Book Of Pages

A few weeks ago the Dodds family joined Bath library (or re-joined in my case). Ethan loves reading so it was an opportunity to introduce him to the delights of the public library as well as an opportunity for Debs and I to save some money; if we enter Waterstones we buy books, end of … Continue reading Book Of Pages →

Jena 2 Upgrade

Just a quick note to say that I upgraded the FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 to use Jena 2.0.0-beta1 and found the migration pretty painless. I'd read Shelley's Jena week articles as preparation so had a good idea about what I needed to do. For the most part it was just changing imports, and switching to use … Continue reading Jena 2 Upgrade →

SVG Wiki Plugin

Danny has graciously ported his SvgWhiteBoard plugin over to JSPWiki. Raw Blog: SvgWhiteBoard plugin for JSPWiki

Hypertext ’03 Papers

Just noticed that the papers from the Hypertext '03 conference are online. Some interesting stuff to dig into there. Hypertext'03 Conference: Complete List of Papers You can also download PDFs of the poster presentations and demos.

A Trip To The Hospital

Debs and I took a trip to the hospital this morning. Usually a tense experience this one had a happy side to it as we were going to see the consultant about a delivery date for the birth. I've gotten to know Bath Royal United Hospital like the back of my hand recently. First there … Continue reading A Trip To The Hospital →

FOAF Concerns, revisited and discussed

Shelley Powers has posted a list of concerns that she has with FOAF as currently defined and used: Practical RDF: Danger, Will Robinson: Part 2 To summarise, these are: Inappropriate use of Myers Briggs propertyWhat does foaf:knows mean?Social implications of foaf:knowsPublishing data about other people For more details on each see Shelley's post. These set … Continue reading FOAF Concerns, revisited and discussed →

BBC Archives Going Online?

Excited to see this piece: Dyke to open up BBC archive It'd be great to be able to access archives of the BBC's output online, especially if its reasonable quality. Who needs a Tivo?! I hread rumours that the BBC's archives are in a hopeless mess, so I wonder how long it'll take them to … Continue reading BBC Archives Going Online? →

Dynamic Languages and Linking

Ted Leung points to some interesting comments from Jon Udell and Don Box about Dynamic languages, virtual machines, information clients, and more. This is related to some musings of my own, which, as you can see from the stream of consciousness style of the Wiki page, may not be coherently expressed at the moment, but … Continue reading Dynamic Languages and Linking →

XML Catalogs and Namespace Documents

Whilst writing a tutorial on XML Catalogs I started thinking about dereferencing namespace URIs again. Yes, I'm a sucker for punishment. What follows is some thoughts about using XML Catalogs in conjunction with namespace dereferencing... Let's take a moment for a brief recap. As a result of a lot of discussion on XML-DEV we have … Continue reading XML Catalogs and Namespace Documents →

Bob the Angry Flower

Via 2lmc spool: Bob the Angry Flower. Which has been giving me a chuckle or two over lunch today. It was Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe that initially caught by attention. I get all irrational when I see Dodd's (for the record, it should be Dodds's). And don't even get me started on "Dobbs".