I am so burned out from the push to finish the draft this last week. It got to the point that I was coding PHP into a Java class, and I kept looking at some Python, trying to figure out why it looked funny (it’s Python, it’s supposed to look funny). And then I had […]
Year: 2003
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 […]
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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 […]