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RDF

S3 S404 RDF OK WRKS

First of all–isn’t there anything in any of the syndication feed specs that when a syndicated item returns 404 or like, some indication is made? Shouldn’t there be? In the meantime, I’ve been putting some thought into what I can do with S3. If you’ve been living under a rock (or conversely, are non-tech and […]

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Photography

Last spring

Friday I was able to get out for a few hours, for probably my last chance to take Spring photos. At the Gardens, the flowers were in their last glorious song before petals falling and giving away to the hotter, lusher tones and heat of the summer plants.   We talk about four seasons, but […]

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Weblogging

Look who came in from the cold

Tim Bishop at Geodog spotted the new post at Mark Pilgrim’s weblog. It’s all about bathin’ the baby. I personally liked the Beta patch in the corner–very 2.0. Whether Mark is continuing the weblog is hard to say. According to Mark in discussion at Sam Ruby’s weblog: Funny story, vaguely related: I was at FOO Camp last fall, and […]

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JavaScript RDF

Asking permission first

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has an interesting take on the use of AJAX: rather than have your server do the data processing, use AJAX to grab the data and then have the clients do the work: A server’s compute resources are usually at a premium, because it’s, you know, serving lots of different […]

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RDF Semantics

Acorns

From Jamie Pitts an article in the Guardian Spread the Word, and Join Up. In it, Tim Berners-Lee is quoted from a recent talk about new directions in RDF and the Semantic Web. I can agree with him when he says, The nice thing about RDF data is you can merge it. More than a ‘nice’ thing–to me, it’s […]