DeeKnow’s Grotto

Why Are You Still Eating Meat? - Strong growth in meat production and consumption continues despite mounting evidence that meat-based diets are unhealthy, and that just about every aspect of meat production -- from grazing-related loss of cropland and open space, to the inefficiencies of feeding vast quantities of water and grain to cattle in a hungry world, to pollution from "factory farms" -- is an environmental disaster with wide and sometimes catastrophic consequences.

5:13:55 PM  

Bio-Weapons That Eat Ammunition and Fuel - The Pentagon has asked scientists to evaluate proposals to use genetically modified bugs that 'eat' the enemy's fuel and ammunition supplies without harming humans. The development of these 'non-lethal' weapons angers campaigners who claim that they would breach international treaties on biological and chemical weapons.

5:12:19 PM  

Use XML::Sablotron instead of XML::XSLT - for Perl script transformations it seems, as according to a post by Matt Sergeant to the Perl-XML list "XML::XSLT was never a very complete project, and development on it has completely stopped. I suggest you don't even try and use it if you want to be compatible to the XSLT spec"

9:47:56 AM  

Data Modelling : XML vs RDBMS - this is a thread on the CMS-list but looks like its gonna develop into a more generic discussion of trade-offs between modelling and storing web content in either a file-system based XML format, or RDBMS or OODBMS database store. (there have allready been posts earlier in the thread from various CMS vendors on the subject)

9:20:03 AM