BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Don’t come towards me. I’m not okay. When did okay stop being a word? Every spellcheck in every application I use now tells me okay is not a word. OK is a word. But OK is an acronym for okay. Isn’t it? Or was I brought up wrong? When did towards stop being a word? The […]
Just right for a Friday: First, Ian points to Smart Design’s Build a Better Mouse Trap. The entries are both hilarious and rather astonishing in their creativity. Tipped, both by post at Both2and: beyond binary and an email from Dave Rogers, the comment thread attached to this one-word post could be considered a cultural anthropologist’s guide to weblogging.
It’s been in the 80’s almost 90 this week. It seems like every day we’re breaking temperature records. Last night I had to open all of my windows, which means that I woken at the crack of dawn by all the birds. I didn’t mind over much. Now, I’m sitting at my desk in front […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A week or so ago I made a comment about not caring for the new current crop of agile programming paradigms including one of the more controversial, eXtreme programming. Stavros asked what my concerns were about these approaches. As a response, I pointed to the web site for the Agile Programming Manifesto. If a picture […]
Both Leigh Dobbs and Danny Ayers published notes that the Jena User Conference schedule has been posted. (Danny also made mention of dreaming about Jena and white-velvet pouffes, but don’t let that scare you away from RDF.) This has all the makings of being a pretty damn good conference. The sessions are focused either on specific applications or about the practicalities […]