Archive for August, 2007

linking open data

Monday, August 27th, 2007


If it isn’t already, put the Linking Open Data project on your radar. It’s a grassroots effort to make large data sets available on the web. These aren’t just tarballs sitting in an FTP directory either–they’re URL addressable information resources available in machine readable format. A few weeks ago Joshua Tauberer announced the availability of the US Census as close to 1 billion triples. If you like data and the web the discussion list is a wonderful place to watch these data sets getting released and linked together.

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rockin’ the plastic

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

High 5, more dead than alive
Rockin’ the plastic like a man from a casket

Yeah, the blog is back after getting routed by the LinuXploit Crew. The whole episode was really rewarding actually. I learned what projects I work on that need to be hosted elsewhere at more stable locations–that are likely to outlive my pathetic musings. I (re)learned how important good friends are (ksclarke, dchud, wtd, jaf, gabe, rsinger) in a pinch. And I watched in awe as the Wordpress 2.2 upgrade actually worked on my pathologically old instance (which I suspect to have been the front door). Oh, and it was a good excuse to ditch gentoo for ubuntu.

Spring cleaning came a bit late this year I guess. Thanks LinuXploit Crew!

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