Kill the undead  
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 12:52 PM - Semantic Web
With HP Lovecraft:

Deanimator

I keep meaning to write something about ESWC2007, and the Semantic Scripting Workshop, but things keep getting in the way. The workshop was excellent and it's very inspiring to see all the Semantic Web services that pop up these days, I wont repeat them again, go ask Danny.

Inspired by the hands-on approach of SFSW and also by Knud's fantastic lightweight semantic desktop widgets I have started a little project on my own. I will put details here in due course, for now you can have this:



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New HDR tool for Linux  
Tuesday, May 29, 2007, 05:35 PM - Everything Else
Previosly I've been using a long toolchain consisting of UFRAW, a cinepaint beta-build, qpfstmo and finally Gimp to process my HDR shots. Now finally someone has made a single program for doing both HDR bracketing and tone-mapping in linux!




qtpfsgui is clearly standing on the shoulder of giants, and is building on qpfstmo, but apart from being completely inpronouncable it's an excellent tool. It supports 16 bit TIFFs and all the tone-mappings of qpfstmo (you have to set the exposure values for your TIFFs yourself though)

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Toasted computer scientists  
Tuesday, May 29, 2007, 12:52 PM - Coding
I think this is really old, but it's too good not to spread:


How Computer Scientists Would Design a Toaster




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Backporting N3 to 1990  
Monday, May 14, 2007, 04:27 PM - RDF
(X)emacs is an evil evil disease. Despite a great selection of other text-editors, I can never work as comfortably or quickly as with xemacs, and the xemacs keybindings are so deeply embedded in my soul that I've come to realise that I will never forget them, nor can I override them by learning something new. Therefore I bit into the sour apple that is emacs-lisp and made n3-mode for xemacs!



It's crappy, and does syntax highlighting and comment support only. It didn't take as long as I thought since I recycled the regexps from my previous three efforts:


If you want to take part in the glorious double-fun that is xemacs N3 editing:

  • Download n3mode.el into ~/.xemacs/
  • Add the following lines to ~/.xemacs:

(load "~/.xemacs/n3mode.el")
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.n3$" . n3-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(add-hook 'n3-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

  • Open an N3 file and enjoy!

Now maybe I can finally get around to editting those N3 files, and stop wasting my time.

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Weird Email  
Friday, May 11, 2007, 09:51 AM - Everything Else
Yesterday I got an odd email to my gmail account:

From: Master Doofus <masterdoofus at the domian of gmail.com>
Subject: Hey gromgull, consider getting a new e-mail address

Apparently, your email address happens to have a really high PageRank
value for a Google search for E-mail addresses, making you more
susceptible spam like this that use lame Perl scripts. Feel free to
reply to this mail. Thanks.


WTF? What do I make of this? Do I trust the anonymous person who identifies himself as Master Doofus? Do I break the holy rules of spam prevention and reply? And most importantly, where can I get my own lame perl script?

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