All posts published during 2006.
The W3C Semantic Web Interest Group is considering URI best practices, whether to use LSIDs or HTTP URIs, etc. I ran into some of...
My wife does office work for a local professional and whenever I see her doing work that I know the computer could do for her, I...
Basketball season is here. Time to copy my son's schedule to my PDA. The organization that runs the league has their schedules...
In a Standards and Pseudo Standards item in July, Holger Knublauch gripes that SQL interoperability is still tricky after all these...
Tim presented the tabulator to the W3C team today; see slides: Tabulator: AJAX Generic RDF browser. The tabulator was sorta all...
Worse is better for external disk enclosures too I got a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb">USB 2.0 disk enclosure this...
Yesterday I plugged in a new 22" monitor that wants 1680x1050. Gnome was only offering up to 1280x1024 or something, so I chose...
In discussion following my presentation to the ACL 2 seminar, Bob Boyer said "Shoenfield is the bible." And while talking with...
This has been such a stimulating week that I wasn't sure how I was going to get it all into the web so that I could share it with...
Working with the MIT tabulator students has been such a blast that while I was at U.T. Austin for the research library symposium, I...
In our PAW and TAMI projects, we're making a lot of progress on the practical aspects of proof exchange: in PAW we're working out...
OmniOutliner is great; I used it to put together the panel remarks I mentioned an earlier breadcrumbs item. The XHTML export...
Wow. What a week! I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to get back to Austin, so I was happy to accept an invitation to this...
I'm trying out ubuntu today. The reasons are pretty arbitrary; I sat down to work on the family finances last night, but I wasn't...
I was pleased to find that <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai06.php">AAAI '06 in Boston a couple weeks ago had a...
<a href="http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimania 2006 was last week in Boston; I had it on my travel schedule,...
breadcrumbs fell over, again, today. Disk full. Probably the spam database filled up with drek. Again. While googling for reports...
My spanish is a little rusty, but it looks like inktel is having fun with the tabulator's map support too. tags pending: geo, tabulator
Please, don't ask me to manage another password! In fact, how about getting rid of most of the ones I already manage? For the ESW...
While planning a trip to Boston/Cambridge, I was faced with a blizzard of itinerary options from American Airlines. I really wanted...
The SIMILE Timeline is a nifty hack. DanBri writes about Who, what, where, when? of the Semantic Web, and in a message to the...
A while back I wrote about using JSON and templates to produce microformat data. I swapped some of those ideas in today while...
I just found this... Flocks has a nice WYSIWYG blog post editor that's a marvel to use. It does the quoting and citation for me. It...
In the working group that originally did RDFS, there wasn't enough confidence to standardize things that could express...
The developer track at WWW2006 last week in Edinburgh was really cool; you had to show up on time or you couldn't fit in the room!...
I went to Edinburgh last week for <a href="http://www2006.org/">WWW2006. I spent Tuesday in the workshop on <a...
Going over my calendar bookmarks I rediscovered TaskJuggler: TaskJuggler provides an optimizing scheduler that computes your...
My regular schedule of working group meetings and conferences had a gap in April, and my list of reasons to chat with <a...
As I said in a July 2000 message to www-rdf-interest: There are very few data formats I trust... when I use when I use the computer...
The <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/protocol.html">Google Data APIs Protocol is pretty interesting. It seems to be based...
For a long time, when it came to sharing code, life was simple: everything went into the w3ccvs repository via ssh; when I commit...
<img style="float: right" src="https://static.flickr.com/51/131626331_4d246d2ac0.jpg?v=0" alt="hgk screenshot showing lots of...
Consensus is a core value of W3C and lots of other open standards and open source communities. I used to think that a decision...
At the August PAW meeting, I dropped a pointer in IRC to sshAuth.py, my attempt to use sshagent to make digital signatures. I...
When I gave a microformats+GRDDL talk early this month, I listed my kid's soccer schedules on my wish list slide. Those soccer...
I have been <a href="http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2005/01/life_in_a_texta.html">living in a textarea since I started this...
The time and context permathread has heated up again. I used to argue with TimBL endlessly about time context until I read...
In Getting my Personal Finance data back with hCalendar and hCard, I discussed using JSON-style records as an intermediate...
Inspired by the SXSW hCard/google map mash-up, I'm geocoding some of my travel data. In palmagent, I started on a module to get...
I just tried out kiko, an ajax calendar service. It looks kinda cool, but it failed to import my calendar data ("invalid file") and...
I made a sort of new year's resolution for 2006: no more undocumented, untested code. I like to write little ditties for stress...
re-discovering dotfiles I thought I understood how .profile, .bashrc, .login worked, but it has evidently faded from memory. After...
<img alt="NYC view" src="https://static.flickr.com/56/112955693_2a52cfce5d_m.jpg" /> W3C had a workshop, Toward a more Secure Web...
The Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) is notoriously inadequate for clean import/export. The instructions for migrating Quicken data...
I fixed some markup errors in various of my posts last night. They all showed up on planetrdf again. Is drupal doing something...
Here comes (some of) the TAG Originally uploaded by Norm Walsh. The last item on the agenda of the TAG meeting in France was...
SxSWi looks to be quite the PathCross: The microformats panel on Monday is what put the conference on my radar this year, but it's...
When I heard about Wikimania 2006 in August in Boston, I put it on my travel schedule, at least tentatively. Then I had an idea......
I just updated the GRDDL profile page to document the easy way to use GRDDL before the hard way. This past week I swapped in all...
Prompted by a question about RDF schemas for dollars, gallons, and other units, I found myself looking into SUMO again. The...
Back in September, the TAG had this great whiteboard discussion of versioning. TimBL captured an omnigraffle version, which is nice...
The proof generation feature of cwm has been in development for a long time. The idea goes back at least as far as the section on...
Speaking of checking specs against tests, I suppose the first time I did that was when I was editing HTML 2. I maintained a...
In order to cross one of the few remaining t's on the SPARQL spec, I wrote bnf2turtle.py today. It turned out to be such a nice...
I keep all sorts of calendar info in the web, as do my colleagues and the groups and organizations we participate in. Suppose it...
My habits for developing quality code in python are bumping up against the fact that the deployment platforms for the web client...
Just after I saw the news that Norm is killing his RSS feed in favor of Atom, in my city's newsletter, they tout that they're...
I went into MadScientistMode Tuesday night. (my notes say 2006-02-01; it was after midnight when I dated them, i guess). Internal...
crap; This emacs CUA-mode doesn't really work. If I copy from firefox and ctrl-v in emacs, it pastes the last thing I yanked from...
Almost every RDF store actually stores more than triples; they store "quads" or "contexts" or provenance or something... The cwm...
My January travel took me to MIT for a one-day DIG meeting where the main thing I can remember is discussion of CSAIL's support for...
I ran across Ping on improvisation the other day. It seems he learned to play mostly from sheet music. I mostly learned by playing...
CUA-mode, where have you been all my life?!?!?! Found in some comments on Gerv's search for an editor. Could it be true? No more...
The 14 December <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2005/12/jingle-bells.html">jingle announcement gives a hint into...
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