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Wed 10 May 2006

VDX

Elaina:: VDX you down so haaaarrrrrrdddddd!
Richard:: *blank look*
Elaina:: You gotta take the smiles where they come, babe… it's bleak.

Posted at 2006-05-10 18:26:17 by Richard • Link to VDX
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Photographs

Tapping ‘down’, hammering through photographs in iPhoto, the proverbial life flashing before my eyes, played out on a 15.4" screen. A collection of people and places that, together, doesn't mean much to anyone but a few people in the world, and to no-one more than me.

Burnham, Dublin, my old rooms in Windsor and in St. Patrick's Hall, the University, Lisa's house; 2003, 2004; hall formals, pub trips with friends, playing with dogs. Photographs of me, and of Anthony, with short hair, long hair, and somewhere in-between. Rain.

There's a picture here from April 2004, a pair of new shoes. Those same shoes are now “my old brown shoes” and they're sitting by the fireplace, five thousand miles from where that photograph was taken. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.

2005 and 2006 move more quickly; more people, more places. It's startling to see the variety and the change, and to remember the pictures that are just mine. How stealthily does time fly!

I thought my penchant for trying to record the present had abated somewhat; I'm not sure I was right. I know I'm glad for these pictures.

Posted at 2006-05-10 13:06:20 by Richard • Link to Photographs
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Extensible value testing

Yay for extensibility!

* (run-sparql "
  PREFIX ex:    <http://example.com/ns/>
  PREFIX con:   <http://nwalsh.com/rdf/contacts#>
  PREFIX rdf:   <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
  PREFIX rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
  SELECT ?label WHERE {
    ?address rdf:type con:Address .
    FILTER (ex:contact-address-matching-string
            (?address, \"1310 Villa St, Mountain View, CA\"))
    ?address rdfs:label ?label .
  }
")

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<sparql xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rf1/result2">
  <head>
    <variable name="label" />  
  </head>
  <results ordered="false" distinct="false">
    <result>
      <binding name="label">
        <literal>Tellme's Mountain View offices</literal>
      </binding>
    </result>
  </results>
</sparql>
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Posted at 2006-05-10 12:31:05 by Richard • Link to Extensible value t…
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