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Semantics

Walking in Simon’s Shoes

The editor for my book, Practical RDF, was Simon St. Laurent, well known and respected in XML circles. Some might think it strange that a person who isn’t necessarily fond of RDF and especially RDF/XML, edit a book devoted to both, but this is the way of the book publishing world. Simon was the best […]

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Healthcare

Image of a different kind

Lovely storm rolling through – more like ones we get in the Spring than the Fall. In addition to the very welcome encouragement in the comments to my previous posting, I’m also getting some good discussion about photos and resolution necessary for publication. Among them, a suggestion for a PhotoShop plug-in that might help me salvage some […]

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Critters

TRO For all horse meat plants set to same date

Update on Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack et al: Responding to a filing yesterday, Judge Armijo agreed to set the expiration date for the TRO for Rains Natural Meats to the same date as the other two plants: October 31, 2013. By that time, Judge Armijo will have a decision in the […]

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Photography

Your photos are beautiful but…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thank you for sending your query to ____________ magazine. Your photographs are beautiful! The magazine has not published photo essays in the past, but that may change in the future. I was thrilled when the managing editor of a magazine, known for the beautiful photography it uses to annotate its […]

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RDF

PostCon

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The RDF vocabulary used throughout the examples for Practical RDF is PostCon, example here, a Post Content information dataset. The plan was that I would finish the book and then finish a Java implementation of PostCon, the application, using PostCon, the vocabulary, before the book hit the street. What I wasn’t counting […]