CNN.com: “The skeletal remains found in a Washington park Wednesday morning have been identified as those of former Washington intern Chandra Levy, Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey said…
“A man walking his dog and looking for turtles in the park found the remains about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Ramsey told reporters earlier. He said the discovery included a skull and that “bits and pieces” of what appeared to be women’s clothing” were found.”
Maybe now there’s some possibility that they’ll find the scumbag that killed her.
Yesterday I was testing upstreaming from Radio to RCS using SOAP, and I made an interesting discovery: It didn’t work.
After a bit of debugging, I discovered the problem. There was a parameter name mismatch. Radio was sending requests with a parameter named “email”, but the server expected a parameter named “usernum” instead.
A little research revealed this note by Dave, from October, 2001: “Many of the routines take a parameter named email. Implementors may use email addresses to identify users. However, to interop with other xmlStorageSystem applications, you must not assume that it is an email address. Since SOAP uses named parameters, changing the name of these parameters to something more neutral like “userid” would break applications.”
What happened it seems, is that at some point during the development of RCS, the email parameter changed its name to usernum, which would make sense internally, but broke upstreaming when using SOAP.
Obviously, we can’t change the parameter name for requests that Radio sends to RCS, because this would break its connection to any other xmlStorageSystem implementation that the now thousands of Radio users may be talking to. The change has to be made on the server-side.
Fortunately, current users who are upstreaming to RCS are using XML-RPC, which doesn’t care about parameter names. This is a good thing, since changing the name of the parameter that the server expects won’t break any existing users.
So today a small change was made to RCS, that fixes SOAP-based upstreaming: The parameter names changed back to “email” again.
Unbelievable baseball game tonight between the Giants and Diamondbacks. First there was the floating strike zone, confusing pitchers and hitters on both teams. Then there was the mis-called foul ball that went over the fence in right field, and ended up being scored as a home run to the D-backs, tying the game at 3-3. Off to the right by at least four feet, and into the Giants bullpen.
Randy Johnson hit two consecutive hitters in the top of the 6th, which is twice as many as he’s hit all season. Also in the same inning, Bonds gets called out on an inside pitch at the same time as Bell attempts to steal second base and is called out on a missed tag.
That’s when things get really interesting. Giants manager Dusty Baker is thrown out of the game after (rightfully) getting in the home plate umpire’s face about the strike called on Bonds and the bad call on Bell’s steal, and in the 7th, Santiago, who was three for three in the game, is thrown out for making a remark about another wrongly called pitch — this time a ball that should have been a strike. The D-backs ended up scoring four runs in the 7th, bringing the score to 8-3.
All this when the Giants trailed the Diamondbacks by a half game (now 1 1/2), for first place in the division. Arizona ended up scoring another run in the 8th, and went on to win 9-4, despite a last minute rally by the Giants in the 9th, during which Bonds was struck out on three consecutive outside pitches.
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