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Technology

New tech

Today’s adventures in tech: other than pushing some data around, as well as pushing around some JavaScript and doing a bit of writing, I also purchased my first bluetooth mouse: a Logitech laptop mouse for my Powerbook. I like the mouse, but it seems to come disconnected rather frequently. My bluetooth keyboard from Apple doesn’t have this problem. Perhaps I’ll have to get that Apple bluetooth mouse after all.

I also ripped my first DVD, a Firefly show, using Handbrake. I am surprised at how easy it is, and why I never thought of trying this sooner. In addition to being easy to use, Handbrake also has about the prettiest program icon I’ve seen.

That’s it — my day in tech.

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RDF Semantics

Useful SemWeb posts

This efficient ways to store graphs in MySQL will come in handy.

The RDF/A draft for embedding RDF in XHTML has been released. I did a quick look at the spec and it does look good — the microformats people will be happy to see it.

I still believe that we don’t need to embed RDF directly into our web pages because many web sites are dynamic now. As such, if one accesses the page as a human, you get data formatted for human consumption through a browser; if you access the page as a webbot, by attaching /rdf to the end of the document, the same data is formatted for mechanical consumption. No need to clutter up web pages, or make page creation or generation that much harder.

However, have said this until blue in face, and am left feeling like tree falling in forest. So I’ll just point you to the spec while I do my own thing, secure the knowledge that it doesn’t matter how the data gets there, it’s all compatible thanks to RDF.

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Stuff

Lighter moments

Beware the Phil! Protect your textareas! Phil Ringnalda, responding from his semi-regular weblog hiatus to a quip by Anil Dash about being silenced:

While you were watching mailing lists, I landed three Firefox patches, including a FF2 blocker, and one that was once a 1.5 blocker in two different bugs, though we gave up on it later.

There’s just so very, very many textareas on the web: it’s hard to be sure there won’t be one I can put something into when the desire strikes.

Thanks to 3QuarksDaily, My Memories of My Geisha. Especially:

My geisha loves to unwind from her long, hard day of entertaining me by drawing me a warm, soothing bath, adding salts and mixing in exotic fragrances. She improvises a song about my hairy little potbelly. I’ve always been self-conscious about that feature on my body, but hearing it put into song makes me feel special.

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Just Shelley

Simple philosophy

I live by a simple philosophy:

I never say anything of a live person I wouldn’t be willing to repeat after they’re dead.

And I would never say anything of a person after their death that I wouldn’t be willing to say of them while they’re alive.

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Weblogging

Missing title

Gary Turner:

Maybe this is when it all unfurls and collapses in on itself, blogging having been completely consumed and repurposed by a cabal of MSM and faux-hip-and-late-to-the-party-but-hell-let’s-trash-it-anyway PR bods – and blogging’s core hacker ethic is finally sullied beyond sauvage after one too many commercial pisses in the proverbial punchbowl.