BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Marc Canter pointed to an upcoming conference, the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking, and the Semantic Web (also mentioned at RDFWeb and Danny Ayers). I wasn’t sure about a conference focusing primarily on Friend of a Friend, but looking through the Call for Papers topic list, the conference goes beyond the concept […]
I have several essays I’m working on, and as happens when you split your attention into completely different directions, you write and write, but you can’t finish anything. Or if you finish something, you’re not sure you’re happy with it. You feel grumbly, and dissatisfied, and kind of pissed at the whole thing. Rather than […]
During my recent walks in my favorite enchanted forest, I’ve noticed that every day there are fewer lightning bugs, and more well-fed robins. As quickly as nature creates magic, it erases it. Ah, but I’ve fooled that old, contrary lady because her work continues to live in my memory and in my writing. Well, I […]
Since PHP 5.0 released a day or so ago, I’ve been seeing how various applications I work with do in the new environment. Porting straight to PHP 5.0 seems to work just fine for the applications tested, including my weblogging tool, WordPress. Ah, but there’s more to upgrades than just a simple turning off of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. With the American election getting ever closer, the political games will continue to increase. If we’ve managed to stumble about in naiveté for the last three years, now is the time to wake up, and smell the cynicism. There have been a number of folk who have tried to generate […]