Hasty Note
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At the Semantic Technology Conference
Many more of my questions about semantic technologies and their applications have been answered in the last couple of days. There were a couple of outstanding sessions today, but even more helpful were the informal conversations taking place all around the conference area. I think I’ll probably have to make a distinction between long-term interoperability modeling goals and short-term projects that address specific needs. I’ve got a lot more resources to add to my toolbox now, and a better understanding…
Catching up: or, Waking through
This is going to be one of those stream-of-consciousness posts. I’m not sure what to write, so I’m just going to start writing. There is something that wants to come out, and I’m not sure what it is, so let’s see… I spent much of the day yesterday going up and down the front hill with a weed-whacker, but everything looks great now. The roses are blooming, and the vinca is putting out flowers too. The back deck is covered…
Donate for Watchtower Blood Lawsuit
I’ve made a donation myself and I hope that you can send any amount via PayPal or postal service. It’s a reasonable fund-raising goal and I think it is very important to support this case. One man against the whole legal apparatus of the Watchtower Society is facing a hard road but there is a chance here for some amount of accountability. Here is the letter from Barbara Anderson: Dear Friends, For those unfamiliar with Lawrence Hughes, he’s a 55-year-old…
My Dinner with John and Rainier
Oh! What a wonderful night it was! Rainier is in town. He’s giving at paper at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference this afternoon, but last night he was free for dinner. Through the rain and lightning and terrible traffic, John and I drove into the center of Atlanta to meet him. I had made reservations at Nikolai’s Roof! Oh boy, oh boy! So, some background. Rainier and I were fellow graduate students in the ILA at Emory, and…
Dear Future Me Received
I finally got the email I wrote to myself in April of 2005. Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios from DearFutureMe.org included my email in their published collection Dear Future Me: Hopes, Fears, Secrets, Resolutions (pp.152-153), which was pretty fun (yes, they did ask my permission first). I’ve edited out the amount of my student loan and the number of years it took me to complete the Ph.D. here, but here is the rest: The following is an e-mail from the…