So I’m up to my eyeballs in proceedings papers for XML 2005 which is one end of the conference spectrum in terms of formality, work for the chair and the planning committee, and degree to which things must be organised, when along comes the reminder that the web site is up for Northern Voice 2006. […]
We went up to the Okanagan wine district for the Canada Day weekend this year, and I think it’s about time I wrote down some of my impressions of the vineyards and the wine. We took my friend Sally (she of G&T fame who knows a lot about wine), and had a great time. Tim […]
Like probably every other computer geek out there, I do a certain amount of helping friends set up their home systems. This particular friend knows nothing about networks and firewalls and the like, and just wanted something secure that would allow her to have a reasonably safe Windows box and the daughter to have a […]
Working in small technical committees on well-constrained problems can be really rewarding; the small group allows for a certain amount of fun in the meetings and everyone knows they have a role to play. I chair the OASIS Entity Resolution TC, which is working on XML Catalogs. The idea of catalogs has been around for […]
What do you do when you need the answer to a question and Google doesn’t deliver? Ask on the blog of course… I would really like to know the answer to this one, as it would save a large amount of irritation and I assume others have the same problem. I’ve spent hours buried deep […]
It’s that time of year again, fewer than 10 days until the deadline for your last chance to speak at XML 2005. This year we kept a lot of slots open for late-breaking talks (which don’t have to be only on really late-breaking subjects, good presentations on other topics that don’t duplicate material already on […]
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