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    Ok. This is a Blog, blog is just a web page where all the content is in reverse chronological order (kinda redundant: a blog in a wiki, but I'll see if this works). You may comment on posts if you like.
    = Blog/Log =
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    14.8.2003


    Stupid machines stop annoying me and start working properly!
    == 2022 ==
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    * [[User:Jukeboksi/Log/2022|Log 2022]]
    13.8.2003


    I keep on forgetting what I'm supposed to be doing :(
    == 2021 ==
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    * [[User:Jukeboksi/Log/2021|Log 2021]]
    12.8.2003


    Being homeless for a while I have no decent connection to the net so you'll have to excuse me for my inactivity
    == 2020 ==
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    6.8.2003


    Well I went sailing for a few days. Unfortunatelly my phone broke during an upgrade and my laptop's battery is also totally cooked, so I could not write up the ideas that came to me inspired by the lovely refreshing sea air and relaxment. Today there was some quite rough weather and I'm really tired so I'll go to sleep now, but I'll be up and running soon.
    * [[User:Jukeboksi/Log/2020|Log 2020]]


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    == 2019 ==
    25.7.2003
    * [[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2019|Blog 2019]]


    Where is everybody? I have to draw the conclusion that all the [[troll]]s have sneaked off to the beach.
    == 2018 ==


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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2018|Blog 2018]]
    24.7.2003


    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ConsuML is under [[GPL]] now. This has upsides and downsides and sides that have not yet appearred to me
    == 2017 ==


    Downsides:
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2017|Blog 2017]]
    * Makes forking easier
    * Makes development work more susceptible to chaotic phenomenon. I suppose it's perfectly legal to modify the schema outside of the project CVS and still mark it xmlns="http://ns.consumerium.org/consuml/", though this I consider to be extremely bad behaviour and can be counter-measured by checking for xsi:schemaLocation="http://ns.consumerium.org/consuml/ ..."


    Upsides:
    == 2016 ==
    * Makes forking easier
    * Makes development work more dynamic: If some party wants a new feature they can modify the schema to accomondate the new feature and build demo software and that way if their addition makes sense it'll likely be integrated into Consumerium
    * If Consumerium fails to realize it's goals maybe some other project can benefit from our work


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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2016|Blog 2016]]
    21.7.2003


    http://retail.xml.org/ !!!
    == 2015 ==
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    20.7.2003


    It's too hot to work today, but tomorrow (monday) I'll kick my butt to get things moving for a change. Thanks to the folks at finnkino for eradicating the obsolete sound system, it is _much_ better now. Thanks to T for providing the way out, I'll do just that.... tomorrow. Now I'm off to have a couple of beers with friends.
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2015|Blog 2015]]
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    18.7.2003


    I'm in [[w:Helsinki|Helsinki]] for a change and I managed to get IP-masquerading to work on the machine that's sitting here where I lodge, so I have a decent connection (most of the time) now and I get the feeling that my system is healthier then it's been in a long time.... perhaps it's that newest security upgrade. I don't know, but this feels, looks and sounds better then in a loooong time, just like the lovely dolby digital that's replaced the obsolete thx in theatres here in helsinki. I should get myself sorted now that my machine seems to have ceased to fuck my brain up so totally.
    == 2014 ==


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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2014|Blog 2014]]
    15.7.2003


    I've reinstalled my system and all I can do is to hope that it starts cooperating now.
    == 2013 ==
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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/2013|Blog rest of 2013]]
    13.7.2003
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/February 2013|Blog February 2013]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/January 2013|Blog January 2013]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/February 2013|Blog February 2013]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/January 2013|Blog January 2013]]


    My system is so not working as it should, which slows me down since I don't trust this machine anymore it is hard for me to think about computer related things without get brought down by the fact that once again I have a machine that just doesn't act properly. I think I'll slowdown to sleep now.
    == 2012 ==
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    8.7.2003


    I bought some great dutch [[fair trade]], [[organic]] [[coffee]] but forgot to get the [[tinfoil]] i need for my hat...
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/December2012|Blog December 2012]]
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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/October2012|Blog October 2012]]
    7.7.2003
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/August2012|Blog August 2012]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/July2012|Blog July 2012]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/April2012|Blog April 2012]]


    Gotta run some errands today. I talked with a friend of mine about the security problems facing the system if it ever gets built and we came to the conclusion that there is no such thing as security when it comes to computers... but if it turns out that there is this should come close http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/ Single floppy bootable Linux with some nice features like using the numlock key to morse code encrypted messages out in case you think the display hardware is compromised and gpggrid to counter the keystrokeloggers.
    == 2010 ==
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/May2010|Blog May 2010]]


    Oh. It's so quiet. I suspect our usual [[troll]]s are off to the beach. I should study the [[SA8000]] and write an article on it. I should propably put it in [[Wikipedia]], since it's not consumerium specific. There is some info on SA8000 in [[w:Moral purchasing]].


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    == 2006 ==
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/September2006|Blog September 2006]]


    5.7.2003
    == 2005 ==
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/August2005|Blog August 2005]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/July2005|Blog July 2005]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/June2005|Blog June 2005]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/May2005|Blog May 2005]]
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/January2005|Blog January 2005]]


    Feeling tired today. I just finished and sent a job application. I hope I get the job, because it sounded like a nice job and I have zero income at the moment and my money is running out fast and the job is _NOT_ in [[w:Turku|Turku]]. I'm gonna relax by doing some [[wiktionary]] now. no-life? me? ;)
    == 2004 ==
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    3.7.2003


    Back on ADSL, but gotta run some errands for a few days. But I'll post an exciting link I got from a newspaper in Helsinki. http://www.sa8000.org/ According to DNV [[SA8000]] was developed by nonprofit foundation by the name of Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), but this organisation doesn't like seem to exist anymore. strange.
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/October2004|Blog October 2004]]
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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/September2004|Blog September 2004]]
    1.7.2003
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/August2004|Blog August 2004]]
     
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/July2004|Blog July 2004]]
    On the road again, so working is kinda slow due to the slow connection, but something is still slowly happening. I just posted the wikified [[Consumerium ry luonnos]], which is in Finnish. It's a draft for rules of the Consumerium Association of Finland. Don't freak out now. I'm not planning to make this association the [[CGO]], it'll just join the CGO as a national member when the CGO gets formed.
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/June2004|Blog June 2004]]
     
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/May2004|Blog May 2004]]
    People are going on and on about how this is wiki is being governed, when there are more important issues to solve, like [[licenses]] and [[instructional capital]] for "who gets to say what about who on what grounds". Governance by ice cream and shadow governace by biting in the leg is the style that's worked out quite well so far.
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/April2004|Blog April 2004]]
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    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/March2004|Blog March 2004]]
    30.6.2003
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/February2004|Blog February 2004]]
     
    *[[User:Jukeboksi/Blog/January2004|Blog January 2004]]
    Hmmm... Really important questions by 66.163.X.X and a constructive approach which the usual inhabitants of our funny garden have been missing for some while. I have some practical, real world issues to take care of today, but I will most certainly try to address the issues introduced or highlighted by 66.193.X.X today.
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    28.6.2003
     
    My own machine is very likely being so rooted by an unknown party. This does not neccessarily affect [[consumerium]], unless my shell passwd to the host running the wiki has been exposed. Anyway the situation is not good.
     
    I took care that there is a current (28.6.2003) mysqldump in several safe places now. I should arrange for this to be done automatically every once in a while.
     
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    27.6.2003
     
    Still disorientated and not doing anything worth mentioning.... sorry about that. I'll try and get my head together that I can do something useful to advance the project.
     
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    26.6.2003
     
    Hmmm... This is the strangest thing. After feeling sad, lonely and disorientated for the whole day then suddenly my mood improved dramatically. Suddenly I felt warmth and a sense of direction. I wonder what caused this... Well I'm not going to do any work today still and I know that it's genrally a foolish thing to report psychological occourrences to the net, but something tells me I should share this with you. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 19:22 Jun 26, 2003 (EEST)
     
    And I have food, yummy :)
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    25.6.2003
     
    Hum-hum. It seems we have 221 unique [[red links]] with at least two pointers to them. I agree with our �ber-Troll that we shouldn't rush into defining terms too early, but I'll go through the [[unambiguous]] ones and put at least short definitions.
     
    <sub>Hmm.. URL-syntax like http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Features&days=30&limit=500 produces Recent Changes on articles that are linked from [[Features]]. Handy.
     
    want a secret ? go on an article. look at the bottom of the page. Click on ''related changes''. There you have it ;-) Don't repeat. That is a secret.
    :Ok. Let's keep it a secret. I'll do my part by brushing my teeth and going to sleep
    ::sweet dreams. I'll do the same
    </sub>
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    24.6.2003
     
    * Getting the [[Features]] properly named, sorted, their interdependencies, feasibility and usefullness evaluated is one of the top priorities. Last few days I've been mostly harvesting the net for useful links and resources. Here's one: [http://www.onelook.com/ ONELOOK dictionary - if you're looking for a dictionary or a translation, try this one]
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    23.6.2003
     
    Today I'm still finishing maintenance on my machines and I have to do some laundry too so it's a bit slow today.
     
    Here are some links that fit together:
     
    * http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/ - GPL OSGi implementation (2.0 compliant)
    * http://www.osgi.org/ - Open Services Gateway initiative (currently at v3.0)
    * http://www.possio.com/ - wireless access points, with inbuilt OSGi server + [[BT]]+[[Wlan]] and/or Ethernet+USB connectivity. Expensive, versatile.
     
    I'm wondering about the relationship between [[EURONICE]] (over 17000 terms) and [[UNSPSC]] (16384 terms). Both describe [[product]]s and [[product group]]s. Google gives zero hits when searching for both... I'm on it. Oh yes... I found a topic map that was automatically built from UNSPSC it's in [[XTM]]-format. Must get some tools to look at it. You can find it [http://www.techquila.com/topicmaps/tmworld/ here] if you want to take a look.
     
    I'm borderlining on IOD: It seems that [[UN]] has more then one classification scheme for [[product]]s. You can browse [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regct.asp Inventory of Classifications] at [[UNSD]]'s site... look at [[CPC]] (Central Product Classification)... it's way overlapping with [[UNSPSC]]. Way to go UN.
     
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    22.6.2003
     
    I'm in a train to my ADSL now, but I won't get to do any work for a while because I have to do some serious maintenance on my GNU/Linux box. [[w:Midsummer (holiday)|Midsummer]] was nice and relaxing. Not as warm as I had hoped for but still ok weather.
     
    Private System maintenance still in progress... looks like it's going to take all the day. This does not affect consumerium.org in any way
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    19.6.2003
     
    Today I sent an e-mail to gnu@gnu.org to inquire if they have knowledge on previous experiences on licensing [[XML]] DTDs, Schemas and XSLT under [[GPL]], because the sensibility of this is a big questionmark, or is it...
     
    If we have [[GPL]] Schema and someone modifies it without notifying us (which they are allowed to do) and makes a document following the altered grammar and tries to input it into the system. The software checks it's validity against the Schema it has and determines it is not compliant and the document is not processed, because the software doesn't know how to process it.
     
    Ok. That's it 142.177.X.X, you're the trolliest troll I've ever met. It was nice to inform us that we are not fully complying with [[GFDL]] at the moment, but otherwise I'd say that you're just making me even more confused by mixing rantings about [[content]] licensing issues and [[software]] licensing issues.
     
    [[Instructional capital]] regarding the content related issues mentioned in [[what we are supposed to be doing and in what order]] is something I've been trying to work out for over 2 years and I hope I'm nearing a solution and I need to relax now, so I'm off to an undisclosed location to enjoy the midsummer festival and I hope to spend some time not thinking about consumerium and wish that my subconsious solves it for me.
     
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    18.6.2003
     
    Nothing much happened today. I spent most of the day thinking about [[The Consumerium Exchange]], which is once again coming up soon ;)
     
    I'm off to celebrate midsommer festival tomorrow or friday at last, but I'll propably take my iBook with me so I can make some edits too. I'm in a need of a vacation from this stuff, but on the other hand it's just starting all to come together in my mind so I can't leave this alone. Going to sleep now...ZZZZ
     
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    17.6.2003
     
    Special Thanks to [[User:Stephen Gilbert]] informing us about [http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ Greenscan project] and vice-versa.
     
    And the theme of today is:
     
    [[Image:ayb.jpg]]
     
    If you want to know what this is about search the net for "cuecat"
    <sub>(registered trademark of http://www.digitalconvergence.com/ )</sub>
     
    Now I'm off the link harvest the Greenscan project pages.
     
    Harvesting done. Enjoy. I put them in [[User:Juxo/Scratchpad]] because I just don't have the time to write proper articles on these. Maybe the articles should be written into [[Wikipedia]]. Let's give some back to the community, the 'pedia has given us so much resources. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 15:09 Jun 17, 2003 (EEST)
     
    I still keep thinking about the [[licenses]], because if I had hastily started developing the actual [[software]] under [[GPL]] it would have lead to serious trouble (no way of verifying that the clients (or even worse: servers) aren't modified to do something they shouldn't). I still think it's safe to make the [[XML]] ([[ConsuML]] as the working draft name is at the moment) available under [[GPL]]... if someone adds something to the grammar that isn't supported by the processing software for some reason, then they get an error message, or the elements and attributes that are not recognised are ignored in the processing.
     
    Coming up soon [[The Consumerium Exchange]]... But before I take that on I'm  going to have a shower, eat, try to relax and maybe see some friends.
     
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    16.6.2003
     
    Today I'm off to [[Wikipedia]] and Google to see if I can get some relevant [[Research|articles]] started.
     
    I started [[w:List of company registers]] and plan on working on it regularly and I hope you contribute too since finding these using the ordinary search tools is not easy due to the widely varying naming policy of the register/office/agency/organisation handling these and I suppose one could see some national advantage in having these services difficult to find using the internet.
     
    Other significant finding today is [[OHMI]]. The databases they offer advance our effort greatly, if we can just negotiate unlimited access to them (Daily updated mirrors would do just nicely).
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    15.6.2003
     
    Today I'll see if I can scribble down something sensible about developing [[XML]], to aid the [[Sourceforge]] project get on it's way once it's started. Maybe I should surf a little to assess what grammars we should include in our [[interoperability]] goals.
     
    I just read the morning paper and the situation here in [[w:Finland|Finland]] is that all the three major mobile carriers are offering similar [[GPRS]]-deals: 100MB of GPRS data / month for under 20?, so it's likely that, at least here, [[Consumerium]] service [[deployment]] using [[XHTML]] [[UI]] over [[GPRS]] is quickly coming feasible. Finland is on the forefront of mobile technology adaption so the price and service competition is fierce in here, but I believe this case is similar to how sub 50$ fixed ADSL services spread from the US to rest of the developed countries.
     
    gotta run now... switching to [[GPRS]] so the "flooding" will slow now ;)
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    14.6.2003
    Did you know that there are approximatelly 48.179 different [[w:stock|stock]]s listed in [[w:List of stock exchanges|stock exchanges]] of the planet? Now you know. I'm going to get something to eat now.
     
    I'm doing mostly browsing today and some editing in [[w:]], seems we have accumulated some info that is not in the 'pedia so it's time to give back to the community we can thank for great software and vast information sources.
     
    I'll try and avoid this senseless copy-paste-linking frenzy that's infested so many traditional sites ("Hey, look this site uses at least three of the same words as us, let's add a link to our links-page!").
     
    Here's something that might turn into a precious gem from [[w:Economy of Earth]] if people just worked on it.
     
    That's it... totally IOD for today.
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    13.6.2003
     
    I'm in the process of '''looking for a job''' since my last job was only a 6 month contract and now I basically have no source of income and I've noticed that when being totally broke my brain doesn't work well at all. It's a total bummer not to be able to buy some food or a cup of coffee or whatever when going about your business. If you want to hire me you know how you can contact me. Preferably I'm looking for something that allows me to take a peek at [[consumerium]] throughout the day and maybe make a minor edit or two to be honest.
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    12.6.2003
     
    Yes! I'm writing this over [[Bluetooth]]+GPRS-connection. It's not fast and there seems to be some reliability problems, but it's freedom to contribute whenever I have my laptop and phone with me :)
     
    We're celebrating [[L�SP�]] (actually L�SP� of 2002, which didn't get celebrated so we're doing it now) today, so I won't be working much on [[cium]] today and I'm leaving my ADSL for [[w:Helsinki]], but I have my [[3650]] with me so you can expect updates daily.
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    11.6.2003
     
    I started
    *[[Consumerium:Village pump]] - New questions about how we should go about doing things in Consumerium goes here or if it's a question of a permanent sort then put it in [[Consumerium:FAQ]]
     
    *[[Consumerium:Conventions]] is a page started because we seem to be in a state of lot of incoherence and once we reach [[consensus]] about some [[terminology]] or [[procedure]]s it goes [[Consumerium:Conventions|here]] and everything conflicting with it on other pages will be ruthlessly edited/axed.
     
    *[[Polls]] - selfexplanatory
     
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    10.6.2003
     
    I lost my old phone or it got stolen so now I scraped up all the money I could get and bought a Nokia 3650 and got an GPRS-connection that should be operational tomorrow and after that I'm free to roam and work on [[cium]] at the same time. My initial reaction to the phone is good. [[Bluetooth]]+GPRS+[[camera]] allows me to draw a scetch on paper, take a photo and then put it on the net. A little simpler then using GIMP to do the same ;) As I suspected the people behind the codec is [[Hantro]], an [[w:Oulu]], [[w:Finland]] based company. I saw some of their codecs at a fair in 2000 and they were very impressive, even as low as 100kbps streams were just sheer magic. After that I haven't heard or seen any of this company in the public, but they rule when it comes to codecs.
     
    I installed some programs (packages are suffixed [[sis]]) mostly written in [[Cplusplus]] and I have to say I'm going to have to take a crash-course in C++ development since the programs perform really nicely and it seems to be the primary choice of language to implement [[Consumer Agent]]
     
    I know I haven't been as active as possible lately, but this could change for the better now that I can connect whenever I need to (just as soon as they get my connection operational)
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    6.6.2003
     
    Today I contacted Prof. U.B. Lindstr�m and asked if he would like to contribute to the project. He is retired and to my understanding a normative authority in the field of [[organic]] farming, ecology, development and globalisation issues. Let's hope he has some time for us.
     
    Also sent some email to http://adbusters.org to get us included on their links page and also contacted someone who might be able to help us in determining ownerships of US companies.
     
    Going to sleep now...
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    5.6.2003
     
    [[Baracoda Pencil]] is just what we need to get the UI Consumerium deserves. Great stuff by http://www.baracoda.com . Best regards to them!
     
    http://archive.org doesn't have us indexed, but is that a bad or a good thing? I don't know. Stupid silly mistakes are forgotten, excpecially with little SQL, but on the other hand we can't track the development from the Archive later on and it's kind of annoying not to be in the archive.org.
     
    :I just looked up the log and ia_archiver has been to the site on 6 different occasions starting from February so it's even stranger that we're not showing up in http://archive.org and, no, our robots.txt doesn't prohibit it from crawling. Go figure. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 19:42 Jun 5, 2003 (EEST)
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    4.6.2003
     
    I've noticed we don't have anything on [[Bluetooth]]. [[w:Bluetooth]] is not good and has errors. Since adaptation of Bluetooth is so crucial to our project we should have a special page just for tracking Bluetooth news.... things like Apple has integrated both WiFi and Bluetooth in their high-end PowerBook models and Sony's high-end DVs have also integrated Bluetooth.
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    3.6.2003  the URLs are a pain.  Can you get Wikipedia-like URLs working?
     
    http://consumerium.org/wiki/glossary
    for instance should just go to the wiki-editable glossary, and
     
    :They're not a pain, they're just not like on 'pedia. It can be done with mod_rewrite (Apache module) and I'll get on it tomorrow or the day after that
     
    http://consumerium.org/glossary
    should go to an approved or known/older version.  Maybe 48 hours after it appears as the wiki version, it becomes the standard version, unless it changes again.
     
    :This I don't follow. I've been thinking of setting up some static pages like "Executive Summary" and "Press releases", but there's much to wiki before this type of html-pages are a priority.
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    2.6.2003
     
    Something interesting going on at http://www1.ean-ucc.org/gdd/ (GDD == EAN.UCC Global Data Dictionary) I've just glanced at it and I'm not really sure what it really is but it's got a bunch of [[XML]] [[Schema]]s that make up maybe more then half of the markup needed for [[Consumerium]]. Keep an eye on this one, because EAN.UCC, is like big, in the area of identifying things.
     
    Just wrote an article to http://indymedia.org . Propably a bad time due to the G8-summit going on at the moment. Also started [[User:Juxo/Main page draft|crafting a new front page]], with tables and some sort of hierarchy. This is not going to be an easy one, but the current front page is not good.
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    1.6.2003
     
    Today I heard on BBC World service that you can get the best profit margins in which continent? Surprise (or is it?)... Africa(!). 
     
    ===Archived blog entries===


    == 2003 ==
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/December2003|Blog December 2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/November2003|Blog November 2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/October2003|Blog October 2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/September2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/August2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/July2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/June2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/May2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/May2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/April2003]]
    *[[User:Juxo/Blog/Archive/April2003]]

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