A. There is nothing at the end of that namespace URI you know.
B. Then I won't dereference it.
A. But it might contain something we don't need to know!
B. Then I'd better dereference it to find out what isn't there.
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Interesting optical trick on a FoneBlog
Stare at it for 60 seconds. Close your eyes. What do you see? Very clever.
A good example of a semantic shadow for knowledge representation - FOAF-XML
Simon St. Laurent has implemented a mapping between a simple XML language - tuned to the problem domain - and its more general, but way more abstract RDF representation. This is a very nice example of what I referred to as a 'semantic shadow' in RDF and other monkey wrenches.
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
No ISSN's for Irish Blogs
I read about ISSN's for weblogs and made a few enquiries. Quoting from the reponse:
Oh, well.
- Certain categories of on-line publication are also eligible for ISSNs, weblogs, being specifically excluded.
Oh, well.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Python for .NET
Python for .NET is a near-seamless integration of the CPython runtime with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
Monday, August 11, 2003
Sublinking...or something
Dorothea wonders:
Beats me.
"Has any enterprising lit-critter come up with a term yet for what I just did in the last paragraph? Undercutting the literal meaning of the sentence on the page with the links I tied to it? Somebody must have. I see people doing this all over the place; I surely didn’t invent it.)"
Beats me.
Overheard at Extreme Markup (easily the best conference I've never been to) as reported on xmlhack:
I'd laugh if I could find room through the tears :-/
- "Implementability was not a goal of the Schema Working Group."
I'd laugh if I could find room through the tears :-/
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Blog link problems
Links to my blog from my RSS feed etc. are not working. Thanks to those who have reported the problem to me via e-mail. I've reported the problem to Blogger.
Emacs mode for Python goes to Sourceforge
python-mode is wonderful, wonderful thing if you are an Emacs using Python/Jython programmer. Highly recommended.
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