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RDF specs and APIs have made a bit of a mess out of a couple pretty basic tools of math and computing: graphs and logic formulas....
Since my Sep 2006 visit to the ACL 2 seminar, I've been trying to get my head around existentials in ACL2. The lightbulb finally...
I promised myself a new G1 phone for Christmas as a reward for being a "stalwart" in the HTML process@@link to Tim Bray; financial...
Blog spam went out of control again; the only remedy I could find was a very big hammer: turn off the drupal comments module...
I have a home movie that I just want to show to just a few friends around the Web. With OpenID, I should be able to just give my...
GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL...
At a conference, like in a good coding session, it's too easy to lose track of time, so I rely heavily on a PDA to remind me of...
I was visiting a friend and I wanted to play Back When I Could Fly and the easiest way was to burn a CD and put it in their CD...
I have a new bookmark. No, not a del.icio.us bookmark; not some bits in a file. This is the kind you have to go there to get.. go...
I just discovered Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device. About $10 per e-book sounds ok, but $0.10 to put my own files on...
I want to brainstorm about a bunch of issues in preparation for the HTML WG meeting this week. tracker's forms interface won't let...
As Simon Willison notes, OpenID solves the identity problem, not the trust problem. Meanwhile, FOAF and RDF are potential solutions...
The schedule for this fall soccer season came out August 11th. I got the itinerary for the trip I'm about to take on July 26. But I...
We're long overdue for standard URIs for units of measure in the Semantic Web. The SUMO stuff has a nice browser (e.g. see meter),...
Last Tuesday, TimBL started to gripe that the WWW2007 program had lots of stuff that he wanted to see all at the same time; we both...
One my trip to Duke, just after I arrived on Thursday, Pat Hayes gave a talk about IKL; it's a logic with nice Web-like properties...
I went to the 1st International HASTAC Conference, April 19-21, 2007 at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. My stated role was to...
I have been tracking the mercurial project for a couple years now. First just a bookmark under python+scm, then after using hg to...
In #swig discussion, Tim mentioned he did some writing on labels and rules and OWL which prompted me to flesh out some related...
A while back, somebody turned the Monty Python Burn the Witch sketch into an example resolution proof. Bijan and Kendall had some...
The W3C Semantic Web Interest Group is considering URI best practices, whether to use LSIDs or HTTP URIs, etc. I ran into some of...
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...
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...
OmniOutliner is great; I used it to put together the panel remarks I mentioned an earlier breadcrumbs item. The XHTML export...
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...
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 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...
I went to Edinburgh last week for <a href="http://www2006.org/">WWW2006. I spent Tuesday in the workshop on <a...
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!...
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...
I just tried out kiko, an ajax calendar service. It looks kinda cool, but it failed to import my calendar data ("invalid file") and...
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...
In Getting my Personal Finance data back with hCalendar and hCard, I discussed using JSON-style records as an intermediate...
<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...
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...
Here comes (some of) the TAG Originally uploaded by Norm Walsh. The last item on the agenda of the TAG meeting in France was...
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...
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...
The 14 December <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2005/12/jingle-bells.html">jingle announcement gives a hint into...
In #swig discussion today, I (re?)discovered Ian Davis's FRBR and RDF. Nifty stuff, but this business of making two properties for...
Hmm... the list of CivicSpace modules looks pretty interesting; TinyMCE is already on my breadcrubms todo list. Maybe just grab...
Wow... while surfing wikipedia for yellow pages, I found Wikicompany [[ * Semantical annotations will allow people (or machines) to...
Managing passwords via email callback is hampered by anti-spam mechanisms. I just helped a breadcrumbs user whose password message...
A couple MIT students have found their way to the #dig channel and asked about UROPs during IAP. I'm still learning about student...
A couple years ago, my flight to BOS for some meeting (the TP?) got me in at about 8:00 on a Tuesday night. I arrived with no plans...
Our RSS feed is plaintext, so when it's syndicated in Planet RDF and the like, there are no links or pictures or even paragraph...
In the W3C formalized digital library, we supplement the dublin core with a formal model of the W3C Rec-track process and various...
<img style="float:right" src="https://static.flickr.com/20/69709256_9ed8c30945_m.jpg" alt="Go-Kart medal ceremony" /> I'm writing...
Via Karen in the TAMI project, I gather last month the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security announced the...
@@Nov 2004 work on SPARQL testing SPARQL defns in MathML, N3 mathmlRules.xsl, which converts a little bit of MathML to N3. <math...
Somebody listed SAML+XACML as an access control model, and I asked for a summary, as contrasted with the unix user/group/world...
The drupal theme we're using is XHTML-happy, but doesn't know that it's rude to change the font size of body text. Anybody wanna...
My talk was: @ <abbr class= "dtstart" title="2005-11-16T14:45-0500">2:45 on Weds : <a class="summary url" id="we_lb4" href=...
Shortly after I started at Microsoft, I had the opportunity to meet with the people behind Exchange, Outlook, MSN, Windows Mobile,...
I've been playing around with the drupal taxonomy module. Why doesn't XML2005 show up under conferences? I wonder how to export the...
I'm paying a doctor bill online. Checkfree asks me for the name, address, and phone number. I'm sure it's in yahoo yellow pages. I...
Brian King on piggy bank, solvent, via planet mozilla
I just finished a phone/IRC meeting. The norm is to have an email record of it. xchat automatically logs my channels. So I can go...
In a PAW project discussion of writing assignments for WWW2006, KR, etc., I asked that we use XHTML rather than LaTeX to...
In the TAMI project, K is giving us clues about how the U.S. federal government works. She told us a bit about the federal...
I recently took a turn leading discussion in the Notions & Notations class; I presented Issues in Semantic Web Logic, a hasty set...
skipping rocks Originally uploaded by DanC. ... skipping rocks. This post is prompted by a desire to test the flickr posting...
Requirements that at least one tool has failed: blockquote (-gnome-blog) lists (-gnome-blog) intra-page links (-b2evolution editor)...
The features of the systems that people build with PHP cannot be deined. We're pretty committed to drupal for this breadcrumbs...
After ryanlee's cool hack to repost wordpress items to drupal via the blogger API, Eric M. asked if Ryan had seen SIOC. I took a...
What's the world coming to? I just saw an ad for soap on sourceforge. No, not SOAP the web services XML thing; soap; you know, the...
Fire at Highfield campus... Fire destroys top research centre ... Good to hear the SemWeb people aren't effected[sic] -- folks in...
I'd like to... integrate my delicious bookmarks into this blog, at least selected tags. I'm not alone; there's a module. tag these...
After a cwm/paw dev meeting we had a nice #swig hack-n-chat.
Writing to this journal involves Yet Another Password. Sigh. Oh for OpenID support in drupal. Some folks seem to be working on it....