Archive for January, 2008

Birdworld

January 22nd, 2008

I recently went with a friend to Birdworld, to fulfill a long-running jocular agreement between the two of us that we needed to go.
Birdworld, located outside the town of Beveridge just north of Melbourne, is a fun place for the whole family. There is a Hedge Maze with a viewing tower, an animal nursery containing […]

horrible moments in the history of philosophy

January 18th, 2008

time for an infrequent post categorised under Philosophy. Here is a link to a nicely written blog post about horrible moments in the history of philosophy http://drjon.typepad.com/jon_cogburns_blog/2007/11/horrible-moment.html. The part on Turing served as a reminder of the great man’s belatedly publicized accomplishments and subsequent shabby treatment by the British government.

FOAF and SIOC

January 16th, 2008

Just wanted to blog about the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) projects, as I recently installed Wordpress plugins for these two Semantic Web initiatives.
FOAF (an acronym of Friend of a Friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone […]