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FOAF and SIOC
January 16th, 2008Just 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 […]
American Food Requests For Australia
December 4th, 2007Having just returned from the U.S., there are two things I am going to miss: Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and Dunkin Donuts. I tried out 16 flavours of Ben and Jerry’s, with my favourite being Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. As for Dunkin Donuts, I consumed a lot of Vanilla Chai beverages and Boston Cream […]
Move Over GI Joe, It’s Johann Sebastian Bach
November 23rd, 2007Recently made an unusual acquisition at a music store in Rockville, Connecticut. An ‘action figure’ of the baroque German composer and organist Johann Bach. This is not the first time I have come across a music-related action figure. Of course, the band’s merchandise machine has ensured that figurines of the members of KISS can be […]
Coke and Mentos
September 28th, 2007This video shows what happens when you mix Coca-Cola with Mentos, by now an often performed trick. To read more about it, including why it happens, go here. I tried it back in Australia but the reaction was very small. Currently in the U.S., so I thought I would try it out here, as this […]
Sustainability on The Web
August 16th, 2007Some cool sites associated with the environment and sustainability:
Sustainable Melbourne - http://www.sustainablemelbourne.com
Sustainable Cities Network - http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com
Victorian Eco Innovation Lab - http://www.ecoinnovationlab.com
Life On Mars
July 28th, 2007In general I prefer British television shows to American television, and one recent British television drama series that I found absolutely outstanding was ‘Life on Mars’. A two-part series, the second and final series ended on 10 April 2007 in the U.K. I highly recommend to anyone who reads this post to try and watch […]
The Simpsons Movie
July 28th, 2007Have just come back from watching The Simpsons Movie. Being a fairly hardcore fan of the show, this movie is required viewing. The movie was excellent and further consolidates the preeminent position this show holds. The movie starts of with an abundance of great moments and then moves into a good storyline filled with […]
Wordpress Plugin: Wikipedia Search Widget
June 11th, 2007Overview
With this Wordpress plugin, you can add a widget that displays a search form to search Wikipedia.
New Bertrand Russell Wiki
May 31st, 2007Have recently been working on setting up a wiki covering topics related to the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. RussellWiki, as it is aptly named, is now up and running, under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell research group at McMaster University. Go check it out at http://russell.mcmaster.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
More Loud Planes, This Time Russian
May 15th, 2007A few weeks back I posted an entry about the loudest aircraft of all time. The discussion centered on U.S. and British planes, though I briefly alluded to their Russian counterparts. As a sort of continuation of that post, I just thought I would post some stuff I have come across on Russian military planes. […]
