BurningbirdThis 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 […]
I just posted the first chapter of Practical RDF to the book review weblog. I plan on posting 2-3 chapters every day until all chapters are posted. I cancelled family commitments as I need to have the chapter reviews finished by the end of the month — I’ll be losing my web server November 4th, when the end […]
My father is an extraordinary man. He came of age in the depression, working in any job he could get — from timber camps in Alaska to being a railroad man. In fact, he was working for the railroad when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At the train’s next stop, he got off, found the […]