Dr. Macro is blogging

This will be totally obscure to probably all but one of my eleven readers, but W. Eliot Kimber a/k/a "Dr. Macro" now has a blog: Dr. Macro's XML Rants (All tools suck Some tools suck less than others). I knew Dr. Macro at IBM and very meekly participated in the development of the IBMIdDoc SGML DTD waaaayyyyy back in the day which he shepherded along. I don't know that anyone actually used IBMIdDoc, I shifted to working on www.ibm.com before it was finished and kept hearing how it was blowing up various SGML parsers left and right. It was technically correct, just very complex.

I think the nickname Dr. Macro came about for his penchant for writing XEDIT macros, though they could have been BookMaster macros.

Update: Seem to be dropping c's today.

The Amen Break

Not sure where I found this originally, but I finally listened/watched a fascinating clip I downloaded about the Amen Break. Basically, the "Amen Break" is a 6 second drum riff which has been sampled, resampled, and repurposed by a variety of musicians to the extent that it shows up in Hip-Hop, Jungle, Techno tracks as well as commercial audio tracks for Jeep and "the purple pill".

The clip is here, from the artist's description page: Nate Harrison: Can I Get An Amen?