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Thursday, October 10, 2002

British Journal of Urology: "There was no statistically significant correlation between shoe size and stretched penile length." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Note: this study is disputed by the International Brotherhood of Circus Clowns. 3:40:48 PM    comment []

I'm not loving CloudMark, the Outlook anti-spam plug-in. It's supposed to be a P2P blacklist, but it appears to have some kind of default rule that marks a lot of legitimate email lists as spam. It just marked Jakob Nielsen's newsletter as spam, which is the furthest thing from the truth, both in terms of content and ease-of-unsubscription. 8:37:38 AM    comment []

Finally back from BZ Media's WebServices DevCon (not to be confused with the Sells Brothers WSDC). I thought that I would be the skeptic, telling people that another protocol or the latest tool wasn't a golden bullet. Instead, I found a striking atmosphere of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt -- people are being told that Web Services are "not ready for prime time" because, say, there is no transaction protocol or security protocol. So instead of being the skeptic, I ended up spending the last part of my course saying "Hey, I've been doing XML over HTTP for 3 years, and every time we've seen 2 things -- the ability to rapidly create new types of innovative client programs that we hadn't initially conceived of and concrete benefits in software development project management." It turned out that's what they needed to hear. 8:15:17 AM    comment []