I just uploaded the completed first draft of Practical RDF. You can read about it, and download the chapters at the book weblog. I was delayed with the upload trying to get a couple of RDF applications/APIs working this weekend, one last time, but finally had to give them up for a lost cause. At this […]
Month: February 2003
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Free the Dishmatique!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Being the shy, retiring person that I am, I rarely bring up my membership in Blog U. However, when the man who holds the purse strings at Blog U, The Happy Tutor issues a call to action, who am I not to respond? Tutor writes, in alarm, about the possibility of censorship with the […]
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Google and Blogger = What?
Combine metablogging and Google and you have a link bomb; such is the case, this weekend, with Google buying Pyra (and Blogger and Blog*Spot). Putting Blog*Spot on faster, more reliable servers can’t help but be good, and I imagine the Pyra crew is happy about steady paychecks. But darned if I can figure out what Google hopes […]
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Eye into the Universe
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble telescope was conceived as a way to put a telescope into space outside of the vision-impairing atmosphere that surrounds our planet. By doing this, we can see more and learn more about the universe that surrounds us. Hubble was not the first […]
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From a distance
While not as large as many of the other demonstrations today, the St. Louis anti-war rally did bring 2000 people out of their warm homes into the cold, icy rain and snow. More people attended than the church could hold and we spilled out into the street, listening to the speeches on the loud speakers. […]