Owner: Daniel Lewis URL:http://www.vanirsystems.co.uk/danielsblog/ Join Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:32:18 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Daniels blog is all about his personal, academic, technological and business life. He often blogs about the Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and Ruby On Rails. The blog is sometimes a personal one too, so often contains opinion (and maybe bias and rants). Daniel has Site statistics:Click here
1 step closer 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Right, howdy.
I am 1 step closer
to PhD wonderfulness. I spoke to someone in the computing department yesterday, and she has told me a few people to speak to - looks like i should be able to get some funding, and looks like the department would be interested in such ...
Lots of things 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Lots of things
are going on at the moment. Some are quite personal, so sorry if I don't post much over the next few days.
New job is going well, I started today. Well, the damn buses made me late for the second work today. It is quite good though.
Early Again 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Hello all,
I am up early again, although a little later than yesterday.
Just like to point out how the weather has beeen over the last few days: Thursday Sunny, Friday Rain, Saturday Sunny, Sunday Rain. Its quite annoying, especially as I want to go to Wheatley to check out the books ... Read more:Early
, Again
Early rise 0000-00-00 00:00:00 So I am awake really early for some reason, even though I had a late night.
Time to think about PhD is getting closer and closer, especially as I am going back to Brookes to do my final year (of my BSc).
I am not in the right mood to do much ... Read more:Early
Obj-C 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Howdie everyone!
If anyone has Objective-C experience and would like to be involved in an Open Source Project then please let me know. Thankies.
I need sleep... but there are more important things right now.
Talk soon
Wordpress Spam and Other News 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Woo, my blog system (wordpress) has been catching spam comments... which is great, they go into moderation and I tell wordpress its spam and it gets rid of it all.
So I am up early. I need to go to Wheatley, it was a bit silly of me to get up ... Read more:Wordpress
Fair Beans 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I really can't think of anything to blog about at the moment.
My friends are really good friends. Computing rocks. Oxford is such a lovely place.
Daniel Read more:Beans
Compsoc 0000-00-00 00:00:00 So I am teaching some C, some Object Oriented Techniques and some Objective-C to a bunch of computing students. I am kinda looking forward to it, because I really want to get into tutoring and research (and maybe eventually lecturing). This is for the computing society, because we have an ...
Ouch and Thunder 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last night, several times, I woke up with serious cramp in my left leg... ouchy! It still hurts now.
Listening to Kerrang Radio through digital terrestrial (called freeview in the uk). Its actually really good, its the morning talk.. funny.
Brookes CompSoc is going well... I am going to do some teaching ... Read more:Thunder
Life is… 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Life is but a dream...
drifting on a stream, a stream
(^^ "Ego Brain" by System Of A Down ^^)
Anyone want to fund my PhD? I should really stop asking that on my blog, I need to ask organisations.. doh
The BCS gets Semantic 0000-00-00 00:00:00 From time to time I go on to the British Computer Society (BCS) as I am a Professional Member of the Society. I haven't noticed it before, but they have "semanticised", they have RDF Descriptions for every article page.
When you go to a page on the BCS Website look for ... Read more:Semantic
Enriching the Linked Data Web using your blog! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 You can enrich the Linked Data Web through your own blog, all you have to do is add links to URIs on systems such as DBpedia and others on the Linked Data Graph. Of course it is quite handy if you have got a Semantic Blogging system such as:
The ODS-Weblog ...
Drupal 7 : To be entirely Semantic Web based 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Linking Open Data Community had some awesome news today, Drupal
version 7 will run on an entirely RDF base, will expose that RDF and be able to import RDF. This is awesome news, but it gets even better! Drupal 7 will be Linked Data enhanced too! .
This has been ... Read more:Semantic
Web 3G 0000-00-00 00:00:00 [Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn't get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted "Web 3G: The Third Generation of the ...
New Computer From This Summer 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I would like a new computer for my work and studies. I would like to build it rather than buy an all in one package, and I want to do so in a way so that it is optimised for my work and studies (naturally). So here are my requirements:
It ... Read more:Computer
, Summer
Blimey! An EARTHQUAKE! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I just felt an Earthquake here in Oxford... bizarre Documentally said it is centred in Northamptonshire. Approximate time-date: 00:59am 27th February 2008.
Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) Primer 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Thank you to Tom Morris for pointing out that a SKOS primer is in Working Draft.
The SKOS Primer is indeed available now in W3C Working Draft Format. There has also been an update to the SKOS Reference Document recently (also currently in W3C Working Draft Format).
I am pointing this out ... Read more:Simple
, Knowledge
, System
Tomorrow (27th February 2008) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Tomorrow (aka Wednesday 27th February
2008) I will be travelling to (and from) London for a very important Lunchtime Meeting. Which does mean that I won't be online for a big chunk of the day, call me if its urgent, email me if its not so urgent. I will be ...
DataPortability Logo Competition 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There is a competition for developing a logo for the DataPortability Project.
I've added my contribution:
You can win stuff! You can also see other peoples contributions on the flickr pool.
[tags]dataportability, data, portability, logo, competition[/tags]
DataPortability: the portability of data 0000-00-00 00:00:00 What DataPortability Is:
I just spent my Sunday evening (from about 6pm GMT until 9:30pm GMT) having a discussion about what data portability is exactly. Here is my first informal definition, which seems to fit the general idea that was being talked about.
First things first. DataPortability is a brand... its a ...
Reminder: OKCon 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Just a reminder to myself and everybody that interacts with me:
I'll be at OKCon, which is this Saturday (15th March 2008) in London. I will be attending on behalf of OpenLink Software, but I will not be presenting this time. I'll write up a public trip report when I get ... Read more:Reminder
A new feature on my blog 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you actually visit one of the pages on my blog that contains a single article, you'll see this nice addition.
It is a dashboard to load up various Semantic Web/RDF Browsers. Its all a bit experimental at the moment, but let me know what you think. It uses XHTML image ... Read more:feature
XTech 2008 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I found out some good news today:
I will be presenting at XTech 2008 (Dublin, Ireland), my presentation is titled "Linked Data Deployment" (tags: linkeddata, linkingopendata, deployment, webofdata, webofdocuments, dataportability, semanticweb) and will be at 14:45 on Wednesday 7th May 2008 in the Goldsmiths 2 room of the Radison SAS Royal ...
The difference between Christian Churches 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Introduction
Its quite rare that I manage to get the chance to do a more personal blog post, but I really wanted to clarify the following blog post to people who aren't Christian
.
There are many many different denominations (aka groups) of Christianity, and within those you get varying amounts of variety.
For ... Read more:difference
, Churches
OKCon, not happening for me today 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I've been trying to wake myself up, but its just not working. I only got 5 hours sleep because of just not being able to fall plus I am feeling really quite ill. So a 2+ hour journey on Coach and Tube isn't looking very appealing to me, therefore I ...
Getting yourself a URI in less than 5 minutes! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Introduction
By the end of this Quick Tutorial you will have:
Your own Personal URI, which will be valid for linking to/from any Linked Data service
Your own Data Space with Profiling, Social Networking, Blogging and Wiki-ing capability which is fully compliant with Semantic Web and DataPortability standards
Step 1
Go ... Read more:minutes
The media and the Semantic Web (short post) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I might consider doing a longer post later, but I wanted to highlight this to all my fellow SemWebbers.
The Semantic
Web (and/or "Data Web" and/or "Web 3.0") is seeing increasing coverage in the media
(with varying amounts of accuracy):
"Web 3.0 is all about Rank and Recommendation" by Jemima Kiss ... Read more:Semantic Web
The Semantic Web and Anglicanism 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "The Semantic
Web and Anglicanism" by Daniel Lewis
My version of "The World Wide Web and the 'Web of Life'" by Tim Berners-Lee
I've been considering lately how my beliefs and religious practices have interacted with my work on the Semantic Web and Linked Data... and so this is my version of ...
Palm Sunday 2008 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It is Palm Sunday
today (in most Christian Calendars), and my day started off with a quick blessing of the palms service at my Church (St Margaret's in Oxford), we then processed down Woodstock Road in the pouring rain singing hymns with the 2 choirs (of St Margarets and St ...
18th March 2008 (Micropost) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Good news: I'm going to visit a flat on Tuesday 25th March
2008 in Bristol as a potential place to live from this May. Fingers crossed its nice inside, because its in a really good location, and available from the time that I need it.
Not-too-good-news: My dosage of Ramipril has ...
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