Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

29jul2005

The Library at Semantic Web has some megabytes of useful RDF data.

Data First vs. Structure First, Stefano Mazzocchi compares. In the end a kind of “Worse is Better”, though.

This is where I’m gonna be
For the forseeable time
If you wanna hang out too
I couldn’t wish for no more than that
— Dan Bern, South American Motel

draig fach neis by Sanddef

At the Forge — Getting Started with Ruby by Reuven Lerner. There could be nicer code there.

My OPML blog, because everone has one now. But I at least use a self-compiled version of the editor.

Guidelines to development on the Hollywood Operating System, rules.

Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6 by chromatic. It sounds easier than I thought.

What I want from Windows, Jonathan Gennick has some nice points: “Ship Windows with some sort of built-in programming environment.”, “Throw in a really good text editor.”

RFID Hysteria by Bill Glover. But being paranoid is fun!

Web Programmers Pool fully Allocated by Steven Douglas Olson.

more bouncy balls by sem

Queens and Knights solved in J. There is magic in this noise.

Debian Package Browser using tags. Great idea.

Firefox Downloads Top 75 million, congratz! Now make it work better on OS X.

Tina Tahir is a great London photographer. Too bad her portfolio is buried in Flash. Other resources exist too, see e.g. Time out of mind.

Die Stauffenberg Light Show: Ketzerisches zum 20. Juli von Tom Appleton. Kommt ein bisschen spät, ist aber lesenswert.

Die neue Wut von Peter Nowak. “Dokumentarfilm über die Montagsdemonstrationsbewegung zeigt, dass diese womöglich mehr bewirkte, als man gemeinhin glaubte”.

Danke, Dein Root kennt keine Schranken,
Danke, ich halt’ mich fest daran,
Danke, Admin, ich will Dir danken,
Dass ich danken kann.
— Dialerwatch, Danke

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, and I have to tell you that I really appreciate that I’m not a sysadmin. *smirk*

The methods and bias of the media by Michael Leza. “For one thing, stop watching corporate media.”

How to Schmooze at OSCON by Robert Bernier. “Conferences, like OSCON, provide a meeting environment for like-minded individuals.” Well, first, you should get there…

The Practicality of OO PHP by David Day. IMO, it’s not signficantly better than Perl’s.

IMG_6617 by repal

Yak shaving my way to Ubuntu, Joi is on a good way.

Cisco tries to silence researcher, full disclosure rocks.

Generics “Considered Harmful” by Bruce Eckel. “As much as Java people like to dis C++ for just about everything, C++ templates are much more straightforward than Java generics, because they are consistent.”

Bios Urn, Bio is an urn for ashes, which transforms the ritual of death into an act of regeneration and life. Perfect for atheists.