Tom Morris: 2007-04-13

2007.04.13

Beagle++ is a semantic extension to the Beagle search tool in GNOME. I have inspected some of the outputted source, and I'm not an instant convert, but it's a pretty cool idea. A GetSemantic project I'm working on to RDFize BibTeX will need to work a little bit harder to include this in our work. (Thanks to bigjb on #GetSemantic) 2007-04-13T12:18:35Z

Otu Ekanem has a write-up of last night's London XSL meetup. 2007-04-12T23:53:47Z

Taking MySpace to a galaxy far, far away 2007-04-13T13:47:07Z

So the US government and Vint Cerf want to take the Internet in to space. Gee whiz. What a tremendous waste of money.

Why, exactly, do we need an inter-planetary Internet again? I'm guessing that there are a whole load of Jupiterians out there who want to put their camera phone videos up on YouTube.

The idea that this is a military project is pretty ridiculous too. You know what would help the "boys and girls" (read: hired killers) in Iraq would be little things like body armour, not TCP/IP powered satellites.

The actual use case of "Internet in space" has not been properly fleshed out. I'm kidding about the YouTube thing (as you may have gathered), but what is the point of this?

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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