A simpler RDDL

A simpler RDDL. I do hope something like this reaches collective consiousness levels. I hate traversing namespace links only to get a 404 custard pie in the face.

Javascript gets Scheme-ish stuff

Rhino doing first class continuations and tail-recursion cleverness. Interesting.

RDF goes off the deep end

the social meaning of facts. What is truth? What is meaning? What does it mean for something to be right? Why do I feel a debate on jurisprudence coming on?

Brother Viktor sounds like a very interesting guy

Open Source puts down roots in Finland.
Sample

"We began using Linux at the beginning of 1998," Brother Viktor explained. "We run the usual stuff like firewall/router, web server (including a web store) and email, with the main infrastructure, and then also your typical disk and print sharing for Windows clients, and of course the centralized backups."

Behold the evolution of English

"My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 : kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."

The above phrase translated here occured in an English school essay in the UK.

Begorrah and jaypers, what a shockin age we live in! Dem gassures is taking liberties with the poor English crayture. Never seen the like on my oath :-)

Relax NG making steady progress in hearts and minds

WSDL 1.2.

What does it mean 'to talk'?

In the ITWorld archives What does it mean for one enterprise application to 'talk' to another?.
Business types and geek types have, for the most part, diametrically opposing models of what it means for one application to 'talk' to another.
This is the source of considerable confusion at best. At worst, it is at the root of why computing has such an awful ROI now that we have got passed WP and spreadsheets.