August 30, 2003
Book networking!
In what looks like a more literate version of Where's George comes Book Crossing. The idea is to take a...
August 28, 2003
Ah, the Maine coast
Five days in Maine. Wow, what a great trip. Chris and I headed up to Bar Harbor last Saturday for...
Vision details
Halley's surprise at seeing the world's detail is something I noticed on getting my first eyeglasses way back in '77....
August 22, 2003
Blocking spyware
Two tools no Windows should ever be without: Spybot Search and Destroy and SpywareBlaster. The combination of these two will...
August 21, 2003
Getting gas, again
Last week they said the house gas line was leaking so they replaced it. What they didn't realize was the...
Yet another drive crash
Cripes, yet another one of my machines has decided to have a drive crash! This time it's the linux box...
August 14, 2003
Oh the joys of home ownership
So I'm at home today and a man from the gas company comes knocking on the door. Apparently our 50...
That which they so richly deserve
I'm unsurprised with the latest situation surrounding virus attacks on Windows. When you've got the number one operating system it's...
August 13, 2003
What're you near?
I've been mulling over what would be a good way to indicate useful positioning data. There are any number of...
Those that rail against the idea...
All I can say to some of the folks so mightily railing against the idea of RDF is a soundbite...
August 12, 2003
Power supply testing
The AnandTech folks have done a comprehensive review of PC power supplies. Their Power Supply Roundup offers a rather extensive...
Viewing source?
Does the view-source: protocol handler work in things other than IE? view-source:http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/foaf.xrdf Using Internet Explorer on that link would bring...
August 10, 2003
Spheres of interest
Consider that you can use your Foaf file to make statements about what things are of interest to you. That...
August 09, 2003
Processing fragments?
What's better here? <hamsandwich:group rdf:resource="http://ideaspace.net/schema#parent/child"/> This: <hamsandwich:group rdf:resource="http://ideaspace.net/schema/parent#child"/> Or this: <hamsandwich:group rdf:resource="http://ideaspace.net/schema/parent/child"/> What I'm after here is a vocabulary listed...
Arnold for Governor
So has anyone starting calling him "the Governator" yet? I can't wait for the comedians to start applying quotes from...
August 08, 2003
It's about personas, not about identities
There's an important aspect about social software that a lot of folks seem to be missing. It's the idea of...
Ask a simple question...
This is cool, Sean's got a Foaf query web page set up....
Enlightenment is soooo elusive
Jon Udell: An RSS/RDF epiphany I've met Jon, read his book and have followed his comments over the years. He's...
Harvard being used as a Spamhaus?
What a hoot! Dave sends me a spam message inviting me to spend $500 to attend a conferernce he's coordinating....
Life is like a minefield sometimes
Imagine this scenario, you want to get somewhere but you have to hack your way through a forest first. You...
August 07, 2003
URI for postal codes?
What about making use of a URI for postal codes? Something like this: <near rdf:resource="http//ideaspace.net/postal/us#20817"/> The idea being that the...
Do not taunt Happy Fun Cat...
images/humor/kitty.mpeg">/images/humor/kitty.jpg"/> and images/humor/cats.avi">/images/humor/cats.jpg"/>...
Video drivers redux
Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece...
Video drivers redux
Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece...
If a programming language falls in the woods...
As I was reviewing feeds on Syndic8 I happened across when push comes to pop and this little gem: Collated...
August 05, 2003
No such thing as the good old days
Ever had to go back to using 640x480 resolution? Some video driver jiggery-pokery has landed me into VGA safe mode....
Commuity efforts
Just remember: "It takes a viking to raze a village."...
August 04, 2003
Dell WiFi goodness
Ah, how nice. I've just installed a Dell TrueMobile 1300 card in my Toshiba laptop. Now I can ditch the...
More FUD
sigh... Winer just lies and lies and lies. Here's the latest bits of his misleading comments from a news.com article....
Where good products go to die
Novell Acquires Ximian And of course the various nitwits will chime in about how this will or won't affect open...
Sales prevention
There's undoubtedly been a lot of research and a number of books written on the concept of retaining customers. I...
Always buy a spare
Grrr, yet another vendor decides to 'upgrade' their input device selections and leaves me screwed when my old one dies.
OWL and I don't mean birds
Dave Beckett links about RDF, OWL and schema as well as a comment about talking with analysts and journalists.
August 02, 2003
UI memory issues?
Riddle me this, when using Windows 2000 and opening a LOT of browser and other windows sometimes the UI starts...
Yet another reason to use RDF
A cool way to RDF for adding wireless networking and positioning data.
August 01, 2003
Geek fame
Behind the Computer...
Golf humor
My friend Susan Martielli is a golfer. I'm not a golfer. I've tried and while smashing a bucket of balls...
Documents vs triple stores?
There are several things that might confuse a person new to XML and looking at RDF.
