http://relativelyignorant.net/blog Michael Strasser’s occasional non-absolute thoughts on a range of topics Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:15:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some recent REST-related traffic in the blogosphere (both pro- and anti-) has discussed the ‘challenge’ of there being only a handful of REST verbs. The discussions revolve around how to map those verbs and the resources they act upon to a wide range of application functions. So we have Stefan ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2008/06/rest-is-the-assembly-language-of-the-web/ My MacBook Pro has recently started shutting down unexpectedly. I did some web searches and found that a number of people had been having the same problem. I suspected power supply and battery problems but last night found out the real culprit – the poor thing’s been cooking! Fan monitors ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/12/hot-stuff/ Today I took a call on my N95 and was able to create an appointment in its calendar while still on the call. The process was simple. I just put the phone on loudspeaker and kept talking while making the appointment in the calendar application. That’s exactly the way you want a ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/09/multi-tasking-on-the-phone/ One of the ideas with the N95 is to be able to blog from it, which is what I’m doing now. I’m using the Wordpress web interface via the Opera Mini browser. There is a snag: Opera Mini removes the section of the edit page with the category chooser, so ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/09/from-the-phone/ A week ago I took delivery of a new Nokia N95 smartphone. It is to become my new organiser (replacing a Palm T|X) as well as a 3(.5)G phone that gives me the Net in my pocket. I bought it outright and have it on $20 per month with Virgin Mobile ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/09/got-the-net-in-my-pocket/ This is my ‘me too’ blog post with a photo of tonight’s total lunar eclipse. http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/08/once-in-a-blood-moon/ I have just been to the funeral of a 33-year-old friend who died from cancer. I didn’t know her well but her partner of 10 years works with me. At the funeral I learnt much more about her; it was clear she was a wonderful person with tremendous energy and ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/08/not-fair/ I was interested to read Bill de hÓra’s question about whether servlets and JSP can be used to create a RESTful application without resorting to RPC-style URIs like: http://www.innoq.com/blog/entry.jsp?id=java_web_frameworks Absolutely yes! A beauty for me of the web side of Java EE is that the URI can take any format you like. ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/08/rest-with-jsp/ It’s July and I am enjoying Le Tour de France again, on TV and via cyclingnews.com. It’s disappointing that three Aussies left the Tour in the same stage but I’m hopeful that Cadel Evans will do well and maybe win. I have updated my cyclingnews.com Greasemonkey script to include all the teams ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/07/it%e2%80%99s-tour-time-again/ I hate the expression “my bad” with a vengeance! Where did it come from? A quick web search turned up a suggestion that it was coined by a basketball player about 20 years ago. Recently this meme has become much more common via some unknown but virulent vector. I have heard a ... http://relativelyignorant.net/blog/2007/07/possessive-adjective/