Podcast: Weekly Show?

ACM – Beyond Relational Databases Interesting ACM article pointing out some of the obvious requirements of new applications and the weaknesses of RDBMs to fill those needs. The artcile could easily have gone into greater depth on how this niche is being filled. I personally have experience with a variation of B+ trees that is being used in graphical databases for FPS games. One of the sentences that stuck out was “The database must also avoid making decisions about network protocols.” Interesting observation. The only problem I face with this higher level of database abstration is the increased complexity of installation, tweak and management that each additional feature adds to the system. Thanks Simple Thoughts

WP Theme: Bon Voyage Ornamental theme with a postcard by Alfred Mainzer framed in brown, cream, pink, teal, and purple

Propaganda 1.0

Testing out this Qumana desktop blogging tool. I wonder if the code is XHTML compliant. Technorati Tags : Qumana, desktop, blogging, client [EDIT] Nope. Produces tag soup. Also, the client does not have access to previous posts and the category functionality is completely broken in WordPress. Next.

Propaganda: Podcasting for the masses Looks like a user friendly, multi-track podcast creation application. I wonder if they support posting to common blogging tools?

All (most) of the entries are in for the WordPress Plugin and Mod Competition. There are fifty two entries in total, give or take a couple that are having trouble getting their plugins sent to me. The judges should receive their assignments by late tomorrow and we should soon see some results. Check out all the entries that have flooded in! I had no idea that this many people were interested in participating. In addition to the fifty some entries, there are numerous others that have not been able to complete their entries and will be posting them soon (outside the competition). PS: If you have submitted your plugin and it does not show up on the wiki page, please shoot me an email with your information. Please suggest any corrections as you see appropriate.

Qumana : Another desktop blogging app WSYISYG, tags, drag and drop media support, drafts, publish to multiple blogs, multiple categories. I cannot speak for the code it generates since I have not tried it. However, if it does adhere to standards, this might be a cool application.