I chatted with my Practical RDF editor, Simon St. Laurent, and we decided to open up the technical book review to my weblog readers as well as the RDF Interest Group and the RSS Developers group. I created a new weblog to support this effort, Practical RDF — a book, and have posted the current Table of Contents […]
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To sleep, perchance to dream
All I’ve wanted to do for the past few weeks is sleep. As soon as the sun goes down, I’m ready for bed. I’m ready for bed now, and it’s only 7:45pm. It’s not the weather — Fall is my favorite time of the year, and the weather has been wonderful lately. And it isn’t […]
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Essential blogging
“Essential Blogging” has hit the streets, available at a bookstore near you. O’Reilly has put my chapter, “Advanced Blogger”, online if you want a peek. I haven’t received my copies yet. Hopefully soon. In the meantime, I’m finishing up the writing for the RDF book in the next few weeks. Time to weblog less, work on book […]
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The Parable of the Languages
Archived at Wayback Machine, including original comments If programming languages could speak, really speak, not just crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both wise and profound. After all, the original programmers were philosophers, and programming languages were philosopher tools… In Babble Meadow, in the twilight hours between day […]
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Death by a thousand paper cuts
I’ve always had this thought at the back of my mind that we would live forever if it weren’t for life intruding. Aside from the effects of our environment, of gravity and solar radiation and our proclivity in fouling our own nests, we could live much longer than we do except that we keep persisting […]