In my writing about parents being real, I made mention of the fact that medication for depression isn’t the solution for all people. I thought afterwards that some might think I’m critical of those who take antidepressants. I do think that ours is a society that overmedicates, and that too often doctors prescribe antidepressants with […]
Year: 2004
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Heat alert
We’ve had another heat alert today. Temperatures up to 95-97 degrees, and effective temperature close to 110 degrees. Very hot, and very humid. The only way I can get any walks in is to go early enough in the morning. Trying to walk later in the day, even early evening can leave you feeling faint […]
Starting this next Sunday, I’ll be writing a weekly essay at The American Street–my first time as contributor to a group weblog. Each essay is a longer writing, and may or may not include links. Though the topic will vary from week to week, I hope to bring a unique perspective to each that reflects, among […]
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New for me
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You all probably know about this already, but version 0.8 of RAP or RDF API for PHP was released in June. Among other things, such as an integrated RDF server, RAP provides support for the RDQL (a query language for RDF), now a W3C submission–which you’ve probably also heard about. One advantage of taking […]
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Mining passive social networks
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Marc Canter pointed to an upcoming conference, the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking, and the Semantic Web (also mentioned at RDFWeb and Danny Ayers). I wasn’t sure about a conference focusing primarily on Friend of a Friend, but looking through the Call for Papers topic list, the conference goes beyond the concept […]