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Semantic Email

As I am giving out many Diploma Thesis Ideas for people who want to write their Master at Kaiserslautern (maybe you? write me…) I have to stick my nose into Semantic Email. The Semantic Email project is already running, but we have to do better.

So I googled some interesting links about the topic I want to share:

basically it means: the washington guys did their homework very good.

So if you, dear reader, want to do a master’s thesis about it, be my guest.

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meaning of life

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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

eden_ibook

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”