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Just Shelley

Swivel stick

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Loren, who has been sharing tales of courage and horror from his fearsome youth, recounted one incident with a slippery log and a fall into a swift stream. Ever since, he’s hiked out of his way to avoid having to use logs to cross streams. (He and I also shared a five […]

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Climate Change

Clean coal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After reading about the trapped coal miners in West Virginia, I think we’re ready for another playing of GE’s Ecomagination take on coal mining. And what a timely reminder of Bob Dylan and It’s alright Ma (I’m only Bleeding): Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns […]

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RDF Technology Weblogging

A credible coder

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]

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Weblogging

If we could take back anger

If you’ve ever left a comment and then come back to the page, unless you’ve somehow changed your IP address, you’ll see an option to edit your comment. This post-published comment editing feature is one I’ve been testing for several months, without once running into a problem. Yesterday and today I added HTMLEditor for it, […]

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RDF

PHP API for SPARQL?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know of a PHP implementation of SPARQL? Not the adorable kitten who I happen to be god-mother to (and who I can’t connect to at the moment); the W3C RDF/XML query language. I have my old Query-o-Matic that works — barely — using RDQL, but need to create […]