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Burningbird

The Escapes

I can see I need to improve my use of escapes with quotes in some of my semantic web technology, though the effect can sometimes be a bit humorous. I’m about to publish a series of posts on photography, but before I do I have a question: has my site been as slow for you […]

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Burningbird

On a lighter note

I have a post coming later on a lovely walk I had yesterday. With photos, of course. In the meantime, I think I’ve made my last, my absolute last, tweak of the design for Burningbird. I’ve lightened the blockquote colors, and added a graphic at the end of the content column in the main page. […]

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Just Shelley

Predictions

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Since making predictions is the thing to do this time of year, I’m also going to indulge. However, rather than predict what others do, I’m going to take a look at predicting what I’m going to do. I figure I have the same odds at being found correct a year from now. […]

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Books

It’s cool to be evil

I think Dave’s got the right of it: kicking Google, like kicking Wikipedia, is the new cool. Oh, I have my doubts about both; but then, I’ve always had my doubts about both. Even when the lemmings flocked on the side of do no evil. I do want to point out, though that my Practical RDF book is in […]

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Writing

Clarion call

AKMA wrote on authenticity and referenced me in his work. He wrote: Or to put it another way (because I admire Shelley, and I want to share out my links), if we were to find out that the Burning Bird’s phoenix-song were very carefully composed, to convey the effect of having been written by someone very […]