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Just Shelley

Spoke too soon

I spoke too soon on not needing anything. I was working with my laptop on my lap, when a thin line of color streaked across the monitor. I can’t get rid of it, even when I re-boot, which means it’s a hardware problem – probably to do with the casing and the problem I’ve had […]

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RDF Writing

2005 Errata and book updates: Chapter 1

I still like my analogy to the elephant and the blind men, in chapter 1. People still see RDF, and more generally, the Semantic Web (or my preferred, the lowercase semantic web), from different viewpoints, and with different expectations. That hasn’t changed, and by the nature of the beast, never will. Good. Keeps life interesting. […]

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Burningbird

Good news bad news

The Good News is: The trackback and comment spammers couldn’t get through while my ISP was under DDoS attack this evening.

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RDF Writing

Reviews and updated chapters

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just read a review of Practical RDF out at Amazon that wasn’t very complimentary. In fact, I’ve had few complimentary reviews of the book, which can happen with a book. Sometimes you hit; sometimes you miss. I can’t do much about the typos in the book (though these really […]

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Just Shelley

What the bluebirds and the cardinals say

The St. Louis metropolitan area lost its last chance for a White Christmas when the major storm headed our way was actually pushed to the south of us by our cold, blustery weather. A few years back, I would have been disappointed, but now I’m philosophical, having learned to let go of all holiday expectations. […]