Time

Time is uneven. Time sloshes; every message sent, from the slowest postcard to the quickest SMS, drags a small piece of the past with it. The truths that apply when you write don't keep up with the world during their passages from place to place. For a little while, perhaps, your words are content in their ignorance, or stewing in their misbelief.

The Lisper in me sees this as a closure over our words. The romantic in me sees it as a beautiful remnant. A small part of me worries about what is going to be different tomorrow, after I write this, but a bigger part wants to find out.

Posted at 2005-08-08 18:07:37 by Richard • Link to Time
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Hankerings

Now that I'm a few thousand miles away from my PS2, I have a sudden hankering to play Frequency. I wonder if they do it for the PSP….

(If you know, please post in the comments… that means you, Matt!)

Posted at 2005-08-08 16:24:33 by Richard • Link to Hankerings
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Productive morning

Last night I decided to have a crack at re-implementing danbri and Libby's Schemarama using twinql and SPARQL. The code dropped out quite nicely, but in writing it I noticed a bug in twinql*. Like a diverted river I'm now working on a proper test suite, which keeps again forking me into implementing things I'd left hanging.

So, twinql now deals properly with bnodes — all three types; [], [ … ], and _:a — and the XML result outputter now uses the latest recommended namespace. Not bad for a morning's work!

A release should follow in a day or so.

* Not stuff anyone but me would use — an obscure edge case when precompiling a SELECT query, and providing pre-selected bindings hashes.

Posted at 2005-08-08 11:37:00 by Richard • Link to Productive morning
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