So I've been thinking about how to make the internet at large more like LJ. You know, control your own content, while keeping the good bits- friend and FOAF capabilities. Break out of the walled garden and all that.
Anyone can blog on their own site with wordpress or the like, or on a hosted service, but what LJ has is friends lists. It's a good selling point, which would be worth prying out of their control.

This is an attempt at a protocol, with no implementation imposed. My recent experience with web programming has informed it, but any successful protocol will have multiple implementations in multiple languages. Also I'll keep it very simple – no web services or soap, just XML over http.

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Public int IsThisSoBad(int param)
{
   If (param == 0)
     Return 0;

  .... more code ... 
}

Yesterday I finally got an idea as to why some people seem to think that it's a "law" that a function should have only one exit point (one return statement, if you're in Java/C#/etc). It happened in This discussion on The Daily WTF

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