Monthly Archives: January 2003

buzzword compliance

blogging InDesign

I'm starting to do some things with Adobe's InDesign for a couple of projects I'm working on. One immediately cool feature I've found–it can save documents as W3C compliant CSS. Another–it can import and export XML content like RSS. So, in theory, with some scripting, you could suck in some RSS feeds, process them with InDesign, and output print, PDF and web content from it. Ta daaa: A print 'zine from RSS channels

Theoretically. I still have to dig a little deeper.

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buzzword compliance, General Chaos

Sinking Sun?

The joys of monthly journalism: my column on Sun and Linux finally got posted online today (I wrote it over a month ago). As it posts, LinuxWorld is winding down, and Sun is down again to $3.46 a share.

My boss, the mad genius, still is taking entries from the staff for the Sun-goes-out-of-business and the Sun-gets-bought-by-IBM pools (closest guess to date of transaction wins). I'm not ante-ing up yet, though–I don't think Sun is history yet, no matter how stupid they've been about the software side of their business. And I don't think IBM has enough spare cash left to buy them outright.

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