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Dave Winer: We could establish a profile of RSS 2.0 and implement strict compliance with that profile in the major blogging tools.
I can make sure that the RSS validator checks for compliance.
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Dave Winer: We could establish a profile of RSS 2.0 and implement strict compliance with that profile in the major blogging tools.
I can make sure that the RSS validator checks for compliance.
A profile implies a subset. Almost every feed I've seen uses a superset of Dave's spec via some module or the other. Right now I'm currently viewing your post as rich content via xhtml:body, can see a list of your posts sorted chronologically via dc:date, have a link to your comments feed plus count of how many comments you have been posted displayed in my reader via slash:comments, and I'm currently posting to your blog from the comfort of my RSS aggregator via wfw:comment.
I am completely disinterested in Dave Winer trying to specify or control exactly what conformance or compliance means with this plethora of options. As Don likes to say "May a thousand flowers bloom". Secondly if I actually decided to get behind something like this I'd prefer if it was someone whose spec writing chops were up to snuff (like Tim Bray, read http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/22/RSS-Problems )Message from Dare Obasanjo at
Dare: if Tim Bray, Mark Nottingham or you were to step up to the plate and write a profile, then I would support it.
The question is: who is willing to do it?
Yes, a profile is a subset. I don't see that as necessarily disallowing the use of extensions. I do see it as saying that one should not use such extensions exclusively, i.e., *instead of* "Basic stuff like title, link, description".Posted by Sam Ruby at
I'm not interested in being the target of Dave's flames or innuendo about Microsoft people subsetting his spec. At best I might more formally document the RSS items and modules supported by RSS Bandit instead of just leaving it in the code. However things are still in flux with the code which in combination with the fact that I'll be doing about 2 weeks worth of travelling means it'll be about a month before I can tackle something like that.
Without wanting to start up the old chestnut again, it might be worth pointing out that Movable Type, TypePad and the new upcoming version of Blogger are all standardising on RSS 1.0, and not 2.0.
But anyway, I'm confused - what's the difference between a profile and either spec's existing usage guidelines?Posted by Ben Hammersley at
I support the same stuff regardless of whether it is RSS 1.0 or 2.0. The difference between a profile and usage guidelines is that a profile is a [commonly used] subset of the spec that is semi-guaranteed to be supported across all implementations.
Thus I'd assume stuff like <textinput> and <enclosure> might not make it into the profile.Posted by Dare Obasanjo at
Right, you brought it up, Ben: RSS 1.0 is vastly more in need of a profile than RSS 2.0 is: take a look at your spec, with its morass of "proposed" modules, some of which are in common usage despite being unapproved draft additions to core modules, some of which are never used, some of which are outdated or improperly formulated to actually take advantage of RDF. Now imagine that you are writing an aggregator to support it. How would you know that you should support content:encoded but not content:item?Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
content:encoded seems popular in RSS 2.0 feeds too. content:item not so much.Posted by Sam Ruby at
Ben and everyone else, I'm emailing with Ben, Mena, Anil, and Joi and asking them to not "standardize" on RSS 1.0. My argument goes like this -- when I wrote the code for Trackback for UserLand I didn't "standardize" on some other way of doing it, I did it exactly as SixApart did it. I even implemented both methods, before and after they changed their minds about how it should work. I used the RDF discovery bits, even though, as you know, I'm not a big fan of RDF. In other words I respected that they went first, and didn't want to add gratuitous incompatibilities. Ultimately I think this argument will work with them. There's a logic to commercial development that transcends all the BS on the mail lists. If they want UserLand to support TrackBack, or if they ever want help getting another format or protocol started, they should respect the RSS that UserLand emits and understands, because in this case, UserLand went first (going back to 1999, as you know). I've also emailed with the Blogger folk on this. Eventually the argument will work there too, but I'm focusing on MT first.Posted by Dave Winer at
Dare, this is the first time in memory that someone has accused me of flaming before I flame. ;->
May I help you parse this. I have known MS people going back to the early 80s, and there's always been this denial and disconnect betw the employees and the management. I don't need to come between you. When I write about MS I am writing about the net-effect. I don't care how the company does it. I know that many people at MS are honest, hard-working, high-integrity people. I also know that the company itself has been convicted of antitrust, and after reading the trial transcripts, I believe that the top people would do anything to win, and I don't support that.
If you think that's a flame, please understand that it's not necessarily about you.Posted by Dave Winer at
Interesting thread on RSS profile on Sam Ruby's blog....Excerpt from Scripting News at
re: "I even implemented both methods, before and after they changed their minds about how it should work." Well, they couldn't very well drop support for the old way, could they? That would create a discontinuity.
Refusing to create discontinuities is better for current users, but it creates a barrier to entry for new implementors. In the case of Trackback, that's you.
And now you know how new implementors of RSS feel.Posted by Mark at
I would have preferred that we just had a specification that resolves the issues, but I'd favor of a RSS 2 profile. I proposed one when more of this forking and flaming was going on last fall: http://www.mplode.com/tima/archives/000126.html
The profile I proposed is not perfect, but it maintains a high level of backward compatibility with RSS 0.91 which is still the most widely used format in use.
I have gone on record as not being much of a fan of RSS 1.0, however it makes a lot of sense for TypePad to standardize on RSS 1.0. TrackBack is a major feature of MT (and I assume TypePad) and it uses RDF constructs. It would make sense to remain consistent by utilizing other formats like FOAF and RSS 1.0 that are RDF-based.Posted by Timothy Appnel at
Phil, there may be crunchy bits around the RSS 1.0 modules, but the core RSS 1.0 as an RDF vocabulary is well defined : if the root element is <rdf:RDF> it says the document conforms to the RDF/XML Syntax Specification. In turn, this means that it is expressed in the language described in RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax which has the precise formal semantics defined in RDF Semantics.
Given that this is the case I don't really see how Dare can "support the same stuff regardless of whether it is RSS 1.0 or 2.0.". It's simply not the same stuff.
For a module to be properly compatible with RSS 1.0 it must follow the same model. It isn't possible for MS or anyone else to write an RSS 1.0-compatible extension without leaving their extension open to use by other RDF applications. Lock-in can't happen.
RSS 2.0 modules on the other hand can currently be anything that has a namespace.
One way to prevent lock-in would be to insist on an RSS 2.0 module providing a mapping to the RDF model, keeping the RSS 2.0 syntax.Posted by Danny Ayers at
Mark: actually, the TrackBack spec says that there will be (was going to be?) a discontinuity: MT was going to not accept GET after January 2003. Mine still seems to, though.
Danny: in theory, I agree completely. In practice, virtually nobody uses an RDF parser on RSS 1.0, so it's just XML with a sort of funny syntax, and Dare supports the same stuff because a <description> is a <description>. In theory, you can do all the RDFing you want in RSS 1.0 modules, stuffing a foaf:Person in your dc:creator. In practice, if MS Aggregator will only display plain text content from dc:creator, so that you can either be innovative or have it actually display in fifty million aggregators, you've got lockin.Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
Dave Winer is calling for a profile to RSS 2.0 that blogging tools could strictly comply to in order to achieve interoperability. An RSS profile was something that I proposed last fall while a lot of flaming was going on over the release of RSS 2.0....
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There is a relationship between the defining of profiles and discontinuities.
IMHO, no progress will be made until there is some recognition that some valid feeds that exist today won't fit the profile. Will these feeds remain valid? Certainly. But they won't be conformant to the profile.Posted by Sam Ruby at
Phil, exactly right. And I believe it's better for us to work with each other before each of us ends up trying to work with Microsoft. The chances of it turning out that way are not good. It's never worked before, usually because each developer feels they've already won, or can cut a special deal with the BigCo. Also it wouldn't surprise me this time around if there's some astroturf around. If you don't know what that means, look it up. Watch out for people who try to keep the products from working together.Posted by Dave Winer at
Tommy Williams's post is right-on. What he says about MS not moving in lock-step is absolutely true. I witnessed it myself, in awe, as they fought among themselves over SOAP vs WDDX in the late 90s. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.Posted by Dave Winer at
Phil - your description of the current state of affairs isn't unreasonable. But I think the assumption that the newsreader is the ultimate application of syndication is a false one - you probably agree, but I've not heard this vocalised much among RSS 2.0 developers. Just because that's what most people do today, doesn't mean things have to be done that way, or will predominantly be done that way in the future.
People are building RDF applications that go way beyond this, and people that notice this and use RDF (like FOAF in MT) will have a headstart with their RSS apps, no matter what MS do. Those apps may not be exactly like the aggregators we see today, that's all.Posted by Danny Ayers at
I looked it up : Astroturf is a "grassroots program that involves the instant manufacturing of public support for a point of view in which either uninformed activists are recruited or means of deception are used to recruit them."
Interesting. What makes anyone think that there is a threat from MS, or any need to opt for any single format right at this moment?Posted by Danny Ayers at
I publish RSS 2.0 because I'm a comment slut, and it has a comments element that SharpReader displays as a prominent Comments link. I'm not going to publish RSS 1.0 because it doesn't have an equivalent (sorry, Ben, but I think you're misinterpreting mod_annotate).
Whether there's any actual value in controlling the RSS spec, or whether Dave just sees the Borg walking among us, dragging their trunks, is another question, and one we can't really answer for sure for a while yet.Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
Actually Danny it's incredibly trivial to transform RSS 2.0 into RDF. The reverse--not so trivial.
As a code monkey, I don't really care about Microsoft. I'm not interested with competing with anybody in the high-yield newsreader market. All I know is I want to write newsreaders and other applications that use RSS (notification systems) for mobile devices and I know my life would be a hell of a lot easier if there was core RSS 2.0 profile that was implemented by pretty much everybody. (And if that profile enforced a namespace, hehe).
I'm all for a 2.0 profile. Let's get cracking. How soon can we something concrete?
This isn't a new idea, btw. Look at the only successful competitor to Microsoft--Java--and you'll understand the power of widely implemented, strictly enforced specifications.Posted by Bo at
Bo, to be meaningful we need to at least try to get the Blogger and Movable Type folk to participate.Posted by Dave Winer at
"What makes anyone think that there is a threat from MS, or any need to opt for any single format right at this moment?" Any time a large company takes notice of a "little" thing folks are gonna think there's a threat.Posted by James Snell at
> ...to be meaningful we need to at least try to get the Blogger and Movable Type folk to participate.
Following this thread I have the feeling that the threat is not Microsoft, but the real possibility that Blogger and MT folks may choose to support RSS 1.0 instead of 2.0. I don't see this as a threat though.Posted by Timothy Appnel at
Thinking more about Dare's "I support the same stuff regardless of whether it is RSS 1.0 or 2.0", I wonder if what we need is not a profile of RSS 2.0 or 1.0, so much as a BDG to RSS, that says "you'll want a name for the feed: look for channel/title or rss1:channel/rss1:title", "if you want the richest content for an item, look for xhtml:body, then content:encoded, then description or rss1:description", "item dates will be in pubDate with content that matches this regex or dc:date with content that matches this regex". To me, that's the reality of RSS: it's not this spec or that spec, or dreams of a semantic future, it's just "what elements can I put in my feed and have something actually understand and use them?"Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
Dave: I would also recommend that consumers be included.
Phil: I would recommend that there also be guidelines for producers.
Here's an example of things that should be considered / recorded for posterity, and possibly tested for by a validator.Posted by Sam Ruby at
Dave and Sam,
I don't see how profiling RSS protects anyone from the kind of embrace and extend Dave is worried about. Dave complains that Microsoft could enter the aggregator market and support only a subset of RSS but from what I've seen every popular aggregator only supports a subset of RSS 2.0. So this seems like a red herring especially since I haven't seen any official indication that Microsoft is interested in building RSS aggregators besides journalists putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5 based on work that myself and coworkers do in our free time. Also even if Microsoft or any other large vendor got into the aggregator market given that I am a non-programmer working in my free time and I wrote an app that supports most of RSS 2.0, I don't see why a major vendor with money to pay a professional developer to work full time cannot.
Secondly as I pointed out in my initial comment to the thread, the main value adds I get out of RSS are not the core RSS 2.0 specs but modules added by various third parties like xhtml:body, dc:date, wfw:comment and slash:comment. If I were a vendor building both a backend and a front end aggregator I don't see why I should be begrudged also creating an RSS module. Heck, I'm thinking of proposing the BlogX folks add modules that I can take advantage of in RSS Bandit. Does that make me an evil B0rg conspirator?Message from Dare Obasanjo at
OK, Sam, I'm game.
Flame away...
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Please direct comments specific to Don's proposal here.Posted by Sam Ruby at
When we discuss a core profile for RSS, we need to define the context in which that profile applies. If we're going to talk about a set of namespaces and elements that define an RSS profile, we need to narrow down the scope of discussion--if we...
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If I may be so bold as to speak for the masses of developers out there who have a great deal of respect for all of the lumnaries that have commented here, let me say this: it's disheartening and shameful to watch some of the innuendos and bruised egos in this thread. I'm not afraid to state that, professionally, I admire all of you as pioneers and master craftsmen of our trade. Please try to keep the flames out of this. At stake here is not just the future of RSS, something that we are all passionate about, but also the credibility of what I'd call open-source collaboration. You see, this is the first time in a long time that I've seen experts spontaneously get together and work on defining a rich solution to a problem. No formal standards body working group dominated by politics. The fact that some of you happen to work for the biggest names in the industry is irrelevant. You are contributing because you love RSS. Politics aside, I'd like to simply add that Dare's last post really resonated with me. You see, it's trivial to support any one feature and tedious but not impossible to support a whole swath of them. The problem for those of us who follow YOUR collective lead is that, barring a whole hell of a lot of free time to track down the 1000 different extension modules and their specs, it's nearly impossible to go to one single, solitary place to get the final word on what SHOULD really be implemented in a truly modern RSS tool. To illustrate my point: xhtml:body, dc:date, wfw:comment and slash:comment are all defined in different places. There is no single place to read/understand all these specs -- not to mention RSS and OPML over at UserLand. Profile or not, what I believe the RSS movement really needs to become truly ubiquitous - as ubiquitous as XML itself - is solidarity and a single place to go to get questions answered. When I have an XML question, I go to www.w3c.org. End of story. Thanks to each of you for your many contributions. Please keep it up.Posted by Christian Romney at
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Sam: I agree completely that there should be a Busy Producer's Guide to RSS as well. However, if at least some of the aggregator authors sign off on a BDG, then that makes it easy to write a BPG: "here's the stuff that will actually be used, so it's worth your while to produce it." I'm afraid I've gotten a bit bored with "if you build the data, the apps will come" so I'd rather say "do this, because it will be used" than "do this, because it's elegant and rich and might enable somebody to do something someday, and never mind how ephemeral your RSS feed is."Posted by Phil Ringnalda at
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Bo - transforming RSS 2.0 into 1.0 as syntax is easy, but doesn't make any sense unless the semantics are well-defined (see http://purl.org/stuff/ssr). This is a problem especially for modules. From an internal RDF model to RSS 2.0 syntax is trivial, because RSS 2.0 is less rigidly defined.
James - what is there to suggest that MS has taken any particular notice of RSS then? Might it not be that this call for an RSS 2.0 profile is just an attempt to stop MT and Blogger going the RSS 1.0 path?
Christian hits on a good point : "..."it's trivial to support any one feature and tedious but not impossible to support a whole swath of them." The problem is in RSS 2.0 features (as modules) have to be designed individually and effectively from scratch because there is no framework to support them. If a framework was used then default behaviours could be defined, so that if the app didn't entirely understand a particular piece of markup, it could understand what role the data played still do something meaningful.
An RSS 2.0 core profile could be useful, but only if the terms are defined in RSS 2.0 in a form that can be mapped unambiguously to RSS 1.0, i.e. into the RDF model.Posted by Danny Ayers at
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Don proposes a profile for RSS. Discussion ensues over at Sam's blog, here and here. I just love watching the process evolve in real time - that's the greatest thing about blogs, in my opinion. ...Excerpt from CraigBlog at
On A Six Apart's Blog today: On Scripting News, Dave writes: We could establish a profile of RSS 2.0 and implement strict compliance with that profile in the major blogging tools. This has been followed by a discussion of the issues on Sam's...Excerpt from Craig's War & Peace Blog at
Note: this argument has its fair bit of circular logic built in since I am "just talking" about how we find it hard to move quickly beyond the point of "just talking". Also, it's easy for me to say "oh, people should do this and that." Pontification...Excerpt from d2r at
Too many cooks in the kitchen.
Here is my take on the whole thing. I saw RSS a few years ago and considered using it. However, I noticed a frightening similarity to HTML of early days (not too early, around 1995) when everyone was arguing over what features to support in their websites and browsers (NCSA Mosaic was on its last popular version). I was younger and full of energy then, so I went through the evolution, adding standard and non-standard tags to my site. I even survived the painful farewell to the only functional HTML tag around... <blink>BLINK</blink>. But alas, I continued on, snubbing my nose at HotDog, FrontPage, and Dreamweaver because they introduced "non-standard" mess. Not until Visual InterDev did I find a tool I could use effectively (well, unless you had script code within a <select/> tag).
Wanting to avoid the mess, I watched RSS carefully until I felt it was worth getting into. That was last month with RSS 2.0 + Don Box's <xhtml:body/> recommendation.
I don't care if Don works for Microsoft or Mammaw's Kuntry Kabin, I like the idea. It wasn't until I read his suggestion that I was finally able to write a useful blog management system that I could use. I tried the public bloggers and nothing really worked well or consistently filled my needs. So I wrote my own. I still continue to refer to Dave's http://backend.userland.com/rss "spec" to ensure that I am compatible, but you will never find encoded markup in my title or description fields. That defeats the purpose of an XML format and goes against the lessons we so painfully learned with HTML.
Consider this, while everyone is arguing over what to do with RSS, content continues to be created. In my case, it's created to a generic format that is converted to RSS just before it hits the wire. Why? Because I know that RSS will come and go (at least its current invocation) and I'll be stuck with gobs of content that I cannot share if I write my system directly glued to any current "spec".
I say, "let the 'heathens' embrace and extend RSS, it will lead to a better web". We can't fight it, we don't own it, and we'll have to live with it. I'd rather it (the future of blogging tools [NOT CONTENT!]) be in the hands of a corporation with billions in cash reserves than in the hands of some company consisting of an MBA-turned-programmer-because-I-know-Word-macros development team (that was not meant to target anyone in particular).
Sorry if that's crass, I've been ill and I don't play well with others when I feel bad.
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Work gets cancelled (hence adding to the hours you need to make up for) because of the typhoon signal and you go back home irritated but at least high and dry because there's barely a drizzle. After the signal lowers and you return to work, you wonder what an umbrella is really for because you got drenched anyway.
(It's got the workings of a "Funny thing, life" post in it but it's not going that way. Funny how we use the word funny for something that isn't necessarily so. Good way to euphemize the irritation but not very accurate in meaning. Neither is the word "euphemize," which is not one, apparently, according to the squiggly red line in the WordPress ADD NEW POST text area.)
No, this is my attempt to show that this blog has some semblance of being alive by sheer dint of writing anything. When you login to WordPress and everything looks different…well, you know how it goes. Yes, I have been busy (and this blog has every right to be jealous of my Twitter account) mostly because there has been work done, writing completed, meetings attended, trips made, books read, and people seen. (Hopefully there will be more of that later. And yes, I also feel like my virtual presence has mostly been answered for by Twitter. This is why I cannot be bothered to sign up for Facebook. Boys, boys, one at a time, please.)
An update on current causes for celebration on the writing front:
1. "The Man on the Moon" will be published in the anthology The Dragon and the Stars by DAW Books in 2010.
2. "The Startbox" will be published in RocketKapre's Usok 1 next month.
3. "Wildwater" will be published in The Farthest Shore. Voila the cover art.
4. Haruka and I are planning for the new play / film, The Pink Elephant. I'm not doing the playwrighting this time like what we did in The Foundling; we're just basing it on a short story I had already written. Haruka has big plans if it's turned into a film. She's thinking Cannes. I'm thinking down the more realistic road towards the Hong Kong Film Festival. But if it weren't for Haruka's more daring way of thinking, we'd never have done the first play in the first place. So Cannes it is.
5. I've been invited to join a podcast by Bookbabble.net.
There is 24% remaining in my laptop battery and it is 1:30AM in the morning. Thank goodness I have a late class for Wednesday morning. But not late enough.
Next time we'll have a real post. Somewhat. It feels good to write more than 140 characters.
Posted on September 16, 2009, in Hong Kong, Life in General, Work, Writing. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
Congrats (on the accomplished projects) and good luck with the upcoming ones.
Ooooh, podcast. Looking forward to it!
:x, Cannes!
Congrats on everything! :), glad to see your journal updated. Miss you already especially since we haven't chatted much lately.
…o.O…pardon the emoticon. Didn't know it was going to make that face. heh.
oooooh Cannes,
do ordinary people get the chance to watch the film?
Good luck in making it, i'm sure it'll be fabulous.


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When they said 'black comedy' I thought they meant the play, not finding a seat. In this production of Jean Genet's The Maids, lighting design leaves the audience in almost complete darkness as we enter – the short-sighted among us almost clambered into seats that were already occupied. Meanwhile on stage an intense and stylised pre-set emerges in a red glare, while emo blares out of the Lion and the Unicorn's sound system. Costume drama meets Slimelight.
Genet's 1940s story is a tawdry one; two maids plot to kill their daffy mistress, acting out her death again and again, but never pulling it off. With only three characters, one setting and repetitive dialogue, it would need powerhouse acting to stop the audience getting stuck in a merry-go-round of tedium. Instead, the piece is conducted at the relentless pace and pitch of a busy day at Albert Square and leaves the audience reeling.
Pandemonium Performance, in a nod to Genet's original intention that men should be cast in all three roles, has the role of the Madame played in drag by Chris Stevenson who, with his imperious tones, is a wig and an iron will away from being a French Lady Bracknell. As well as putting another middle-aged actress out of a part, this decision undermines the text by setting up a divide between the slim and beautiful maids and chunky, ungainly Madame, reducing her to a figure of fun, where for the play to be truly compelling she needs to be both repellent and charismatic – someone they love to imitate, craving the reflected glamour of her dresses and furs.
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The somewhat clichéd set design by Linda Bloomfield relies on curtains and suspended picture frames that, alas, never unite to form the window explicitly demanded by the play, leading to the apparently unintentional visual gag of an actress miming drawing a curtain, while inches away an actual curtain is untouched. Paul Linghorn's direction similarly seems to prioritise style over substance, and aesthetics over content, never quite putting over the meaning of the text. At two hours, this is over-long for an atmosphere piece; the company have dusted off an interesting text, but sadly they seem to have swept its fiddliest bits under the carpet.
The Maids played at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre. For more information on the show see the Lion and Unicorn Theatre website.


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By Ifeanyi Chijioke.
Biafra is a righteous spirit and I don't know what a canal man is saying about Biafra, a small boy that cannot define tomorrow, what business has he with Biafra? Over 1.5 million children and 3.5 million adults died in 1967, all on the altar of Biafra and a canal man motivated by monthly salary today rant. After the war, thousands are still dying and Churchill Okonkwo thought Biafra is a matter he can buy. Until Biafra strikes him, he would continue to rant but we seriously need a man like him as a source of motivation. We need somebody we can always prove to that we are the children of Chukwuokikeabiama.
I refuse to be angry that I am wasting my time on a monkey dancing for banana, not only that the monkey is dancing to make sure he has his banana, but a naked monkey without shame. I have always maintained reasonable argument in my column; I won't come down on any man without a reason or pushing him without showing him where he would fall. This very young man impregnated by Hausa/Fulani after the war should be helped to get knowledge.
I hardly engage in this kind of piece but frustration on the side of the monkey is making him cross the line and I deem it necessary that I also cross the line. I am actually wasting my time here because I know only few people would glance his piece; I do read him to enable me get back to him. My colleague Chima Onyekachi once said to me, "I don't read those paid writers anymore". This may be my last unless a friend shares with me.
I have always said that these writers should engage in debates, I am always open for it, let us sit down and debate, if your reason win, I respect you and if mine win, you admit superior reason. One cannot rightly claim monopoly of knowledge on the keypad of his PC; one should come out and get beaten or beat another to show superiority. One whose piece has never changed or cannot change the mentality of one out of million the other piece instigated should drop his pen and look for God-assigned career. Here, pride is nothing hence money is paid for a job done rightly or wrongly. Haahahahahah.. Let me laugh in my local dialect, Churchill the dancing monkey is quite entertaining.
I have a reason for terming him a dancing monkey, I stated above that I will push you and show you where you will fall. This guy just woke up and picked his pen, still dizzy and by the time he published his articles, he realized that he unconsciously wrote his topic. You can blame him or call him names, but to me, he is just doing his business, a lame man paid to stop the moving train of Biafra, hahahahaha, the guy is pushing back a moving train. Crush!
If he is not a dancing monkey, he would have measured what religion is, Biafra is now a religion to millions of her agitators. We don't only love Biafra, we are fanatical about Biafra and that is what makes the guy a dancing monkey. By writing a wayward piece, he thinks it can penetrate, why this lowly brain won't know that he is adding fuel to the fire Biafrexit. It is not a bad thing to appreciate him for the piece against Biafrexit, I know Biafrans, and we will only work fiercer to make sure Biafrexit succeeds. That is the definition of religion, we are fanatical and any effort to stop us worsens things and that is what makes the guy a dancing naked monkey. He motivates us on the contrary and risks mob action if seen anywhere as I risk arrest and death if seen by the zoo.
This dancing monkey again in his piece mentioned PH as part of Nigeria, this is another evidence that the piece was unconsciously written. The dizzy writer said that Delta and PH will subject Biafra to taxation as part of Nigeria. Is this dancing monkey not aware that PH agitates for Biafra more than any part of Biafra? Is the dizzy writer not aware that Asari claimed that Ijaw is the head of Biafra while Igbo speaking part follows? Is this unconscious writer not aware that Delta is the stronghold of Biafra agitation? What exactly is he saying about importation? Why is this dancing monkey so dull and unstable in his argument? Anyway, he was dizzy while writing the piece, maybe drunk or being tickled by a Hausa/Fulani prostitute.
I want this small boy to get knowledge; I want him to study as I lecture him what ideology is all about. Ideology is a thing that cannot be defeated until it is implemented and once it's time has come; nothing on earth can stop it, not even heap of dizzy write ups. The more you stupidly try to fight an ideology is the stronger you make it. Ideology is better allowed to die a natural death than fought with all the arsenals of the world. The only thing that can kill this ideology is when Biafra loses in a referendum and if such loss is not managed positively, it might resurrect the ideology afterwards.
The dancing monkey blamed IPOB leadership for the activities of Biafrans, when a wise guy like me, with a home, car and better earning can choose death, this dizzy writer rightly blames IPOB leaders for instigating Biafrans. this baboon don't know how much it pleases us to die for the kingdom of God, death for Biafra is the greatest thing that can happen to us, but will the dancing monkey know?
I read him list how we shall suffer if we exit Nigeria, why is he taking panadol for our headache? What is wrong with this dancing monkey? If Biafrans will perish after independence, allow them perish to your credit, your name will go down in history as who saw tomorrow. I can't really comprehend the reason the dancing monkey would prefer to stress himself over Biafrexit if truly is a nonsense!
I will not end this piece without hammering on something I now see as weakness, this dancing monkey with his Hitler now see peaceful agitation as weakness. Churchill you are reminding us how you would proudly and gladly murder us if we peacefully protest. You remind us how our lawful and peaceful campaign will end with our death and nothing will happen. Laughs , let me laugh once more, remember this day you laugh and promise us death for peacefully and lawfully agitating for the release of our leader and referendum.
Despite we are dying, it is yet no retreat and no surrender, let us die peacefully and under the confines of law because we shall soon die beyond the law and forcefully.
We are saying let this be done peacefully and you are taking advantage of it, this tsunami will come and nobody will be left out. I am ready to die for Biafra and be ready to die for Nigeria; you will not travel because Biafrans will eat you raw abroad. We shall both stay back here and enjoy the sweetness of war/violence. Biafra shall come either peacefully or forcefully and that is what I can assure you for now.
Keep dancing naked and laughing that we shall be killed if we step out, we shall defend ourselves someday and offense is best form of defense. Remind me this day we die when we shall die no more, I see peaceful agitation is not welcomed by you and your master.
Authored By Ifeanyi Chijioke. Great Biafra Journalists.
Published by Okpalaeze.


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Attention basketball world: Forget the hype. Kentucky will have a huge say in who wins the national championship this season.
Maryland, the early-season subject of reams of newsprint and videotape, came into Rupp Arena last night looking to validate its sizzle as Grade A steak.
Like a bull seeing red, Kentucky perceived insult in its unusual - if not unprecedented - status as an underdog in Rupp Arena. The Cats responded by outshooting, outdefending, outhustling and outplaying the Terps most of the night.
Led by its three senior captains, UK won 103-91.
"We feel it's not often we should be an underdog," UK forward Scott Padgett said. "It was like not getting respect. We felt we had a lot to prove."
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No. 5 Kentucky improved to 9-1. No. 2 Maryland, which expected to become No. 1 with a victory here, fell to 10-1.
Stat of the night: Kentucky's three seniors outscored Maryland's three seniors 73-31.
Heshimu Evans led UK in scoring with a career-high 31 points. That surpassed his previous high at UK (twice scoring 22, most recently Tuesday against Indiana). That surpassed his high at Manhattan (28 against Canisius). And it surpassed any point total he could remember from high school or junior high.
"I'm a late bloomer," Evans quipped.
Padgett's 25 points also represented a career high. His 13 rebounds were one shy of a career mark .
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It would be difficult to imagine Kentucky playing better. The Cats:
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* Continued to play Silas Marner-stingy defense. Maryland, which came into the game shooting 52.2 percent, made only 33 of 78 shots (42.3 percent).
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Mysterious Painted Mark
I walked down the block, looking at the other entrances. There are similar small metal covers on the pavement outside other doors. None of them have been painted blue. Or painted at all.
It all seems very suspicious to me. And a little worrying. What can it mean? At present, I'm leaning towards it being a signal to aliens. At this moment, they might be looking at my front door through giant telescopes, and thinking 'that's the place.'
Less likely, but not impossible, assassins have marked my flat for a sudden deadly strike.
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- Scotty Riopel2:11 pm
Martin, it very well could be that underground cabal of licentious Easter egg painters marking your abode for a guerilla infiltration and, consequently, deployment of vast amounts of WMD's (Weally Messy Deviled Eggs, the 'E' is invisible, hence the 'guerilla').ReplyDelete
Stay alert.
Remain vigilant.
Purchase mass quantities of crackers.
Actually this looks more like an escape route. For invaders the sign would underneath the plaque.ReplyDelete
No not aliens but thieves or murderers in flight instead. Feeling better?
perhaps it has to do with the new Smurf movie. perhaps that is the first round, painted only near authors. Why now have he who did Tank Girl do the Smurfs. seems rational to me.ReplyDelete
OMG it's the Milk Marketing Board! You might want to purchase a carton of milk just for show. ;)ReplyDelete
The Milk Marketing board have been after me for a long time... damn them...ReplyDelete
Spacedlaw, I'm not convinced it's an escape route, it's too small and sinister.
I wouldn't mind if it were Smurfs. Unless the blue stain is blood from a slaughtered Smurf, of course.
Scotty, I will look out for eggs. Who knows what I might be up against here?
- Flat hat11:54 pm
Thinks : maybe you should try an' scrub it off with some white spirit an' a nailbrush then purchase a pot of paint in the same blue and paint one of your neighbours' stopcock covers. All you'd have to do then is watch and wait and see what happens to the unsuspecting neighbour.ReplyDelete
Yay! There are more books written by you that I can hunt for! This will partially make up for the lack of further books in the Thraxas series!ReplyDelete
Flathat, I like your cunning suggestion.ReplyDelete
- Trudy & the lovehearts8:16 pm
Martin, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is your talent has been recognised and your home has been nominated for the covetous English Heritage Blue Plaque. The bad news is due to the recession they can't afford blue plaques. Or ladders. So have resorted to blue spray paint.ReplyDelete
Congratulations and hope you enjoy all the lovely tourists who will be flocking to take a picture of your home. At least I hope they'll be tourists and not pack of dwarves in search of your dragon slaying assistance...
- Anonymous11:46 am
Maybe the cover is sad and want the world to know...that it's blue *ba da bum tchhhh*ReplyDelete
I just saw a preview for the smurf movie, and it reminded me of "Good Fairies of New York" more than it should have. http://globalgrind.com/channel/gossip/content/1642656/the-smurfs-movie-trailer-video/?pc=1&pi=1 Apparently, the plot is that they find a portal to Central Park and are soon followed by Gargamel.ReplyDelete
Ignore my comment about the having you write the book for it, I think you already did, just not PG


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Join our Foundation's efforts through volunteering and/or donations in our annual community outreach efforts: Annual Easter Egg Hunt, Back to School Book Bags & Supplies for Canton City Schools, Community Halloween Celebration, Thanksgiving Baskets, and The Silena Semedo Foundation Cares for Christmas.
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