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twoday now for tu wien university

The Technical University of Vienna has a blogging service for its students.

http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/

it was done by http://www.knallgrau.at the company that also hosts the weblog that you are reading here.

according to the press release:
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/pr/pa/pa_04_40.shtml

they plan to enable 15000 students und 2500 Scientific People to start blogging. The project should be accompanied by research initiatives. They are inspired by other universities that also allow blogging.

looks like a good idea to me to generate Semantic Web content.

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Military Speak :-)

Ingrid und ich gehen so durch meine NeueHeimat

Dabei muss man wissen, dass in Kaiserslautern die US Luftwaffenbasis Rammstein ganz nah ist. Was insofern ok ist, da die schon seit dem Krieg da sind und einiges hier investieren und Arbeitsplätze schaffen usw… (ok, man könnte hier viel negatives schreiben über Luftwaffenbasen, aber das kann ja jeder).

Lassen wir eher die Fakten sprechen. In einem Viertel, in dem viele Amerikaner leben (was man an den Chryslers in den Vorgärten sieht), finden Ingrid und ich einen Glas-Container.

Einwurf nur für Grünglas. Kein Porzellan, Steingut oder Keramik einwerfen. For American Soldiers: "For Green Glass Only" - by order of the commander

Da stehen zwei Aufschriften, was mensch denn da nun reinwerfen solle, kurz gesagt: Grünglas, ihr affen!.

Auf deutsch steht da:
“Einwurf nur für Grünglas. Kein Porzellan, Steingut oder Keramik einwerfen.”

Auf English:
“For Green Glass Only – by order of the commander”

was der deutsche von natur aus versteht, muss man dem gast aus den USA militärisch befehlen 🙂
geil!

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cars parking in front of my office

hm, some ill-inspired freak who has probably seen dubster.com/cars parked his or her red sports car in front of my office door.

danm, we are hacking till 23:59 and then this?!

carrace

carracer

it was not easy to climb over this thing. don’t know how they did it anyhow, but those who code all day don’t care…

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updated my foaf file

I made many changes to gnowsis in this prerelease phase. Today i focussed on updating my foaf file. To do it right, I made some hacks:

* Written a Jena Model accessed another Jena Model through XML/RPC. Great to have models remote with a fingersnip.

* Written a ExoBot, that takes some Jena commands (liststatements, query, etc) and executes the commands to build a new model. Fine to do recursive queries and sub-queries.

* exo-foaf, my foaf file creator now talks to the gnowsis server through XML/RPC.

Result is a foaf file that finally looks like all the other foaf files out there.

http://www.gnowsis.com/leo/foaf.xml

17 work days left unti release…