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I’ll never quit blogging

I love April Fool’s Day. It’s the only day of the year when we can all be Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. There’s all sorts of people moving to different companies, but the only one that counts is that Head Lemur is moving to Microsoft. As for me, well, I’m not supposed to mention this yet, but Six […]

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RDF

RDF: The next operating system

Speaking of Danny, he’s pointed to two terrific RDF resources: The first is ActiveRDF allowing access to RDF data from Ruby-on-Rails. This one I can’t wait to try. The RDFRoom — using RDF to create a virtual 3D room. Appropriate after my last post. I wonder how OPML could be used to create a 3D room? It would probably consist of […]

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Technology

VRML: your time is now

Larry Borsato responded to Om Malik’s glowing review of Hive7 — some kind of virtual community run on Ajax. He writes: While the AJAX version may be new, the concept isn’t. Almost 10 years ago, back when VRML was in vogue, there were 3D chat programs. You got yourself an avatar, and you could wander around the place […]

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Technology

Jangles

Another good reason to have a weblog is when you come away from a morning appointment that leaves you with the jangles and you just want to find a place to go with the flow for a bit until you can open up your Eclipse installation and write some Java code and tweak an Oracle […]

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Critters Photography

For the birds

The cloudy weather broke for a few hours yesterday morning, but it was still cold. I took my telephoto to the park to take photos of birds. Not flowers, or derelict buildings, cute children, or dogs in costume — birds. There’s a pileated woodpecker that frequents one of the parks. I’ve heard him and others […]