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RDF

PostCon – generating RDF/XML files

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that the Burningbird Network sites are getting back into the groove, time to bring this weblog back online. I’ve incorporated bits and pieces of the PostCon throughout this system. However, none of the implementations are a blinding flash or a deafening roar. And I’m not picking a fight with […]

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Just Shelley

A song on my 49th birthday

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I turned 49 today. Or, more precisely, I turned 49 this morning at 7:02am. I’ve reached the age where I’ve lived too long to die and leave a beautiful corpse. The the only other option open to me now is to live long enough to become a burden on society. […]

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Diversity

Neighborhoods

Last night a massive late fall storm hit our area, causing flooding and even generating funnel clouds not far from where we live. Today the trees are stripped bare for the most part, leaves littering the ground like summer’s last soldiers felled honorably on the field of battle. Except for one tree. One tree on […]

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Diversity

Change begins at home

The effects of my gender posts recently are starting to thread their way around, slowly but slow change is usually the most lasting change. Julia Lerman posts on an article with the deplorable title “Why can’t women keep up with men in high tech”. Julia writes: t’s more like this – most agree that in our programming […]

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Weblogging

Stopped short

I started doing something today, started whining about something, started ranting and raving in comments and in email, but not here in the weblog, when I realized that I was acting and soundling like some people I know through weblogging who I don’t really care for. That’s the thing when your words are in print […]