A paper I wrote on ontologies (and, more directly, folksonomy) for a databases class I’m taking. Summarizes much of the thought that’s out there in the blogosphere. There’s a lot more I wanted to cover, but I was space-constrained. Here’s a preliminary version, full of rushed thoughts and unpolished wordsmithing. Will upload a cleaner, more […]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Oh Little Voices Of the Throats of Men
30-Nov-04An untitled, unpublished-’til-1996 favorite of mine from T.S. Eliot’s youth.
A little rough compared to his later work, but the earlier Eliot feels more approachable in his unpolishedness. Simple and eloquent.
whoops
22-Nov-04How to reset the admin password in wordpress. =p
Stabilization of Technology
08-Nov-04I can’t wait for the day when computer and display technology stabilizes the way that mechanical technology has. I can buy a quality wrist-watch, and 5, 20, 50 years from now, it will still be functional, aesthetic, and useful. The cell phone that I bought this year will be behind-the-times a year from now and […]
Time Enough For Research
06-Nov-04Just realized I’ve been spending alltogether too much time in my PhD research doing software development, and not enough time doing actual research. So, as of now I’m going to spend a self-enforced 15% of my time doing actual research-type stuff, keeping abreast of current literature in the field, etc (and hopefully blogging it here […]
trying to blog my research : Mary Wood from University of Manchester just gave a talk on “A Human-Computer Collaborative Approach to Computer Aided Assessment“. Abstract: The ABC (Assess by Computer) system has been developed and used in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester for formative and (principally) summative assessment at […]
And Bush Jr. has won. As a Christian I support the morality he says he stands for, but can I really trust the moral integrity of a man that attempted (and, most scarily, actually succeeded!) to pull the wool over his country’s eyes and link the 9/11 tragedy to his completely separate agenda for Iraq? […]
My Vote
02-Nov-04For technorati’s pseudo-election, I’m Unregistering to Vote. The linked site wasn’t made by me, but I commiserate with it regardless of if it was intended to be satire. feeling disillusioned… Quoted below: Dear Secretary of State; I am a registered voter of Kansas who would like to rectify that. First, let me say that I […]