Monthly Archives: August 2006

interesting

For those of us who travel through airport security on a regular basis, this article makes realistic reading. Well worth reading in full. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/09/INGIVJPJR91.DTL Ryanair proved today how they view security by filing their law suit against the UK government … Continue reading

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fringe pictures

I was in Edinburgh city centre again yesterday. I’ve been through a few times in recent weeks and have always thought I should try and get some pictures. Unfortunately due to the current hand baggage restrictions bringing my DSLR with … Continue reading

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rdfs validation

Does anyone know of a site that allows for online validation of RDF files vs RDFS files? A quick web search didn’t find anything and an email to Sam has so far produced no response Of course this also begs … Continue reading

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ASF Calendar

A while back I spent some time and wrote some scripts and XSL that handle RDF calendars. The idea is the same as the other RDF stuff I’ve been doing – allow people to maintain their own data and have … Continue reading

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Gatwick

The new restrictions on hand bagage have been in effect for over a week now, but security is still not coping! As Thom said last week in his blog, what a target for a suicide bomber!

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regex support for apr-util

I’ve done some work over the last few days towards adding support for libpcre to apr-util. The response from the apr community has been mixed, but mostly negative, so Ive widthdrawn the patch from the dev list. Rather than just … Continue reading

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rdf stores

mod_sparql took another step forward when I added the ability to configure stores from URI’s. It’s not ideal, but essentially you can now specify the URI’s that should be used to create the data store used for queries within a … Continue reading

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Fringe Sunday

The Meadows, Edinburgh. 25% of people were trying to give you leaflets for shows and the other 75% were trying to avoid accumulating them!

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mod_sparql & posts

After mads prodded me into action I’ve added POST handling to mod_sparql. One more feature down, several to go! The code has been committed so the repository is up to date.

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mod_sparql

I’ve been working on mod_sparql for a while now and thansk to a small patch from Dave Beckett for his redland libraries it now works as expected for GET style queries. I still need to get POST queries working and … Continue reading

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what a difference 24 hours makes

The crowd gripped their clear plastic bags containing the few posessions they were being allowed to carry. Slowly shuffling forward there was little conversation, but what there was terse and hushed which befitted the general mood of the crowd. From … Continue reading

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it just keeps growing

For some reason, maybe the alignment of the planets?, I’ve been in an incredibly generous mood recently and have agreed to do lots of things for lots of people! My ToDo list is getting a bit out of control at … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Fringe

At the Assembly Hall to see Tango Fire.

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edinburgh fringe

For many years I’ve wanted to go to the fringe. Reading the reviews it always sounds as if it would be fun – and it is! Having a base in Edinburgh this year means that I finally managed to attend … Continue reading

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