As I had said a couple of weeks ago, I started working a new blog engine and look & feel for my corner of the web. I didn’t really spend a lot of time on this. It was mainly attracting my attention when I wanted to take my mind off …
Hmmm! Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion Read more [...]
Interesting short talk by Barry Schwartz. His great presentation style reminded me of Jeremy Frey who also uses cartoons in his talks. I am not sure I completely agree with all Prof. Schwartz’s points but his talk definitely gives food for thought. There is a lot of truth in his …
… about global warming. Read more [...]
I loved this… At one point the discussion lit a fire under the Admiral, and the talk of human rights turned personal for Edward James Olmos. The “Old Man” launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one …
/**/ It’s absolutely amazing! The guys over at MSR managed to bring the same experience from the Windows client into the browser. It’s beautiful. (Linux and Macs should be able to use WWT now). Tip: Go and select one of the guided tours. Read more [...]
/**/ Earlier today, Jim and I were discussing the structure and content of our “Hypermedia Services” chapter for our book (tentatively titled “GET /Connected”). The book is getting along really nicely. I think we are way beyond mid-point, dare I say 3/4 of the way? :-) A new idea about …
An interesting short article on Research’s fourth paradigm, something that Jim Gray used to talk about a lot. Here’s the concluding paragraph: Data-intensive science will be integral to many future scientific endeavors, but demands specialized skills and analysis tools. In addition, the research community now has the option of accessing …
We are on a roll. Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Pablo Fernicola are executing in an amazing rhythm :-) Well done guys! Yesterday, we announced the availability of Famulus Beta 2. Today, the team announced the release of two of my favorite projects: Creative Commons plugin and Ontology plugin*. Of …
It took us a little longer than we would have liked but it’s finally live. LOTS of fixes from Beta 1, an API for introducing new data models either declaratively or at runtime, authentication and authorization support, modularization of data models and matching APIs, and much more. Here’s the announcement: …
I had seen this some time ago. A posted link by one of my contacts in Facebook reminded me of it. Great presentation style. Read more [...]
/**/ Remember those experiments with MGrammar and Famulus? “Building an MGrammar-based application for Famulus” “Famulus and M – Added symmetric relation” As part of some more coding effort on knowledge graphs and inferencing, I thought that it’d be cool to evolve my Domain-Specific Language so that it modifies itself. As …
/**/ Simon Woodman and Einar Volset were visiting during the week. We went out for dinner, together with David Ingham. I took them to my favorite pizza place in Queen Anne, Via Tribunali. It was a lot of fun seeing them. At the end of the dinner, Einar took all …