<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Editorials @ epesh.blog-city.com</title><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Editorials) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 epesh.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:29:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Editorials @ epesh.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Kurt Vonnegut has passed away</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/kurt_vonnegut_has_passed_away.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/kurt_vonnegut_has_passed_away.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kurt%5Fvonnegut%5Fhas%5Fpassed%5Faway</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From CNN: Kurt Vonnegut is dead at 84. This royally sucks. I always found Vonnegut's writing to be bitter, liberal, funny, and dishonest in an admirable sort of way.]]></description><category>vonnegut</category></item><item><title>Violence on blogs, the Bileblog, and parochialism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/violence_on_blogs_the_bileblog_and_parochialism.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/violence_on_blogs_the_bileblog_and_parochialism.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=violence%5Fon%5Fblogs%5Fthe%5Fbileblog%5Fand%5Fparochialism</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kathy Sierra's situation with threats sent to her blog is intolerable, but sometimes the reaction to it - being applied to sites found unpleasant - is wrong too. Let's ALL grow up some.]]></description></item><item><title>Treasure the time you have.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/treasure_the_time_you_have.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/treasure_the_time_you_have.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=treasure%5Fthe%5Ftime%5Fyou%5Fhave</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I'm watching my father surrender rather quickly to a blastoma: treasure the time you have with the people you love. The memories you have, the impact you have on your people... those last forever and are a huge part of what makes you who you are.]]></description><category>father</category><category>family</category><category>cancer</category><category>memory</category></item><item><title>&quot;Two approaches to journalism?&quot; Bullcrap.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/two_approaches_to_journalism_bullcrap.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/two_approaches_to_journalism_bullcrap.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fapproaches%5Fto%5Fjournalism%5Fbullcrap</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Bray posted "Two Approaches to Journalism" in which he said, among other things:TheServerSide.com ran a story whose title was a lie, without talking to me or anyone, presumably looking for flameage, and they got some.Well, Tim, in all honesty, I]]></description><category>java</category><category>tss</category><category>theserverside</category><category>tim bray</category><category>php</category></item><item><title>Bush needs to go. Now.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/bush_needs_to_go_now.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/bush_needs_to_go_now.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 11:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5Fneeds%5Fto%5Fgo%5Fnow</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm normally one who sees the term limits for Presidents as a good thing - because it means that regardless of how crappy a President is, he'll be out of office soon enough anyway. But I'm wrong. Bush has to go. NOW.]]></description><category>bush</category><category>impeachment</category><category>politics</category></item><item><title>Sun&apos;s future</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/suns_future.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/suns_future.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=suns%5Ffuture</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I like Sun, I like Scott, I like Jonathan... I'm just a liker, not an arguer, I guess. But I see Jonathan's promotion to CEO as good primarily because I think it makes transition to the man who will save Sun easier.]]></description></item><item><title>Stakes rise again. :(</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/stakes_rise_again_.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/stakes_rise_again_.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=stakes%5Frise%5Fagain%5F</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And now we see if invading Iraq was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears.

I'm sort of "for" the Iraq war, with a number of reservations. 

For one thing, I hate war. I recognize that it's not always avoidable, and I think that once you've commi]]></description></item><item><title>Apple and Intel means HUGE WIN for Java?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/apple_and_intel_means_huge_win_for_java.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/apple_and_intel_means_huge_win_for_java.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=apple%5Fand%5Fintel%5Fmeans%5Fhuge%5Fwin%5Ffor%5Fjava</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just realised that Apple moving to Intel should mean a huge push for Java, if programmers can manage to think a little bit.

I mean, really: Apple suggests fat binaries, with PPC and Intel code? Yeah, right. Let's take a 2.5MB deliverable and cra]]></description></item><item><title>JAX-WS kinda reeks, and here&apos;s more of why.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/jaxws_kinda_reeks_and_heres_more_of_why.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/jaxws_kinda_reeks_and_heres_more_of_why.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jaxws%5Fkinda%5Freeks%5Fand%5Fheres%5Fmore%5Fof%5Fwhy</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Loughran and Smith, in an HP whitepaper called &quot;Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack&quot;, discuss a new RPC implementation, called &quot;Alpine.&quot; It's an interesting read, sort of a quickly-done 99 theses nailed to JAX-WS' door.However, I think]]></description></item><item><title>Finding the Weak Point</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/finding_the_weak_point.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/finding_the_weak_point.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=finding%5Fthe%5Fweak%5Fpoint</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, while reading something that was, well, a bit of a storm in a teacup, it struck me what I like least about the blogosphere, about the whole mediasphere, in fact. It's that we take sides.

I do this sort of thing a lot. I'll read somethin]]></description></item><item><title>Sys-Con, Andy Oliver, Me... enough</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/syscon_andy_oliver_me_enough.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/syscon_andy_oliver_me_enough.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=syscon%5Fandy%5Foliver%5Fme%5Fenough</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Andy Oliver has written an article on journalistic ethics, with his standard barb at JDJ because they posted a competitor's ad and ignored his POI article. Enough, Andy.

It's gotten old. There's no point in continuing to hold a grudge for me becau]]></description></item><item><title>Posting news on the web</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/posting_news_on_the_web.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/posting_news_on_the_web.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 12:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=posting%5Fnews%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fweb</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[People write poorly on the web, everyone knows that. In my job, I'm exposed to surprising amounts of it, including bad writing from vendors - commercial and open source - who have every reason in the world for not writing poorly.

Look. If you want]]></description></item><item><title>Notes on writing news items for TSS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/notes_on_writing_news_items_for_tss.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/notes_on_writing_news_items_for_tss.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=notes%5Fon%5Fwriting%5Fnews%5Fitems%5Ffor%5Ftss</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think it's great when people post news to TheServerSide.com, because it means that there's community involvement, and it also means that readers aren't relying on me alone to determine items of interest. So please, feel free to post news to TSS all]]></description></item><item><title>There is no magic bullet.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/there_is_no_magic_bullet_1.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/there_is_no_magic_bullet_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=there%5Fis%5Fno%5Fmagic%5Fbullet%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is no magic bullet. Managers and developers alike have a tendency to look for a simple, one-shot solution to address a series of complicated issues, even while we all acknowledge that there is no philosopher's stone. That fails to stop us, thou]]></description></item></channel></rss>