Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12oct2007
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – with semantic technology, thus turning it into a semantic wiki. While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in a database. Lightweight enough it could work.
Favourite Unicode Codepoints, these really rock.
MCL 5.2 goes open-source. A bit late, now everyone is using Intel.
OAuth is an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part
— Tom Petty, The Waiting
Death special: How does it feel to die?, learn all the different ways.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to Al Gore. And not for the invention of the internet! (Which honestly would be more worth the prize than making another movie about climate change.)
ocamljs, an OCaml to Javascript compiler. ML to JS seems to get popular, this is a good thing.
You’re Doing It Wrong, I love it! Let’s make another t-shirt.
Changes in Ruby 1.9, Oct. 07 update, by Mauricio Fernandez. “This is a summary of the changes in Ruby 1.9 between Feb. and Oct. 07.”
And its wake up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise and shine
— Tom Petty, Wake Up Time
HTTP response signing abstract model, by James Clark. Maybe this will get somewhere.
FreeCell: General Information and Index of Solutions, compiled by Michael Keller, based on earlier lists by Dave Ring and Wilson Callan. Features the impossible deal and Laura Ross, who played all games and won them except for five. WJW.