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Semantics

A battle of Beliefs: RDF, Natural Language Processing, and the future of the web

Last Week in HTML has been practicing its wicked ways, and pulled a quote from a comment I made to a post at Sam Ruby’s Ian is wrong. Absolutely, completely, and dead wrong. … rather than Ian shouting out “Hurrah!”, he says we must have five different solutions to the five problems, because to do otherwise is […]

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Burningbird Technology

Porting from WordPress to Drupal

If you access my Frugal Algorithm site right now, you’ll see a closed for maintenance sign. I am in the process of porting the site from WordPress to Drupal. WordPress is an excellent application, but I really do find it incompatible with my interests. I miss my Views, and the way that Drupal implements extensibility. […]

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Photography Plants

The Language of Flowers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday I took what will most likely be my last photographs of the annual orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Though the flowers still charm, trying to focus all my attention through the lens while simultaneously avoid stepping on an elderly man, or rambunctious child, has proven too much […]

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Web

When can you use…now if you choose

Continuing the theme of moving forward in web design… Several people have linked or otherwise noted Alexis Deveria’s excellent When Can I use… application. You can select from various options, including specifications or by browser, date, and so on, and you’ll get recommendations about what you can and can not use. I tried it by selecting all browsers but […]

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Technology

TOC the book…soon to be made into a movie

Writings from the TOC (Tools of Change) conference this last week have been made into a free eBook at O’Reilly. I’ve already downloaded it to my Kindle, and others have downloaded it to their Stanza application, but you can read it as a PDF on your computer. Heck, you can print it if you’re feeling […]