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11:12 am
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Tech: RDF/OWL of ISFDB
My Google foo has failed here. Is anyone working on turning the ISFDB into an RDF/OWL ontology. Originally it was a proprietary database format, now it is available in traditional RDBMS format including MySQL.
I can obviously code it up myself but I'd like if possible to know that there is a community doing such things rather than me doing it by myself.
Tags: rdf, tech
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10:21 am
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Tech: Indexing and Searching Apache Solr
Do I know anyone who is familiar with Apache Solr ?
(And to a lesser extent anyone familiar with Apache Lucene?)
I'm trying to figure out what Solr does so that I can decide whether it is the right tool to achieve what I want instead of rolling my own. I suspect that I will probably need to use it to create a prototype - but that might be a LOT of work...
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11:05 am
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Games
This is a test of sorts to see what posting is like on my phone. Has anyone seen the doom board game and played it? I saw it yesterday for 20 quid but decided no.
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09:52 am
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Food: Restaurant Deals
Note for myself... Current Money off vouchers for restaurant deals....
(hint hint)
Tags: food, money
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10:05 am
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Tech: Hardware: Steptoe and Sons
I sometimes think of myself as a ( rag and bone man of the technology world )
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10:16 pm
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Tech: Old Server
So I dont think I will be buying another compute server for a while. I now have 14 cores easily available to me - plus another five or six in lower spec single core machines...
( So what happened to the old machine I was talking about... )
Current Mood: accomplished
Tags: hardware, tech
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09:56 am
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Tech: New Server
I am considering buying another quad core powerhouse ( as I am putting together some servers [for a compute farm] )
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05:02 pm
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Tech: Home DNS
So who has a DNS server at home, and what kit do you use? I'd like to use my ADSL Router, but it doesnt have that technology AFAICS.
I tried setting up my home network as something like "machines.home.owal.co.uk" but this was a bit of a pain because I dont have any machines in the house which are on *all* the time. My main desktop machine is on most of the time now because it records digital tv and radio. I dont really want it to be the DNS server as well.
I suppose I've answered my own question. That machine is on almost all of the time so it should be the DNS server. Damn.
I have the O'Reilly DNS book on a CD somewhere...I wonder if I can get it to do reverse DNS lookups :-(
PS My main machine is Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 in case anyone wants to offer advice.
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09:40 am
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London Holidays
So I am having some time off next month, and I will mostly be in London, Cambridge, and wherever I can be persuaded to go.
What should I visit or see in the next month or so?
I will almost certainly visit
- British Museum
- National Gallery
- Tate Modern
- Tate Britain (for the first time)
- Camden Market
- Walthamstow Farmers Market (on Sundays)
plus the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
If I can keep up the enthusiasm I will be going to
- Hyde Park for roller blading lessons
Current Mood:  hopeful
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05:27 pm
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GoodReads.com
Do I know anyone who uses http://GoodReads.com ?
http://mashable.com/2007/01/30/goodreads/
I'm wondering how good it is, and whether it
a) works as a social network
b) has good links to other systems like LibraryThing, Facebook, and so on.
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11:15 pm
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Texas Hold'em
The Google-Fu is weak with this one....
So can someone please point me to the rules of scoring Texas Hold'Em poker hands where two players share the same hand - eg two players get a flush, or two players get a straight. My phone has a crappy poker game on it and I think it has been scoring a lot of hands wrong.
I know that it scores All-In hands wrong (at least according to wikipedia). It assumes you can win the whole pot if you go all-in no matter how much everyone else bets above you.
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01:10 pm
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Web Logging
Houses built on sand ...
If you're looking for someone to blame in the collapse of the global economy, one popular punching bag is the credit ratings agencies. Firms like Moody's, Fitch and Standard and Poor's are supposed to let investors know whether bonds are particularly risky or relatively safe.
that would be a bouncy castle ...
A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator,
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10:08 pm
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SourceForge
Does anyone know if SourceForge is down? It looks to me like they have a routing error....
http://sourceforge.net/
[EDIT: Hmmm. Back now. ]
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10:31 pm
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Island Records - in the stream of my consciousness
I've been watching a program on the BBC about Island Records and I am loving it. "I bought that when I was a kid... and that", "Oh look Brian Eno had hair when he was in Roxy Music", "Gosh, I didnt realise that Island Records had been going that long when they signed the Wailers and Bob Marley". Oh my GOD Cat Stevens is English? Why did I think anything else? He always managed to sing convincingly in Greek" (Wikipedia tells me he is a British Greek Cypriot which makes his conversion to Islam more interesting to me). Grace Jones - Oh My Goddess! "Slave to the Rhythm" was one of my favourite albums when I was at school.
Jethro Tull... of course. Oh, so THAT is Fairport Convention - Trevor Horn was The Buggles? Why didnt I know that? I have to investigate ZTT and his work with Paul Morley. I think WIkipedia...Hmmm, It isnt really clear whether ZTT was a label which was part of Island, or just financed by it. Oh Brian is on the telly again. pout pout.
Apparently the head of Island records didnt want Brian Eno to produce U2. Brian had just come in with an idea for an album called something like "Bird list". It went tweet tweet Albatross tweet tweet tweet Thrush.
Anna has just asked me "WHo are these guys?" That is ROXY MUSIC. That is Brian eNO at the back. The one in the silvery top.
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10:29 am
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Self Harm on the TV
So last night I saw A_World_of_Pain:Meera_Syal_on_SelfHarm/. It was worth watching (and I have provided a link to iPlayer so most of you can see it for the next few days.
Meera skirts around the mental health aspects of self harm. It is largely treated as a coping strategy and the people Meera talk to largely dont see that as a mental health problem. A great many mental health problems are coping strategies. The problem comes in deciding whether the coping strategy is unhelpful/harmful to the person using it, and that really ought to be up to the individual concerned.
[EDIT: cut a bit of text which didnt say what I meant]
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12:47 pm
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German GrandPrix
Do I know anyone going to the German Grand Prix (12th July!)? Do you know anyone going? I'm flying a few days afterwards and was thinking of extending my stay to include it.
I wonder if my mate Norman (winolj) still has any contacts in Heidelberg. Nürburgring, not Hockenheim
Maybe I should rent a stupidly fast car to drive around the Autobahns :-) Pah. It looks closer than Glasgow!
Tags: germany, grand prix
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07:50 am
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Other uses for books
I've been trying to build a chair like this for ages. Now that someone else has done it I dont have to.
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02:29 pm
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Happy Birthday Mr Flay
Big happy birthday greetings go to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mr_flay who I hope to see tonight at Madame JoJo's. However no promises as bits of me seem to be not working. Today it is is my right calf. For three days now it has been almost solid - possibly in mild spasm. Yuck.
And of course much happiness to stuartl who shares with me several important likes and hobbies, such as Lego, cars, computers, and women in leather on bikes.
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12:46 pm
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You Tube
So how do *you* find stuff on YouTube? I try searching for interesting stuff but it is quite hard because of the low singal to noise ratio. When interested in particular specific topics I can find stuff if I search for particular participants. Of course I may also look if someone directs me to something in particular...
But...
Am I missing something but is YouTube terribly hard to browse?
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03:02 pm
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Technology: Self Congratulations
I so rule at Technology. My kettle broke recently - the plastic hinge for the lid snapped. So I decided to fix Anna's fancy kettle with a water filter built in.
I changed the fuse, opened up the base, pressed the wires back onto their connectors and magically it worked.
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