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2005-04-09
Reading Soul Music (Discworld)

Finally gotten some time to read again... Bought Soul Music the day my fiancee was in for her operation, and I was left to wait for hours.

Less than half way into it so far. I love the way Terry Pratchett manage to take parts of history or literature and ...

2005-04-09
Turtle parser update

My Turtle parser is getting along quite nicely. The parser bytecode itself still weighs in at less than a KB, and I've built a very simple RDF model and code to generate triples.

As it stands it now passes most of the pre-requisite tests specified in the Turtle spec. ...

2005-04-08
Paris here I come...

... for a day. I hate business travel. Absolutely hate it. I invariably end up with quick in and out trips - last time it was 3-4 hours in Munich and then back to the airport (that's the way I experienced Munich the 3-4 previous times as well). This time I'll ...

2005-04-07
Turf online

I tend to buy a lot of stuff online, with various degrees of success, but I much prefer it to spending time running from store to store - especially when it's bulky (I don't drive, never bothered learning how to, so I need delivery anyway). And now I've added buying turf ...

2005-04-07
Redland (RDF) backend for Movable Type

Kasei is working on a Redland bakend for Movable Type - article and screenshots here

This entry points to some of the promise of the semantic web: Harvesting data from the vast amount of semi-structured data stores already out there. Blogging software already collects data ...

2005-04-07
Wrong queue' for Star Wars fans

I will never understand what makes someone so excited about a movie that they'll camp out for weeks just to see it on the first day or two. I can hardly be bothered having to buy a ticket in advance even. So it is with a certain amount of glee I ...

2005-04-07
Parser assembler, RDF and Turtle

I've kept working on my parser assembler, but it's moving slow thanks to actually having a day job to do... However tonight I mostly finished a parser for Turtle - a subset of N3 that allows convenient specification of RDF triples.

It ended up at about 1KB of bytecode, ...

2005-04-06
IKEA for the lazy (or short of time)

www.unflatpack.com offers a personal shopper site for IKEA in the UK.

Interesting idea, as the one thing that annoy me with IKEA is actually having to go there - even though they do offer delivery, actually shopping there can be so annoying, and their delivery options are very ...

2005-04-06
Back from hospital

Nothing serious - just accompanying my fiancee who had a routine operation. But it was an interesting experience. I was actually quite impressed with the quality of care.

One of the interesting aspects of health care in Britain is that it is quite common to have private health insurance here, ...