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Weblogging

Chaos

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When working on a book, normally I can produce the chapters fairly consistently. However, with the RDF book, I’m having a bad case of writer’s block with one of the chapters. I can’t seem to sit down, sit still, and finish it. Tomorrow (well, today), no online time, no blogging, […]

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Weblogging

Google Instant Messaging

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Garth has taken Stav’s Google Instant Message to new heights — luckily the victim has a sense of humor. I received a gentle message from a secret friend: burning bird hi shelley! is this flowbait I think this was the only GIM — I don’t think “free unlinking porn”, “treacle tart”, and “tim tams uk” […]

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Specs

Web Services Working Group

I’m extremely pleased to see the formation of a new working group at the W3C. It will be responsible for generating some meaning of the chaos that is Web Services. I may not be an adherent of the “Standards at all cost” club, but we do need to have standardization in three specific areas: Protocols Syntax Semantics Syntax is […]

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Web

A Common Interface

When people say something I want to respond to, I respond to it. And other people are, hopefully, responding to me if I say something interesting. When I respond to what others write, it is a compliment. It means that what was said definitely got my interest, regardless of whether I agree with what was […]

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Web

W3C Web Services Group

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m extremely pleased to see the formation of a new working group at the W3C. It will be responsible for generating some meaning of the chaos that is Web Services. I may not be an adherant of the “Standards at all cost” club, but we do need to have standardization in three specific […]