[via Tim Bray] Geoff Arnold says ?I am intrigued by the impact of RFID tags and other sensor technology on IT. But my interest is fairly narrow: I’m curious about what kind of workloads these technologies will impose on corporate data centres. To understand this, I want to get a handle on the numbers: the […]
Dare is asking what benefit RDF has over XML plus namespaces, schema, and XSLT. More accurately, Dare is pointing to Eliotte, who asks those questions.I will answer with a question: Why did WinFSchoose a?triple? based data model, rather thanXML infosets or even relational?The underlying storage is relational data model, and we have plenty of experience […]
W3C had a meeting in NYC to discuss possibility of taking on the Atom spec. It’s an interesting read.
Basically, the discussion between Sam and Eric seems to have been productive. Sam and Eric are both open-minded about the extent to which RDF is or is not used in the new spec, and W3C seems willing […]
Ten daysago, Gunnar Kudrjavetsposed a really tricky algorithm challenge. I spent some time trying to solve it, and then jumped into the comments section to see how others were doing. I noticed that some people were using a programming language called ‘J‘, which is based on APL. Now, I highly doubt that the solutions in […]
Today was a two-battery day [0], so I didn’t notice that Scoble and Dare are writing about me on their blogs. I think Dare’s history of blogging at Microsoft is pretty accurate. I could add a number of details about the early days, but mainly I just want to add that I think there have […]