Birthday Snapshot #3

Another of my annual birthday snapshots. What's going on in my life at the moment? I doubt you're interested, but I am. So there! Home Well we stopped thinking about the loft conversion and went ahead and had one done. What a nightmare that turned out to be. Dust, mess, and disruption I was expecting. … Continue reading Birthday Snapshot #3 →

Ending HTTP Abuse

In Jon Udell's End HTTP Abuse piece he observes, as have many recently, that many of the popular web services don't do the right thing with GET and POST. In my paper for XTech this was one of the criteria I used to compare a number of different web services. The complete list of reviewed … Continue reading Ending HTTP Abuse →

ISWC 2005 Submission

As I've alluded to in the past we've been exploring moving our content repository over to an RDF triple store. It's turning out to be pretty massive, we've learnt a few things along the way, and no doubt have much more to learn as we continue with the project. Seemed worthwhile submitting a conference paper … Continue reading ISWC 2005 Submission →

New SPARQL Specification

I'm very pleased to see the publication of the latest SPARQL specification. It looked for a while as if FROM was going to be removed from the language, i.e. specifying the data set would be a protocol issue and not something supported in the query language. This seemed like a bad idea to me, not … Continue reading New SPARQL Specification →

Who Should You Vote For?

I just filled this out as an idle exercise to see that the results would be: Who Should You Vote For?. I don't feel that any party represents my views especially well, but my expected outcome was Liberal Democrat. You can see the results for yourself: Labour 8Conservative -21 Liberal Democrat 34 UK Independence Party … Continue reading Who Should You Vote For? →

Bath Local Heroes

So I read about the Tentacle Man, the Red Man, the Grey Lady and the Purple Man, and tried to find a picture of the much missed Bath Blue Man, but couldn't find one. Anyone care to share? His gimmick was to paint himself blue and stand immobile in an alcove next to the Roman … Continue reading Bath Local Heroes →

More Intermediary Patterns

Prompted by some contributions from Mark Pilgrim, I've just made another quick update to the intermediary patterns. This expands on the number of Data patterns to include Page Context Reader and External Context Reader and the Action patterns to include Restyler, Blocker, and Rearranger. Ryan Shaw is also looking at documenting his Greasemonkey script amazon2melvyl … Continue reading More Intermediary Patterns →

Patterns of Intermediation Continued

Continuing yesterdays theme and after a quick bout of structured procrastination, I give you a first working draft: Patterns of Intermediation. Little more than a shell-document, but I've included some named patterns to get the ball rolling. I'm intending to evolve the descriptions, provide examples, etc so that the patterns conform basically to the Portland … Continue reading Patterns of Intermediation Continued →