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Cool: no sooner do I start working on a Netscape/Mozilla sidebar to get a Meerkat news feed than a new project starts up on Mozdev: RSSZilla, an RSS syndication reader for Mozilla that will include a sidebar.

I plan to post an explanation of why I’m not honoring MAPE’s strike, but first I want to watch tonight’s Almanac to see what the State and the unions have to say.

Oh, heck. Here it is in a nutshell: I believe that going on strike was the wrong decision, and I’m not enough of a union guy to go along with it even though I disagree. I believe that when a union makes the decision to strike, it should be for a helluva lot more than just money. Fundamental things like job security and worker safety need to be at stake. True, health care costs and wages in the State’s proposal will be painful, and they ought to be negotiated. But union leadership made the wrong decision when it voted to strike. The cost is far too great.

Okay, more later. After Almanac. I’ll probably be taping it if you miss it and want to watch.

Larry Wall’s Apocalypse 3 is out. I am so psyched for Perl 6.

Eric Meyer’s CSS/Edge, a playground for CSS layout and such.

New CPAN upload: Jabber::RPC, a Perl implementation of Jabber-RPC. See also DJ Adams’s Jabber-RPC page.

MAPE’s called a strike.

“‘This is a respect issue, not a money issue,’ said MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe.”

Bullshit.

Copyright Endurance and Change. From yet another smart little issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing.

An interesting set of ideas about why it’s safe to use IIS. Not entirely persuasive, but some good points. I’d say more if I weren’t so drawn to Star Trek. :-)

I’m still waiting to hear from a colleague who uses IIS. I really do want to know where the advantage is over something like Apache.

Asymmetric Cryptography in Perl.

By all rights, of course, I should be watching the premiere of the new Star Trek series.

Been looking into XUL, Mozilla’s XML-based user interface language. Be sure to see this tutorial.