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Technology

Now that’s Semantic Web(?)

Danny pointed out SemaView’s new calendar based product, Sherba, congratulating them on a …winning application of SemWeb technologies. The company is using the iCal RDF Schema to create a windows-based application to manage and share event information through an interconnected calendaring system. My first reaction when I saw “window-based application” is to wince at the use of semantic web to what sounded […]

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Technology

The Ten Basic Commands of Unix

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. Once upon a time Unix used to be for geeks only — the platform of choice for godlike SysAdmins and obsessed hackers who muttered strange phrases and giggled over inside jokes, as they swigged gallon after gallon of Mountain Dew. Unix neophytes were faced with a blank screen and […]

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Connecting Internet

Fool you fool you

I never thought I would get to the point of welcoming emails offering to enlarge either my penis or breasts, to set me up with a single in my area, to show me girls with big boobies, or my friends from Nigeria with wonderous opportunities. Email after email, alternating: Thanks! Details My Details Your Details […]

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Web

Putting Hotlinks on Ice

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hotlinks — what a perfect word for the practice of directly linking to a photograph or other high bandwidth item on someone else’s server. Hot with its implication of hot goods and thieves passing in the cybernight. The proper term is “direct linking”, and while more technically accurate, the latter […]

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Web

Weblogging for poets-series published

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just published the final three parts of the Weblog Link Series, on permalinking and archives: Part 1 – The Impermanence of Permalinks Part 2 – Re-weaving the Broken Web Part 3 – Architectural Changes for Friendly Permalinking Part 4 – Sweeping out the webs