at our office, we just discovered the meaning of life.
The real truth is that you are sourrounded by idiots.
The meaning of life is to live with this truth.
2nd try
The fact is that you are sourrounded by idiots.
The goal is to life with it.
bluelogger and photo annotation
crschmidt hinted me back to my old dreams. tagging photos, appointments and other events with gps location.
The weapon of choice seems to be bluelogger, a gps receiver that talks through bluetooth.
I have commercial experience with these kind of stuff from my previous portacon project. So handling emea and maps and stuff is bad but possible 🙂
what came to my mind is a way to match timelines, from icals to your photos to your “recently heard itunes song” to the GPS path walked.
At impact business computing we had a patent pending algorithm to track breaks in a gps trail, tp detect stops. Perhaps this might be useful again 🙂
so lets see what crschmidt does next…
fucking asshole ocean
Johannes Grenzfuthner and Evelyn postet something about the tsunami. Actually, he showed me the picture and then said he blogged it.
btw: read this blog.
gresko.at
A friend of mine has a nice website:
www.gresko.at
java collection
a friend in vienna told me of a nice collection of java examples, may be useful sometimes.
g.o.r.a.
Been a while since this happened, but has to be bloggged. Ingrid and I went to the movies and watched g.o.r.a. at the alternative cinema “union kino” in Kaiserslautern.
G.O.R.A. was hilarious. A turkish movie, telling the story of a carpet dealer abducted by aliens from the planet gora. Great acting, many many many dialogs (there is talking all the time actually), a story without surprises but fine jokes, and an audience good mixed with germans and turkish people. So we had laughter and chatting in the audience. The movie was shown in turkish original with german subtitles. The usual, hollywood-standard computer animations of spaceships are mixed in this movie with “wizard of Oz”-styled setups like a “forest of knoblauchwurst-growing trees”.
Wizard of oz came to my mind more than once when watching gora. A person abducted to a fantasy place, meeting friends there, etc.
Enough: If you have the chance of watching this, DO IT! Forget hollywood, the turks are coming.
telephone number to word
a tool i have been searching for a long time:
http://www.dialabc.com/words/search
enter a telephone numer, output a set of words, including tricks with pronouncing numbers and GREAT visualisation of the result.
The visualisation of the results inself is a must for every tool maker to see.
switch!
I switched.
Yesterday Ingrid went to get our new baby, a brand new iBook G4. We called it “eden” and I am moving many things on it. Apple is great, I waited to have one for years. I am really happy now. This is it, and I instantous fell in deep admiration to Apple.
The real nice thing is, Eclipse runs slow but smooth and I can hack www.gnowsis.org with the thing. Simple thing, install eclipse, checkout gnowsis from cvs, everything works. cool, on Linux this was hell of a thing to do. ( the java install alone, argh).
On the screen you see part of our “in development” RDF-Gui builder tools. I am an old Delphi hacker, so I need Gui tools simple as delphi to work with RDF. We are starting with a very low tech and neat framework. On the “screenshot” above you see the framework running. As usually, I edit the foaf.rdfs 🙂
to all who never believed it, I did not believe it, too. And to those who do not believe, it is not a complete switch, my infrastructure is now:
- Apple iBook G4 “Eden”
- Work Notebook Acer Travelmate WinXp
- Linux Server “Franse.leobard.net”
- Home Notebook HP “Bundeslade”
julie and crschmidt…
when humans and chatbots join, things like julie’s web interface may be the result.
first eaon pointed me to it, now crschmidt himself and it is great:
http://crschmidt.net/semweb/rdfbot/online_users.cgi?channel=foaf&image=1
See the pictures of people in a chat room.
Based on foaf files, foaf:nick and foaf:img and the distributed web of foaf files
read more in crschmidt’s blog
here’s an excerpt:
lorebot, an IRC based bot who collects information from IRC services on who is online in different channels. Once this information is collected, it displays a “who’s online” information page, with links to further information provided by julie, a Redland bot who collects data from FOAF files. The lorebot page has pretty much all the documentation you’d need: if you’re interested in seeing how it works, you can stop by irc.freenode.net, #swig for a demonstration. For a version of what kind of data this spits out, see the: #swig online_users page.
rdf browser peek overview
the deperate need for a “I need a rdf browser, quick!” made me to install isavic, brownsauce and ifered and ideagraph in 30 minuntes and try them out on a big SKOS file. libby was on #swig and pointed me to some apps.
results:
brownsauce
is running good, but is not end-user friendly. It should put out a message in system.out saying “now open your browser to localhost:8080/brownsauce” and then perfect.
it is a rdf browser that uses a small web server (looks like jetty to me) and visualises rdf. great click-feel. fast.
isaviz
a graphical rdf tool. editing, …
requires some apis to install, but no big deal.
was doomed by my skos file, the visualisation was just a big blob of nodes. took 30sec to do it. The result was not really browsable
infered
graphical rdf editor from intellidimension.com. quite ok, but no real rdf browsing. only basic editing, no end user thing. but the right direction, easy installable.
rdfgravity
quite cool tool. can propose its usage. download it. uses aqua skin, like we do in gnowsis installer. quite cool look and feel. better than any of the above.
loading my skos, it completely draw pandemonia:
hm, so perhaps it is true what i said about the general rdf browser is not possible.
cheers Leo
btw:
logged on swig