W3C TAG recommends against XRI progressing and XRI usage

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Dave Orchard
on May 21, 2008 10:52 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078  The W3C TAG has finally finally said what we've been wanting for a long time.  http: URIs are a very very very good thing.  Replacing ICANN/DNS and http: URIs are a bad thing.  'nuff said...

Bristol 3 miler with TBL and DanC

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Dave Orchard
on May 21, 2008 9:32 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We staggered out at 7 am for a beautiful run in Bristol.  An excellent idea.  The route was Bristol 3 miler from RodneyFind more Runs in Bristol, United Kingdom...

iMac purchased, the Applimilation begins

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Dave Orchard
on May 14, 2008 9:38 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
I just purchased an iMac for our living room.  We went for the 20" with 4GB ram and 750GB hard-drive for all our kids videos.  HD sure chews up room.  It should arrive just after I get back from the...

Moving on from BEA

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Dave Orchard
on May 6, 2008 10:17 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
As of Friday, May 9th, I'm moving on from BEA Systems/Oracle.  It's been an amazing 7 years.  I've had a chance to be part of a great standards team from formation to transition.  I know that the BEA standards folks that are making...

XTech 2008

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Dave Orchard
on May 2, 2008 1:08 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I'm going back to Dublin next week to speak at XTech 2008.  I'll be speaking on versioning using XML Schema 1.0 and upcoming Schema 1.1 features.  Last year was the first time we ever went to Dublin, and now I'm...

Some Bisphenol-A(BPA) myths and facts

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Dave Orchard
on April 27, 2008 10:25 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
In all the hysteria about Bisphenol-A, it's been hard to find any real facts.  Simple things like: What's the real danger using our baby bottles? What are the effects of washing bottles?  In particular, if we already have been washing...

Amazon adds disk volumes to EC2

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Dave Orchard
on April 14, 2008 10:56 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We can now use persistent local storage, aka volumes with EC2, rather than the S3 operations.  This could be used for a database for example.  Very simple unix commands to create, attach, mount, mkdir etc.  ...

First outright deception from our kids

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Dave Orchard
on April 7, 2008 10:49 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Yesterday our 28 month old daughter wanted to take a marker out of her "grampa"'s office, but we said she needed to keep the marker in the office.  We said she could take the paper with marks on it out,...

Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Dave Orchard
on April 7, 2008 10:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I did some research on how SEO works.  Herein are my findings.   Optimize pages All of the following are important: Keywords, Metadata, Content, inward links, header tags, alt tags, internal links, website structure, website theme, website code, use css,...

Penny to be eradicated

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Dave Orchard
on April 2, 2008 11:44 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Hopefully the private members bill passes and we'll finally get rid of the penny.  Next up, nickels.  ...
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Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "heading to heathrow for return home."
  • tweeted, "Versioning GPN: "To facilitate independent evolution of producers and consumers, languages in distributed systems should be extensible""
  • posted At a Bristol pub with the TAG and Semantic Web folks
  • tweeted, "@tommorris, I totally agree on all the URI re-inventions. HT and I are working something, and we did http://icanhaz.com/UrnRegistries"
  • tweeted, "W3C TAG recommends against XRI progressing and XRI usage: http://tinyurl.com/6qxdqh http://tinyurl.com/59gehr"
  • saved the link TAG recommends against XRI from Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) on 2008-05-21 (www-tag@w3.org from May 2008)
  • tweeted, "Bristol 3 miler with TBL and DanC: We staggered out at 7 am for a beautiful run in Bristol.  An excell.. http://tinyurl.com/6955xv"
  • tweeted, "#TAG f2f talking about Architecture of WWW vol 2. Walled gardens, URIs, tagsoup, versioning, naming, OAuth, Ajax/security..."
  • tweeted, "@webmink anything by juana molina is a good call."
  • tweeted, "@christo4ferris, @psd, @distobj, @stilkov, time to just say no."
  • tweeted, "Poring through XRI specs and shaking my head. How is the base XRI set so that relative XRIs can be XRI normalized then converted to URIs?"
  • tweeted, "Yay! PasswordsInTheClear-52 is approved by the #TAG to get final comments from the public. Just a bit of cleanup to do.."
  • tweeted, "Up at 5:15 am is not my idea of a good time. At least I got to call home during their evening time. Off to get some exercise."
  • tweeted, "hello darkness my old friend. We are again talking about the definition of language, accept set, & information for versioning."
  • tweeted, "Off to day 1 of #TAG f2f in bristol. Slept 10 hours last night, woohoo!"
  • tweeted, "Arrived at the Rodney. Are @ndw or @dckc here yet?"
  • tweeted, "Arrived in lhr. off to meet @mattb."
  • tweeted, "Off to the first farmers market of the year. Hopefully the tomato guy will be there with his plants and we can plant them this afternoon."
  • tweeted, "Enjoying the wonderful weather. BBQ and dinner on the back deck. Perfect start to summer. Sadly I get onto a plane tomorrow."
  • tweeted, "Leaving tomorrow for TAG f2f and meeting with @mattb"

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