Archive for May, 2006

Wednesday 31st May 2006

May 31st, 2006 (2006-05-31T17:30:36-0700) 4 Comments

Today I finished university. The terror of the rest of my life beckons, but for now I’m just going to play my music really loud.

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Straw Poll: Download Sizes

May 24th, 2006 (2006-05-24T22:39:02-0700) 10 Comments

You’re downloading an application from the net, lets say an application that you were curious about but might not turn out to be of much use to you. What’s the biggest download size you’d accept? What size of download would make you think ‘I can’t be bothered’?

Keep that figure and mind and now consider whether [...]

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The night before my Semantic Web exam

May 23rd, 2006 (2006-05-23T21:38:05-0700)

After a solid week of revision (which is a really big achievement for me… just before my penultimate exam ever) I’ve just realised that most of the RDF, RDFS and OWL references I’ve noted lately have been written in pseudo-XPath.

Sometimes even my own geek achievements amaze me.

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You know it’s exam time when…

May 20th, 2006 (2006-05-20T21:41:47-0700) 5 Comments

It’s Saturday night.
I’m not drunk.
I’m reading the XHTML DTD.

Something is wrong with this world.

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Help? Windows Freezing on Startup

May 20th, 2006 (2006-05-20T12:52:32-0700) 7 Comments

Little bit of a lazy-web plea this.

My Windows install has a problem whereby if I log in too quickly, most of my background applications like Konfabulator don’t load properly and Windows refuses to launch any applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes or Windows Explorer).

Invoking a shut down causes everything to suddenly spring into life (and then immediately [...]

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