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Weblogging

RSS, sick finches, and a bouncing ball

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I sent an email to Dave Winer and Rogers Cadenhead yesterday morning with a question: Which came first: the business disagreement or the problems with the RSS Board? If the issue between Dave Winer and Rogers Cadenhead was one of two people disagreeing about business, I wouldn’t have been that […]

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Weblogging

Pulling the chain

For those thinking of quitting, Mr. Cranky Pants has some words of wisdom. I was smart; I quit the weblog three years ago. I had a chance to experience both the love and the loss and had a kickass sendoff. People cried real tears. I know, they said so in my comments. I came back, of course […]

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Technology

New tech

Today’s adventures in tech: other than pushing some data around, as well as pushing around some JavaScript and doing a bit of writing, I also purchased my first bluetooth mouse: a Logitech laptop mouse for my Powerbook. I like the mouse, but it seems to come disconnected rather frequently. My bluetooth keyboard from Apple doesn’t […]

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RDF Semantics

Useful SemWeb posts

This efficient ways to store graphs in MySQL will come in handy. The RDF/A draft for embedding RDF in XHTML has been released. I did a quick look at the spec and it does look good — the microformats people will be happy to see it. I still believe that we don’t need to embed RDF directly into our web pages […]

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Stuff

Lighter moments

Beware the Phil! Protect your textareas! Phil Ringnalda, responding from his semi-regular weblog hiatus to a quip by Anil Dash about being silenced: While you were watching mailing lists, I landed three Firefox patches, including a FF2 blocker, and one that was once a 1.5 blocker in two different bugs, though we gave up on it later. There’s […]