BurningbirdNot far from Babble Meadow is another Magic place: Deer Mountain. However, unlike the Meadow where People are not allowed, you and I can tread the Mountain — but the Mountain has to invite you, first. You can pout and you can bring money and you can show your card that says you’re an Important […]
I’ve decided to hold on posting any more chapters to the RDF book web site until I have a completed first draft. I found that I couldn’t manage the tech review comments and questions and the writing at the same time. Normally I can multi-task, and this type of thing wouldn’t be a problem. However, […]
This week and last has been a round of worries. Too many nights waking from a sound sleep; too many mornings waking up with that faint anxious feeling you get when you know that worry slept in the bed beside you. When I look at this photo I think to myself, “Avoid the water, the […]
For those who are interested in reviewing the Practical RDF book, I’ve finally gotten around to posting a new chapter, Chapter 4: Reification, The RDF Big Ugly”. I had to rewrite the chapter to incorporate changes in the specification, and writing about reification isn’t trivial. The effort has slowed me down considerably and put me […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer starts a posting today with the title Whining Matilda, in response to the — legitimate — complaints of lack of coverage of the Bali bombing in the American press. He writes: There are plenty of Australian weblogs. The Web is worldwide. Cover it, explain it, grieve it, if the […]