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.
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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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