basics 3
154. TouchGraph
155. Off-Site Popups
156. Microsoft: Communicate Or Die
157. Innovation is Useless
158. Top 20 Groups
159. Carnival of the Capitalists by Ensight.org
160. Back to Basics Part 3 — What’s in a hack?
161. HTTP error pages for weblogs!
162. Cute cuddly robots of DOOM
163. Church Sign Generator used for fraud!
164. Tat, meet tit
165. Whidbey Integrated Web Services
166. More on WS-Eventing
167. WS-Security meets Kerberos
168. Dutchtub
169. Disaster photos
170. Better MIDI sounds
171. Scaling the Death Stars
172. Honda Civic as H-Wing
173. A Taste of Our Own Poison
174. New "everyday neuroscience" book from author of Emergence
175. nevermind
176. and the winners are
177. “Go find me a way to do this.”
178. more please
179. Common(s) Sense of Thomas Paine
180. Dems on the Supreme Court
181. 11 Top US Papers Ignoring Cheney's Pending Bribery Investigation
182. Let's Send W to Mars
183. PETA Gives Birth to Baby PETA
184. Barlow on Spalding Gray: "Is he finally swimming to Cambodia?"
185. Conservatives ALWAYS ADMIT THEYRE WRONG -- a hundred years later!
186. more adventures in DEHUMANIZATION
187. Sean Penn, DynCorp, and I TOLD YOU SO
188. Bush environmental "achievements" for 2003: from Sierra Club's list
189. Dr Phil versus Maury Povich - who'd win in a fight? (stuff that just aint right #2)
190. Paranoid fears coming true in Ashcroft era

And some XML tools mentioned on Cafe Con Leche:

191. Arabica
192. Render X Barcodes
193. XQuisitor
194. <oxygen />
195. XMLBuddy™ 2.0
196. Relaxer
197. Render X XEP XSL Rendering Engine
198. Python bindings for XML Security Library
199. Mozilla 1.6 (now supporting "XML, CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness.")

Even I can't believe how long the list is.

As you can see, it's a rather eclectic group, but it also shows the pattern of how I surf. (Note that I didn't even touch Op-Ed News today, because I know I have enough material for this blog, which is the only place it belongs, or the W3C because I've adopted a "monthly" schedule for them on InformIT.)

Over the next week or so, you can see what makes the cut and what doesn't, and what leads to other things.

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