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Google Gears (Google’s toolkit for off-line web applications) looks really cool (thought it’s a pity it has to be installed as a plug-in and there are a lot of “We have nothing to announce at this time” type responses floating around. A lot of people seem to be asking about things like conflict resolution etc. which is being left as an application concern for now. The few web developers around seem to be underestimating the amount of rework which would be required, but for new web applications it looks like it will be quite easy to produce a radically better off-line experience.

Maplets look cute, but I’ve not really played with maps much, so it doesn’t seem to radical to me. The ‘coming soon’ mention of AdSense for maps is interesting - looks like you’ll be able to make a call with your id and a number of ads to display and have them shown along with whatever other map content your maplet/mashup is adding.

Food’s been pretty good, got a very cool notepad which has a picture of the earth on the cover then zooms in as you tilt it forward.

…And why do they always have conference name tags designed so they turn backwards accidentally so easily. Surely it would be simple to attach it to the lanyard at two corners rather than just at the centre…

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Getting the following error when you try to run html tidy from TextMate?

html tidy failed assertion `option_defs[ optId ].type == TidyInteger’

You’ve probably got the current (as of 19 May 2007) binary version installed by fink. If you install the one built by fink from source, or the one from the html tidy website, then it should start working.

(For what it’s worth, it seems the binary package fails with that error whenever it’s given the ‘-i’ flag to ask it to perform indentation.)

This is another question I saw around the place somewhere, attributed to Google. It goes along the following lines…

You are given two marbles, and told that they will break when dropped from some certain height (and presumably suffer no damage if dropped from below that height). You’re then taken to a 100 story building (presumably higher than the certain height), and asked to find the highest floor your can drop a marble from without breaking it as efficiently as possible.
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