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Diversity

Shinto Commandments?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Long day and I’m working on some things that will take me away from the weblog until next week. Not the least of which is wanting to attend the Japanese Festival at the Botanical Gardens this weekend, thanks to the tip from Jack Such in my comments. I didn’t know about […]

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Photography

Shy globe of war

I tried to capture an image of Mars last night, but the fates weren’t with me and the globe seemed elusive. I could see it in the telescope but it was a dull yellow pink in color, not the vibrant rust-orange we’ve come to expect from Mars. We’ve had no rain and St. Louis is […]

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Connecting Internet

Fool you fool you

I never thought I would get to the point of welcoming emails offering to enlarge either my penis or breasts, to set me up with a single in my area, to show me girls with big boobies, or my friends from Nigeria with wonderous opportunities. Email after email, alternating: Thanks! Details My Details Your Details […]

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RDF

Jena Week: final examples

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I converted the rest of the Jena1 examples to Jena2 without any major reworking being necessary. At the end of this post is a zipped file of all of the Java source that you can download, use to start your own explorations. In Example 7, reading in an RDF/XML file […]

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Just Shelley

You know you should buy a lottery ticket when…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You’re at the Department of Motor Vehicles, renewing your license plate tags, when outside a car whose brake wasn’t set correctly starts rolling towards your little golden girl, picking up speed as it rolled downhill only… …only to hit a truck that had just pulled into the parking spot next to you, […]