Dave Beckett - Journalblog
RDF and free software hacking

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-11-26

Proceedings of 1st Int. Workshop on Practical and Scalable Semantic Systems (PSSS1) held at ISWC 2003. The proceedings have been moved to this new site, as CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-89.

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-11-24

The Big freedesktop.org Interview (OSNews.com) on new X, DND, Cairo, D-Bus and related.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards (A List Apart) by Daniel M. Frommelt. From HTML 3.2 to XHTML 1.0 transitional with CSS.

Give Microsoft’s money to the FSF for any Californians that get one of the vouchers after the class-action.

There should be a phrase like RTFM that means Do the F-ing Google which I hearby invent - DTFG. To be used when people ask a really dumb question that’s answered by the #1 hit (or the first screenful) of results in a Google[*] search for the question.

[*] If Google is not available, please substitute any other search engine.

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RDF Core request for PR to W3C director was mailed by Brian McBride to the W3C Director on Monday 2003-11-17.

FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears (The Register) Andrew Orlowski

Binary Killed the XML Star? (XML.com) XML-Deviant column by Kendall Grant Clark.