Antonio Cavedoni was a cool website that converts Atom 0.3 feeds to RDF feeds (RSS 1.0). Apparently, I'm the last to hear about how the corrupt sheriff's department in Winnemucca tramples on the Constitution. Not cool.

Found Daniel Vine's cool "iCapture" website that shows you what your website looks like in a Panther/Safari browser combo. Three new virii (viruses)/worms started to appear yesterday: W32.Netsky.B@mm, W32.Beagle.B@mm, and W32.Welchia.B.Worm. Fun, fun, fun!   =(

Bang & Olufson (the high-end audio company from Denmark) has developed a speaker that adjusts it's sound around your furniture. Very nifty.

I've been trying to figure out the difference between RSS and RDF, and I think I may have finally found an answer. RDF is a subset of RSS, with RSS versions 0.90 and 1.0 being RDF. RSS versions 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and 2.0 are *not* RDF. OPML (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0) and OCS (version 0.5), on a different note, are feeds about feeds (metafeeds, typically used for sharing your list of favorite feeds), although OCS seems to be based upon RDF (at least since version 0.2 when it was redefined to use elements of the Dublin Core). And Atom (versions 0.2 and 0.3), of course, is a competing feed format altogether (although Atom can be a module within RSS!). Phew!

It appears that our American missionaries in Haiti might need to be evacuated again (like they were when I was there over a decade ago). I guess some things are cyclical, indeed.

The 'grants.gov' initiative logistics *badly* need to be fixed. Their online databases are so full of errors and problems, it's a wonder anyone can get signed up at all. The CCR website's registration module has been *very* poorly implemented - there's a problem with their secure certificate, and lots of database errors. Don't they test these things?

The geodata.gov maps of Reno are riddled with "unnamed street" markings - how is that possible? Very weird.