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Do something good for your soul. Go look at this using the largest and best monitor available to you.

Darren over lunch today was asking “What is The Semantic Web?” This led to a long and wind discussion of the various philosophies, some people for, and some against, and (tongue in cheek) I summed up a lot of my feelings about the topic in a single sentence: Create documents which are machine-readable, and only…

Woot. Subject: Googlewhack From: Peter.Taylor_Brown@tufts.foo Date: 3 May 2007 05:05:42 BST Your site is a googlewhack under the google search for “ywis jenga.” CONGRATULATIONS!

Well this sucks… From April 19th: vodafone_explains Vodafone has finally provided an explanation for the removal of VoIP features from the Nokia N95, and apparently it’s all for our own good. A Vodafone statement says the mobile operator doesn’t offer its own VoIP service because it doesn’t believe it’s a mature technology. It goes on…

From my posting today at Sun’s Security Community Blog: Sun Microsystems its own internal vocabulary, and one of the phrases which used to be common was that of the CNN Moment – a “damaging public infrastructure failure often experienced by dot-com enterprises” which presumably would be big enough and embarrassing enough to end up on…

http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/ We are very sad to bring you the news that Dohn Prout our indefatigable site manager passed away at the end of April. Dohn?s contribution to the work of the Trust has been immense. Everyone who has visited the Rollright Stones in the past few years will be aware of how much has been…

So I found an old presentation I did on “Active Content” security, back in 1997, and reading it I found that it’d be almost entirely reusable as an Ajax security overview; this inspired me… Click To Play – 1997 presentation on “active content” (PDF) – extra slides (PDF) – confused of calcutta – microsoft guy…

So, I’m installing LaTeX on my iMac …

Credo. Via Geoff. An Athiest At VA Tech (…) We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of…

Shame, I think, although in some way almost fitting. I suspect one of the ones that got destroyed in February was the balloon one on the South Bank… BBC News London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by “guerrilla artist” Banksy estimated to be worth more than £300,000. The image depicted a scene…

…is that people can hijack it, using Google. Enough said. (via Geoff)

Long-time readers will remember that in October 2005 I went to see Inspired Cycle Engineering in Falmouth, because I wanted a recumbent trike; incidentally the pictures of that trip have been moved to Flickr in a recent reorganisation, but the blog posting is still intact at the original URL. Well I’ve had a good year’s…