BurningbirdAs AKMA reminds us, new disasters have happened recently–Hurricane Stan and the earthquake in Pakistan–that seem to have fallen below the blogging radar. This is in addition to the longstanding disasters such as the continued mass starvation in Africa. With environmental impacts due to global warming, and an increased population that is both more widely distributed and more […]
If you blinked you missed Hurricane Vince–a storm that formed in cool water, from a small beginning, exploding into a hurricane almost immediately, and then hit Spain: a country never before hit by cyclonic activity. We may actually make it through the alphabet this hurricane season. And if patterns continue, next year could be worse. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In addition to being on a panel at SxSW next year, I’m also giving a full day tutorial on RDF at XML 2005 on November 18th. Which also happens to be my birthday. This is not going to be a passive exercise. I won’t be putting up slide after Powerpoint slide. There […]
Stripper plugin update: Rather than strip out the hypertext links, I’m going create the RDF data entries whenever the post is saved, but only remove the links temporarily, and only when the page is displayed. This way the links are maintained within the text, which should reassure at least one person who I know might […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had this nightmare. In it, I was back in Boston working at Skyfish.com again. I can see myself, sleeping in the bed in the expensive loft apartment the company sub-leased for me that was right across the alley from the offices. It’s 4:30 in the morning and the alarm […]