Author: leobard

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macosx: the lost menu icons

I am sitting in front of my beloved 12″ iBook, called “Eden”.
iBook

I love it so much that I installed and use a billion of productiveness and communication tools, like plazes, iTunes, bluetooth, wireless, VPN, Adium, … and … hm … weren’t there more? Where are those icons?

Yes, macOsX has a design flaw: when you have many apps running and they place icons in the icon-bar to the upper right – the icons get lost. Applications like safari have such a big menu that the icons are all hidden, bad appl.

Thanks to iBlogging.de story on this problem which uses a good-googleable language, I was able to find a nice solution: the application “no menu bar”. This app has only one goal: nothing. So that I can refind all those icons I didn’t see for months, ah, there is plazes…. finally gets those precious pixel spaces on my screen it deserves.

nomenubar

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Talk on Semantic Desktop at ZGDV, 19.10.2006

There is a congres on “Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien” in Darmstadt at ZGDV on 19th October 2006.

There are many interesting people from Germany giving talks there, Benjamin Novack from the hacker side, Georg Lausen, Andreas Kupfer, Michael Stollberg from Innsbruck, Torsten Priebe from Capgemini Austria, Holger Rath from Empolis, Achim Steinacker from intelligent views, and Leo Sauermann from myself.

If you are a student of university, reduced conference fee for academics is 120€/290€.

semwebzgdv

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digitalcouch 8 am Montag!

link zur digitalcouch

Am 7. August 2006 ist es wieder soweit. Nachdem wir uns zur WM ausgepowert und den Sommer durchgeschwitzt haben, geht es voller Enthusiasmus und neuer Energie wieder zur Sache: The Great Escape 8.

Wir haben neue Ideen, so freut euch auf:

iTrip-Disco am 19. August – Motoren schon mal warm laufen lassen. Alle Informationen gibts bei The Great Escape.
Die Herbst 100 Tage Bar – und wir sind dabei. Werdet Teil und öffnet die Herzen.
Was war was wird? WM – vorher, nachher. KL – vorher, nachher.
Affen im ZackZack – ein Hoch auf die Giulietta Bar!

Also los Leute: Testosteronpflaster aufgeklebt und ab in die Glocke zum Klingelbimmeln.

Haltet es nicht geheim!

The Great Escape 8
Montag, 7. August 2006
20.00 Uhr im Glockencafe

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clothes for burning man

Last weekend Ingrid and I have gone on a shopping tour to Strasbourg, getting some clothes for ourselves, and especially for Burningman.

The goal was a nice suite for mr Luther Blisset, chair of the INCONSISDENT 2006 conference, and a Bikini for the Lady, which will serve as a basis for flowers that will be sewed on there.

shopping loot from strasbourg

Clickr on the flickr picr and watch the notes there by pushing your mouse across the pic. We have to buy these clothes for Luther Blisset, who will chair the INCONSISDENT, hope this somehow works.

And yes, I wrote some more notes on the wikitravel page of Strasbourg, for the next shopper after us.

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trying out eclipse RCP and RDF

We created a sample Eclipse RCP application that shows how to use sesame and a bit of gnowsis inside SWT and eclipse. We plan to see if we can benefit from Eclipse RCP in Nepomuk. more about this hack here on the gnowsis site.

rcp-pimo

This is what we did:
We started at 17:30 by downloading Eclipse 3.2 and slavishly following the Hello World Tutorial here.

ok, all worked, the empty “hello World” deployment thingy with .exe file and so on weights 7MB. wuff but ok.

Then Leo decided to rename the packages from “semanticdesktop” to “com.example.semanticdesktop” and that was the last time we saw our hello world. shoots, restart.

After Benny got the control, he changed the plugins first window from title “Hello World” to “Semantic Desktop”.

Hours later….

ok, we try now the “mail demo” and extend it with a RDF view showing hte pimo tree. First problem: we don’t want to import openrdf directly but instead import it as OSGI bundle (woa, cool). Hm, the best approach seems the wizard “plugin from existing jar archives”. that generates useful output.

Result at 19:30: we managed to include Sesame and gnowsis as Eclipse OSGI bundles and were able to load the PIMO ontology language from a local file and display it in a tree. Its a lot of work but it looks cool. So, Beer now.

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strasbourg, we are coming

tomorrow Ingrid and I am going to Strasbourg, shopping for burning man. Strasbourg.

So these are the possibilities, recently googled:

  • There is a marché aux Puces (flea market) on rue de Vieil-Hopital on Wednesday and Saturdays.link
  • The Place des Halles, 24 place des Halles, is the main commercial center (open Mon-Fri 0900-2000 and Sat 0900-1900 2000!), with approximately 120 shops, as well as 10 restaurants and bars. The two main department stores, open daily 1000–1900, are both situated near place Kléber – Galeries Lafayettes, rue du 22 Novembre, and Printemps, 1-5 rue de la Haute Montée. FNAC, place Kléber, is also worth a visit for all things electronic and electrical.
    Designer shops can be found along rue des Orfèvres (Chanel and Yves Saint-Laurent) and rue de la Mésange (Cartier, Gucci and Hermès), with chic outlets along rue des Hallebardes and the up-and-coming rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons (Kenzo, Cerruti and Georges Rech), fast becoming lined with designer names. On the other end of the fashion scale, visitors can buy second-hand clothes, priced according to their weight, from Kilo Shop, 6 rue de la Lanterne, while traditional Alsatian costumes are for sale or hire at Maison du Costume Alsacien, 11b quai de Turckheim.
    There is an all-day food market at place Broglie on Wednesday and Friday and a flea market at place de la Grande Boucherie and rue du Vieil Hôpital on Wednesday and Saturday.linksame text, different site
  • bruno saint hilaire, rue gutemberg 8. hm, designer stuff, expensive
  • Im ganzen Altstadtgebiet ….finden sich aber auch private, individuelle Geschäfte, die Mode, Kunsthandwerk, Antiquitäten, Schmuck und Acessoires, Delikatessen, Bücher usw. anbieten. Vor allem in der Gegend um die Rue des Juifs und auf dem rechten Ufer der Ill finden sich Angebote für ein eher urbanes Publikum.
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Cypher: a product that translates language to RDF

cypher by monrai


The Cypher™ alpha release is a program which generates the .rdf (RDF graph) and .serql (SeRQL query) representation of a natural language input. With robust definition languages, Cypher’s grammar and lexicon can quickly and easily be extended to process highly complex sentences and phrases of any natural language, and can cover any vocabulary. Equipped with Cypher, programmers can now begin building next generation semantic web applications that harness what is already the most widely used tool known to man – natural language.

So, a company is going on the market! Horray. Best wishes to them, and I sure want to check if that baby can help gnowsis.