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20050120 Thursday January 20, 2005
Star Wars: Badonkadonk Entertainment

I guess my Star Wars sensors are offline. Some how I missed this story about a guy who is selling his Star Wars tank on amazon.com (only US$20,000). And to think that it's been used by the Stanford Marching Band all of these years.

The vehicle is not street legal, but does go 40 mph and has a 400 watt stereo. Sweet. Since this is a company blog, I won't tell you what "badonkadonk" means.


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CSS vs XSL(T) Computers

Slashdot's discussion on CSS vs XSL contains links to a pro-CSS article and a pro-XSL article. This particular discussion focuses on generating printed text (books) as opposed to just web pages. As someone who has written large reporting systems using XSLT, I have to agree that CSS is better for display purposes.

As a programmer, I was drawn to the hybrid of programming structure and markup language that XSL (XSLT really) provides. For my purposes, XSLT was fine, but having worked more with CSS lately, I find that it just makes much more sense to use for web pages. XSL on the back end and CSS in the front - that's the way to go. Just the fact that someone had to write XSL-FO (formatted objects) proves that XSL was lacking in certain areas. And who really wants to write a XSL document just to generate XSL-FO? I don't.

The other big reason to stick with CSS for the display formatting is that it's already so widely used for web pages. Why not just add those last few elements to make hard-formatted printing possible? That seems like the path of least resistance to me. When 99% of the work is already done, why start over with XSL?
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