Loren Webster has been providing reviews of poetry by Archibald MacLeish, interspersed occasionally with lyrics from Van Morrison. These have become my calm, quiet moments in an otherwise stressful, somewhat jagged-edged day. Not being one for poetry, or at least, I assumed I wasn’t one for poetry, I found myself surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed […]
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O’Reilly twenty-five year anniversary
O’Reilly is celebrating it’s 25 year anniversary. That’s a lot of critters on a lot of covers. Congratulations to the many people I have worked with at O’Reilly, especially Simon, Tara, David, Andy, Linda, Ron, Edd, Nate, Todd, and Derrick I’m celebrating by finishing the first draft of the last book I’m writing for O’Reilly. Rah.
Next week I’m delivering to my editor the complete first draft of “Practical RDF” for O’Reilly. Yeah, finally. No one has seen the complete TOC, including the tools, APIs and whatever used in the book and I thought I would provide a heads up before the book is released for public review. If you’re interested, […]
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And they lived happily ever after
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A joke for you: A woman approaches the counter at a bookstore. The guy behind the counter smiles and says, “May I help you?” “Yes. I bought this book last week,” she said. “And I wasn’t able to put it down for a moment”. The clerk replied, “It was […]
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Practical RDF Weblog—Back in Action
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Practical RDF book weblog is back in action. I’ll be posting chapters, slowly, starting in the next couple of days. We’re trying to get the book into the publication process by end of the year, which means less weblogging, more book writing, and more coding. Discipline. Aren’t INTJ’s supposed to […]