Last week I posted an article about the possible future of XML at W3C that has had some comment also on the xml-dev mailing list.

cdfrey, you might like to investigate XSLT or even XML Query as alternatives that, after an initial culture shock, can sometimes be a lot cleaner.

I finally broke down and added Goodle Adsense Ads to my pictures scanned from old books and my eighteenth-century dictionry of thieving slang. The revenues are adding up to about US$2/day, which isn't a lot but will probably pay for Web hosting if we need to move the server.

In order to make it less likely we need to move server I have made a bandwidth theft image that's used if people use an img element to embed one of my images in their Web page. I've had several mail messages as a result, requesting permission. In most cases people are happy using a lower resolution image -- google's image search tends to find the largest resolution available, and many people assume they can use images they find on the Web however tehy please.

Actually it's quite common for people to use width and height attributes to scale down a one megabyte image to generate a thumbnail, not understanding the performance implications. Sigh.

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gicmo, x means you cam make the directory your current working directory (also needed for descending into subdirectories). r means you can read the dierctory file itself, which lets you get a directory listing. Making a Unix directory mode -rwx--x--x (0711) means that other users can fetch files from the directory only if they know the filenames, and is sometimes used for incoming ftp servers or for use with a Web server such as Apache to prevent a directory listing.