BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback machine. The posting I wrote on Friday about RDF has triggered much debate (in posting and at xml-dev), which is a goodness. I think it’s also triggered much misinterpretation and misunderstanding, which is what happens when a debate occurs across threads of mailing lists and weblog comments. There has been summary attempts of the […]
Coming back from dinner tonight, in the grass next to one of the dumpsters was a white mouse. Not a small white mouse, a larger one, almost as big as a small rat. And its fur was luminescent and shiny— softly glowing against the dark wet of the ground. This is something you don’t see […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Imagine my delight when I woke up this morning and found the following comment attached to one of my old postings, Blast them all and let God sort them out.: I don’t expect Arabs to be humiliated. . .I expect them to be dead, deader than dead. God doesn’t need to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Debate is not a game one plays when one is bored or has little else to do. Debate is a way of people trying to understand each other’s point of view. At the least, it is a way of discussing points of view for an audience in order to convince […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.