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RDF Specs

Critical Mass

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I read about the RDF Data organization, I was reminded that the difficulties inherent with deriving a new vocabulary and associated functionality isn’t found in the bits of XML or the bytes of code: it’s generating enough interest and uses thereof for the vocabulary to reach critical mass; making it […]

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Writing

Talk loudly and truth might hear

One last post for the evening, and this features one of my more favorite passages of Kierkegaard, from On Authority and Revelation: The book on Adler. All [speculative, tendentious] premise-authors, whatever their relative differences may be, have one thing in common: they all have a purpose, they all wish to produce an effect, they all wish that […]

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Political

Focusing

The earlier black & whites were from a roll of film that I found deep in my camera bag. They make a nice break from the color slides from the hot air balloon race. This week has been a tough week, with the increased violence in Iraq, and the devestation that Hurricane Jeanne wrecked on […]

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Photography

Absentminded

Lately, I’ve been horribly absentminded, only seeming to center and focus when I’m working on my photos. Speaking of which, I sent copies of the magazine containing my photo essay to a few friends and my mother and an aunt. When I talked to Mom this weekend, she was in alt (isn’t that a lovely […]

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People

The damn Dane again

I have to go to Indiana and thought I would leave some photos and Kierkegaard. Yes, some more of that Damn Dane, but you’re going to like these. A person cannot possibly seek what he knows, and just as impossible, he cannot seek what he does not know, for what he knows he cannot seek, […]