A story from the Boston Globe's awesome Big Picture blog, posted here via Digg, on which I've newly registered.

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Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Raving Rabbids 2, c/o Jen and John

I'm trying to access an XML-RPC service from C# that I'm building. I've had absolutely no response from my message on the XML-RPC.net YahooGroup, so I started looking at the only other .Net XML-RPC class library out there: XmlRpcCS, which is only confusing me further.

The cause of my problems appears to be that XML-RPC.Net seems to require all its proxy objects to be structs. I, however, would like to use class objects, so I can add other functionality into the classes (constructors, the ability to have properties that are masked from the XML-RPC output and so on).

Now if this were XML serialisation, I would use the attributes that control XML serialisation, such as [XmlIgnore]. Without rewriting half of the class library, though (which would seem to defeat the purpose of using it!), I can't do something like that.

Does anyone here have any experience of using an XML-RPC library for .Net?

(Cross-posted to csharp and ms_dot_net.)

Tags: work, xml-rpc
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Hwyl cyfoes: frustrated
Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust — Sigur Rós

Possibly the coolest article I've read in a while:



A real post soon, with lots of news, just waiting to sign on the dotted line first…

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Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: BBC News 24

Album cover meme
Originally uploaded by OwenBlacker

The meme is all trishpiglet's fault. And it's nice and easy, so I expect lots of my friends to do it:

Tags: art, flickr, meme, photo
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Hwyl cyfoes: full

Books

Books I've read in 2007 (by author):

Miwsic

Music I've listened to in 2007:

Tags: 2007, books, miwsic, music, retrospective
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Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Burnley vs Arsenal, FA Cup Third Round

One of the advantages of a Writers' Strike is that you get some *very* funny content about it being, erm, written.

Found via Wil Wheaton.

www.unitedhollywood.com

Tags: entertainment, media, politics, strike, writersstrike2007
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Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Razorlight — Somewhere Else

For reasons too dull to explain, I’m trying to use regular expressions to postprocess an HTML-stream. I want to find all anchor (<a/>) tags that link within our site, in this case using the domain name.

My regular expression looks right to me, but .Net is convinced I don’t have enough close-parentheses. I’ve added line breaks for clarity:

   (?<=<a[^>]* href=['"]?)
   (?<before>https?://[a-z0-9.-]*uswitch\.[a-z]+/[-\w_,.%/~]+)
   (?<querystring>\??[-\w&=~]*)
   (?<fragment>#?[-\w&=~]*)
   (?=['"]?[^>]*>)

I’ve tested both the above code with the line breaks removed and the original code (which is compiled with RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace and has embedded comments for ease of maintenance. Each time, I get a System.ArgumentException: parsing "..." - Not enough )'s.

Despite that I’m quite certain they’re perfectly matched.

Anyone?

Cross-posted to ms_dot_net and regexp.

Tags: .net, bug, pissed off, regex, work
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Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Elton John — Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

Flickr = censorship
Originally uploaded by OwenBlacker

Flickr is now engaging in outright censorship.

The ridiculous over-prudishness of their safe-search settings, which mean that entire photostreams disappear from public view because of non-adult nudity, was bad enough.

Now German users (amongst others) can't turn off safe search at all, even if they're firmly over 18 and want to see content that the Daily Mail might not approve of.

Worse, Flickr is deleting dissenting comments in its discussion fora.

I don't feel I can continue to support a site that's more bothered by appeasing religious nuts in the US than freedom across the globe. I doubt I'll renew my Pro status and I've yet to decide whether or not I'll be staying on Flickr for much longer.

Flickr, if you really loved us, you'd set us free.

Tags: censorship, flickr, pissed off, stupid
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Hwyl cyfoes: angry

Tags: activism, politics, tech
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Hwyl cyfoes: working
Dw i gwrando neu gwylio: Sumerland (What Dreams may Come) — Fields of the Nephilim