Friday, December 12, 2003

So...What have I been doing so far with my unemployment?

A couple things.

1) Most importantly, I've been applying to as many jobs as I can. I got a kind of crappy severance(I think), but if I can find a job before it runs out, that's money for a new road bike or a trip or a donation to St. John's.
2) Going to as many shows as I can. This week, I've been to three shows-all of them awesome.
3) Reading. I got a new translation of Don Quixote. It'll take me a while to read but it's very good.

later.

Friday, December 05, 2003

NaNoWriMo.org : Viewing profile


A buddy of mine finished a 50000 word novel in a month. Read his steaming pile of crap!
Dixieland Auroras


This is a nice little piece on auroras.

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Well, I got laid off today.

Do any of you people out there need any help?
Theater Review | 'Lysistrata': The Greeks Had Many Words for Sex, and Here They Are


This was one of my favorite Greek comedies when I was in college-it looks like it's been reinterpreted.....Too bad I'm not in NY.

Tuesday, December 02, 2003

BBC NEWS | Europe | Lonely lives of Ukraine's HIV children

Fucking A.
Take a look at this-I copied it from a blog on salon.com-very worthwhile.

Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment: "The Web site for Harpers has an unusual new design that builds on its extensive back catalog of magazine content in semantic-Web-ish ways. It's not a blog, exactly. Paul Ford, of Ftrain.com, who designed it, explains the ideas behind it here. He also suggests that the work that went into the site may well make its way into a new 'open-sourced content management system based on RDF storage.' This is interesting because, so far, though RDF has generated all sorts of interesting theory, real-world applications remain not very easy to explain, or even find. Anyway, this sort of site-overhaul is always tough, even when it's not as technically ambitious as what Harpers has done, so congratulations to all."
Harper's Index for January 2003 (Harpers.org): "Chances that a Rwandan woman raped during the 1994 genocide is now HIV-positive: 2 in 3 [Association of Widows of the Genocide (Rwanda)][Top]"


Harper's Index for August 1999 (Harpers.org): "Number of troops that could have prevented Rwanda's 1994 genocide, according to the head of U.N. forces there then: 5,000 [National Defense Headquarters (Ottawa, Canada)][Top]"


August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com)


This is one guy's idea on how the web will become more interconnected.....via symantec searches. He also redid the Harper Magazine web site. www.harpers.org