Technology Works?

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Apr 262004
 

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 proven to be a frus­trat­ing exper­i­ence for me, and I can see why so many people say tech­no­logy is just too hard.

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Sometimes you have to laugh

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Apr 152004
 

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 of mem­ber-con­fid­en­tial mail­ing lists and oth­er email addresses. I sure hope the thou­sands of dir­ect recip­i­ents keep it con­fid­en­tial, as requested ;-).

Changing Schedules

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Apr 052004
 

The XML con­fer­ence I chair has tra­di­tion­ally run from Tues­day to Fri­day, with a clos­ing key­note at lunch on the Fri­day. Fri­day has always been a slow day, and was so last year des­pite some excel­lent talks. Part of this is because people are tired, and par­tially because the exhib­it­ors pack up and go home on Thursday evening.

So we’ve made some changes this year.

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Communicating with reviewers

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Apr 022004
 

I sent the email out to many people ask­ing them to be review­ers for the con­fer­ence; it’s touch­ing how many people are pleased to be asked, and pleased to review, each year. It’s not a lot of work, and gives people a chance to see what’s hap­pen­ing and what oth­ers think is import­ant enough to want to talk about, which is enough for some people, but many do it to help. This sense of com­munity is what makes chair­ing a con­fer­ence like XML 2004 worthwhile.

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