The Room Do I dare disturb the universe?

Google Is Self Aware

Google is Self Aware… Google Search: define:google So I went to lookup a definiton for a word, and google presented me with one of it’s new tools “define:” searches. This is I think one of the best tools google has provided me yet, it presents so many possiblities. You can have a hypertext version of a story, and link the large words to like ... Read more

Programmer Wanted ... Drummers Need Not Apply.

Programmer wanted … Drummer’s need not Apply. GrepLaw | John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs Now, tell me how musicians can make a living in an environment where oligopoly distributors steal their creative work as a “work for hire”, pay them by the hour for creating it, regardless of how well it sells, lock them in by contract fo... Read more

Oh My

Oh My… The athens 2004 olympics have a rather hideous Hyperlink Policy (which I just violated). It requires you to present a request in writing before hyperlinking. You can go ahead and link after mailing the request, because they will only contact you if they feel it’s not appropriate. Talk about draconic, and well technologically backwards. Read more

My Comments Are Done

My Comments are Done I stumbled across a post on Zenarchery.com which summed up alot of feelings I’ve had about blogging in the last two years or so. The personal stuff, well...I'm just realizing that lots of people I know read this blog -- people I've had romantic relationships with, people I have professional relationships with, people I owe... Read more

Rdf Is Hard

RDF is hard So I’ve been working on moving the Perl Monger XML over to XML/RDF. But like SemWeb Barbie says “RDF is Hard”. I finally got a small sample to validate clean but I want to re-arrange things so that I can easily parse it using XML::LibXML or some other fairly simple parser, so it can then be transformed by Template Toolkit. Why I hea... Read more