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Come learn XForms
So, you've been hanging around on the edges of XForms--why don't you take the plunge and learn it from the inside out?

Come see me at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Portland, for a half-day tutorial, on the afternoon of Monday, July 26. There's also a shorter 45-minute session on Thursday the 29th. -m
Search
I've been particularly inspired lately by the problem of Search. Between the new employer, and reports of one-man search companies and reports of completely new technologies, this is getting to be quite an interesting space.

Which happens to mesh with my gradual project the last few months--converting all my stored information into good old UTF-8 plain text. The nexus of all these things is David Mertz's book Text Processing in Python, which references his excellent public domain text indexer code.

It wouldn't take much to convert my whole blog over to this system. Hmm. -m


Everything Must Go!
Here's an interesting project that ties in nicely with my recent reading of Text Processing in Python: markdown, a plain-text-ish format for writing.

I just used David Mertz's format in writing a Hack for _XML Hacks_, and I have to admit it was far easier than skipping over the tags, or even the rather good attempt at tagless-WYSIWYG-XML-editing I got from Morphon.

My initial comments:

Paragraphs should be allowed to be uniformly indented a few spaces. Like code, most text is read far more often than written, and every little bit of extra readablility helps.

The inline link syntax -- This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link. -- doesn't seem natural. It's not the kind of thing you'd see in use anywhere. (The out-of-line links, however, are very slick) The image syntax is even less so -- 

For the image case, I'd take a hint from TPIP and use keywords (which are only recognized at the start of a line) in these cases
IMAGE: [alt text] "Optional title"

-m
Seeing XForms Inside Out
At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, come see my presentation Seeing XForms Inside Out:: Inside an XForms Validator (Thurs July 29). Whether you're just learning about XForms, or been working with it already, you will find some interesting insights by looking at XForms from the perspective of a validation tool.

If you can make it for the full week, I also have a half-day tutorial on Monday (July 26). Check it out! -m
Claim is filed over deadly Scottsdale police shooting

The family of the former Marine shot and killed by a Scottsdale police officer in a January incident has filed a $5 million notice of claim against the city.

Hard drive corruption on OS X?
For the 2nd time in two months, my hard drive has been corrupted beyond what fsck/Disk Utility/DiskWarrior can repair. Even the TechTool software that comes with the AppleCare package reported "Surface Scan Failed" and "Volume Structure Failed". If anyone else has seen this, please send me mail.

Specifically, 1) is this a sign of an impending catastrophic hard drive failure? 2) Are there any utilities that can provide a definitive report that the Apple technicians will take as a "replace that hard drive now" situation? Or am I being overly-paranoid again?

The friendly Apple guys reformatted my hard drive, which made the errors go away (for the time being). So, what's up?

-m
Parts of Scottsdale's Chaparral dog park could close

Portions of Scottsdale's Chaparral dog park could close temporarily this summer to accommodate construction of water and sewer lines.

Light is shed on Paradise Valley murder investigation

It was an anonymous tip about the murder of a Paradise Valley couple that led investigators to the Glendale woman who held one of the keys that unlocked their case: She told them they should find a man known as "Shark" who always carried a .22-caliber handgun.

An XM
Rabbinic sisterhood

Rabbi Ilana Mills, center, with her sisters Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, left, and Rabbi Mari Chernow, right, at a celebration after Mills' ordination on May 13.

X-CP
Here's an interesting new Internet specification. Actually, I haven't looked at it in the slightest, but it has an 'X' in the name, so it must be good. -m
Higley students to benefit from early literacy grant

Higley Unified School District's developmental preschool classes will benefit from a Teaching Early Literacy and Language grant and partnership with Arizona State University to help 4-year-olds with speech impairments.

2 PV principals will get new roles, 1 in Scottsdale

Two Paradise Valley Unified School District principals are moving up to top administrative roles, but one of them is moving to the Scottsdale district.

Small-town values help Paddy O' maintain edge

When Tony Schindler was in high school in Minnesota, he told his father, who owned a small home-furniture store, that he wanted to take over the family business.

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