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Chai Blues @ YVR

If you’re fly­ing out of Van­couver Inter­na­tional Air­port through gates E91 — E96 (part of the U.S. depar­tures area), avoid the coffee/snackbar there.

2004 06 10 General Comments (0)

Surveys

As a small busi­ness owner, I often get people call­ing up with some sur­vey or another. They want to know whether my busi­ness is grow­ing, whether I’ll be hir­ing more people this year, and what soft­ware and ser­vices I sell. If these sur­veys are the basis of the eco­nomic polls pre­dict­ing what’s hap­pen­ing this year, […]

2004 05 03 General Comments Off

Technology Works?

I’ve been slowly work­ing on a tutorial for using entity res­ol­u­tion cata­logs that I prom­ised the OASIS Entity Res­ol­u­tion Tech­nical Com­mit­tee (ERTC) I’d do (I chair the TC). As befits a proper tutorial, I figured I should test out the bits as I’m writ­ing them in more than one imple­ment­a­tion, just so I can warn people of the poten­tial pit­falls. This has proved to be a frus­trat­ing exper­i­ence for me, and I can see why so many people say tech­no­logy is just too hard.

2004 04 26 Technology Comments Off

Sometimes you have to laugh

The Nigerian spam action shows no signs of dying down, but some­times you do have to laugh… on scan­ning the TAG archives I came across this post­ing in which the sub­ject line is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL but the email has been sent to no fewer than 6 pub­lic W3C mail­ing lists, as well as a bunch […]

2004 04 15 General Comments Off