Tonight we tagged a svn “invitational beta” branch for next weeks Freemix launch at 2009 SemTech. This is a huge accomplishment by an absolutely extraordinary team.

While there is still a lot of work to do (this is only the beginning ), this marks an important milestone toward making it easier for people, communities and organizations to reuse, view, and share relevant information.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your data had friends, too?

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

And while i’m not sure how yet to pronounce it, its definitely one of the most beautiful words I think I’ve ever heard.

woohoo!

The RDF Model and Syntax Specification became a W3C Recommendation nine years ago today!

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Model and Syntax Specification
W3C Recommendation 22 February 1999
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/

Best wishes to all members of the original W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group and to all those who have built on top of the foundations we created.

Seems like only yesterday

While I only touched briefly on this work in my comment, David Wood has expanded on this in his blog and given additional context on the potential business applicability of this approach.

Perhaps the most interesting use of Active PURLs to enterprises might be the ability to provide standardized RDF metadata about SOA Web Services as well as relational databases. UDDI is so broken, we might as well fix it with existing SemWeb standards. That is not a new idea, but the application of Active PURLs to the problem is.

Applying the lessons and standards of the web back inside the enterprise makes sense for managing evolution, supporting collaboration and more effectively delivering products and services. More and more businesses are starting to realize the true benefit of being *in* the Web, not just on it.

HTML-WG Meeting
Monday, Oct 17, 1994, Chicago World Wide Web conference.

Attendees

Eric Sink            (Spyglass)
Stuart Weibel        (OCLC)
Eric Miller          (OCLC)
Yuri Rubinski        (SoftQuad)
TimBL                (W3O, CERN)
Tom Magliere         (NCSA)
Ron Daniel           (Los Alamos)
Dave Raggett         (HP, UK)
Roy Fielding         (UC Irvine)
Phillip Hallam-Baker (W3O, CERN)
Liam Quin            (SoftQuad)
Corp Reed            (Cold Spring Harbor Lab)
Mitra                (Mitra Internet Consulting)
Murray Maloney       (SCO)
Bill Perry           (Spry)
Terry Allen          (O'Reilly Associates)
Thomas Churchill     (EIT)
David Land           (Verity)
Jeff Sutor           (UCLA)
Jon Bosak            (Novell)
Chris Wilson         (Spry)
John Punin           (RPI)
Dave Hollander       (HP)
Jim Seidman          (Spyglass)
Larry Jackson        (NCSA)

- My son’s response to this particular page was simply: “Hey! Two Erics!” (here is the other one and he’s not a legend)

Thanks in advance to anyone providing whatever they can.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and Bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and For the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, The fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts Are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes They weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

– tecumseh

After a minor gauntlet of cleaning, rebuilding, head-scratching and more rebuilding, we finally have a working 1948 Martin motor. The rewind spring could use some works, along with knobs, a paint job, etc. but overall she’s up, running and purring like a kitten (albeit an angry one).

Special thanks to the folks over at the AOMCI who fielded a few novice questions; these folks are just a fountain of knowledge when dealing with old outboards. I don’t know what her top speed is, but she moves ‘high treason’ much faster than I expected.

My son and I couldn’t be happier