BurningbirdFriday I was able to get out for a few hours, for probably my last chance to take Spring photos. At the Gardens, the flowers were in their last glorious song before petals falling and giving away to the hotter, lusher tones and heat of the summer plants. We talk about four seasons, but […]
Tim Bishop at Geodog spotted the new post at Mark Pilgrim’s weblog. It’s all about bathin’ the baby. I personally liked the Beta patch in the corner–very 2.0. Whether Mark is continuing the weblog is hard to say. According to Mark in discussion at Sam Ruby’s weblog: Funny story, vaguely related: I was at FOO Camp last fall, and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has an interesting take on the use of AJAX: rather than have your server do the data processing, use AJAX to grab the data and then have the clients do the work: A server’s compute resources are usually at a premium, because it’s, you know, serving lots of different […]
From Jamie Pitts an article in the Guardian Spread the Word, and Join Up. In it, Tim Berners-Lee is quoted from a recent talk about new directions in RDF and the Semantic Web. I can agree with him when he says, The nice thing about RDF data is you can merge it. More than a ‘nice’ thing–to me, it’s […]
I’m sitting here with what I call a ‘dirty margarita’. I learned this one from a restaurant a while back. Instead of salt around the rim, which the bartender considered equivalent to drinking Boones Farm apple wine–with a straw– you get that necessary salty tasty by pouring the margarita straight up with green olives–just like […]