Rated Top-Ten
Cheers (and Good Night!),
Sean
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
And just before I go to bed...
An interesting blog for y'all to gander at:
Rated Top-Ten
Cheers (and Good Night!),
Sean
Rated Top-Ten
Cheers (and Good Night!),
Sean
Froogle me this, Froogle me that...
Options with RDF
Now, I don't claim to be an RDF guru, far from it, however I have been working a lot with it recently at the office, and think I have a pretty good handle on it. For that reason, I'm blogging a bit about a pet peeve of how RDF is sometimes written by tools/people who don't really understand it--or at least share my understanding of it.
In RDF if you want to have a list of items, you can use a container of either a <rdf:Bag> type or <rdf:Seq> depending on if you want an unordered, or ordered list. In each of them, you end up having a list of <rdf:li> list items. For people with HTML experience this is pretty simple.
What happens when you generate a list from a multi-select box or drop-down type Option selection widget? Well, it should simply create an XML/RDF structure thusly:
<RDF:Bag>
<RDF:li>Foo</RDF:li>
<RDF:li>Bar</RDF:li>
</RDF:Bag>
Only some people/tools add their own slice of XML:
<RDF:Bag>
<RDF:li>
<option>Foo</option>
</RDF:li>
<RDF:li>
<option>Bar</option>
</RDF:li>
</RDF:Bag>
Not only is this harder to read and understand in a large RDF graph, it generates completely unnessesary triples. Even in RDF, which is by far the most complex XML syntax I've worked with (save XMI from the OMG) the KISS principle should apply.
Cheers,
Sean
In RDF if you want to have a list of items, you can use a container of either a <rdf:Bag> type or <rdf:Seq> depending on if you want an unordered, or ordered list. In each of them, you end up having a list of <rdf:li> list items. For people with HTML experience this is pretty simple.
What happens when you generate a list from a multi-select box or drop-down type Option selection widget? Well, it should simply create an XML/RDF structure thusly:
<RDF:Bag>
<RDF:li>Foo</RDF:li>
<RDF:li>Bar</RDF:li>
</RDF:Bag>
Only some people/tools add their own slice of XML:
<RDF:Bag>
<RDF:li>
<option>Foo</option>
</RDF:li>
<RDF:li>
<option>Bar</option>
</RDF:li>
</RDF:Bag>
Not only is this harder to read and understand in a large RDF graph, it generates completely unnessesary triples. Even in RDF, which is by far the most complex XML syntax I've worked with (save XMI from the OMG) the KISS principle should apply.
Cheers,
Sean
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Friday, February 24, 2006
Stupid or Insane?
Apparently the new Conservative Government is reaching out to the US and suggesting they may want to go against the vast majority of Canadian wishes and join the North American Ballistic Missile Defense:
Defense minister backs U.S. missile plan
Just one more instance where I feel the need to say 'I Told You So' to all those voters out there who thought Stephen Hairpiece would keep his promises and stick to the limited mandate Canadians gave him. He's the Government now, and if his neo-con masters south of us are to be believed, anything he does is the law, so suck it up peons.
And all this talk of BMD despite the fact that former US DoD Asst. Sec of Defense Phil Coyle says the whole program is a colossal failure.
Oh, and that wonderful National Child Care program? Canceled. Thanks Stephen--now my ex-wife can get the $100 a month for my daughter's daycare, and the overall costs will go up treble that. Guess who'll be picking up the extra there? Not you, you prick.
Cheers,
Sean
Defense minister backs U.S. missile plan
Just one more instance where I feel the need to say 'I Told You So' to all those voters out there who thought Stephen Hairpiece would keep his promises and stick to the limited mandate Canadians gave him. He's the Government now, and if his neo-con masters south of us are to be believed, anything he does is the law, so suck it up peons.
And all this talk of BMD despite the fact that former US DoD Asst. Sec of Defense Phil Coyle says the whole program is a colossal failure.
Oh, and that wonderful National Child Care program? Canceled. Thanks Stephen--now my ex-wife can get the $100 a month for my daughter's daycare, and the overall costs will go up treble that. Guess who'll be picking up the extra there? Not you, you prick.
Cheers,
Sean
Sean on an Academic Reading List?
You got it! While bumming around the web the other day I came across a link to my Zend.com Article Web Services with NuSOAP listed on a reading list for a Comp Sci course from the School of Engineering, the University of California, Santa Cruz:
Reading List - Hypermedia and the Web
Sean has hit the big time! Now if only Zend would publish my next article in a timely manner :)
Cheers,
Sean
Reading List - Hypermedia and the Web
Sean has hit the big time! Now if only Zend would publish my next article in a timely manner :)
Cheers,
Sean
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
A LAVerly model ;)
Mike Grant is a member of the RMMC (our local model club here) and besides being an amazing graphic artist, and very nice guy (aren't all those English blokes nice?) he is an absolutely incredible modeler, as you can see from the 1/35 LAV kit he did below:
Italeri LAV-25
If I can ever be half as good as Mike, I could die a happy plastic-addict.
Mike, I bow to your 'mad skillz'.
Cheers,
Sean
Italeri LAV-25
If I can ever be half as good as Mike, I could die a happy plastic-addict.
Mike, I bow to your 'mad skillz'.
Cheers,
Sean
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A Liberal View?
I could have chosen any number of sources to support my ire regarding Harper's continued trashing of typical Canadian process, but I'll betray my Liberal Party of Canada affiliation by linking to their take on it:
Harper to Politicize Supreme Court Appointments
In my mind this is just one more way Stephen Harper wishes to turn Canada into USA-lite. Let's turn the appointment of Supreme Court Justices into a three ring political circus! Damn Harper. Damn Layton, and Damn the Liberals too for being so damned corrupt Canadians felt they needed to replace them with Stephen the Hairpiece, betrayer of Canada!
Cheers,
Sean
Harper to Politicize Supreme Court Appointments
In my mind this is just one more way Stephen Harper wishes to turn Canada into USA-lite. Let's turn the appointment of Supreme Court Justices into a three ring political circus! Damn Harper. Damn Layton, and Damn the Liberals too for being so damned corrupt Canadians felt they needed to replace them with Stephen the Hairpiece, betrayer of Canada!
Cheers,
Sean
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Shiny happy people suck.Monday, February 13, 2006
Some days you just feel like a cigar...Custom 1932 Ford Coup
Well, not quite what you'd expect when you think of a Custom '32 Ford Coup....
This is a 1/25 scale model of a '32 Coup my Grandfather rebuilt as a truck in the 1950s. I'm building it as an entry to the RMMC PPG (Paint-Putty-Glue) competition running in March.
Cheers,
Sean
This is a 1/25 scale model of a '32 Coup my Grandfather rebuilt as a truck in the 1950s. I'm building it as an entry to the RMMC PPG (Paint-Putty-Glue) competition running in March.
Cheers,
Sean
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Dear God...Or Allah...Or the Great Pumpkin...
Even my former Alma Matter UPEI is ending up involved in this Muhammad cartoon brouhaha:
CBC News: P.E.I. students return newspapers with Muhammad cartoon
My take on it is people are simply looking for their own bit of infamy by poking the hornets nest here. Yes, there's freedom of the press (although, the fact that the Danish paper involved rejected Jesus cartoons previously smacks of racism in this case) but then there's simply getting in front of a bus to get your name in the paper. I think Cadre editor Ray Keating is doing just that. Let's put PEI on the map as being anti-Islam.
Pull your head out of your ass Ray.
Cheers,
Sean
CBC News: P.E.I. students return newspapers with Muhammad cartoon
My take on it is people are simply looking for their own bit of infamy by poking the hornets nest here. Yes, there's freedom of the press (although, the fact that the Danish paper involved rejected Jesus cartoons previously smacks of racism in this case) but then there's simply getting in front of a bus to get your name in the paper. I think Cadre editor Ray Keating is doing just that. Let's put PEI on the map as being anti-Islam.
Pull your head out of your ass Ray.
Cheers,
Sean
Technorati Tags: Muhammad Cartoon, PEI, Politics
Friday, February 10, 2006
And Speaking of my Brother...
He happens to be this guy:
Cavan Campbell
He's a big-shot movie-dude, I'm a big-shot computer-dude....don't mess my family or we'll mess up your computer--and film it! :)
Cheers,
Sean
Cavan Campbell
He's a big-shot movie-dude, I'm a big-shot computer-dude....don't mess my family or we'll mess up your computer--and film it! :)
Cheers,
Sean
Am I up for a Challenge?
My brother's working on a postcard story for The Writers' Union of Canada Postcard Story Competition and asked me to critique it. Well, I was somewhat harsh, and said I didn't like it too much--so I was challenged to write a similar story (<250 words) on a similar topic (mine disaster) from a similar point of view. So that said, here it is for your considered opinion:
Two Loves
By S.D. Campbell
Cocooned within the bosom of Mother Earth he chipped away at her stony arteries. The air smelled of deep, and dark, and dust and smoke. A glint of steel, a flash of spark, and she would rumble and shift in her slumber.
The smell of fear. His fear. Their fear. Her fear?
Did Her heart beat faster with that fear, or was it his heart, his feet, his fear?
Clutching, grabbing, screaming, choking. Out, where was out?
Stony fingers tore his skin. She wished him to stay. Cries of terror and despair in the darkness. She didn't wish him to go. She would clutch him to her breast, and keep him embraced within her.
Closer now. He could almost smell sunlight. He breathed deeply of it.
A mistake. Coughing, choking, stumbling.
Another rumble in the distance. Was she choking? Choked with fear?
What did she fear?
He was crawling now, over Them, their weak fingers pulling at him, plucking his sleeve, but they could no more hold him back than she could. Her heart-beats grew louder, more insistent. His scrabbling towards sunlight became more desperate.
He loved her, but there was another, and She loved him and he her more so than Mother Earth. He was not ready to sleep with Her yet. The other…
Golden hair, sapphire eyes, molded from pale clay she waited just beyond the dark.
Suddenly, finally all was sound and fury, signifying….
The other and her fear.
Cheers,
Sean
Two Loves
By S.D. Campbell
Cocooned within the bosom of Mother Earth he chipped away at her stony arteries. The air smelled of deep, and dark, and dust and smoke. A glint of steel, a flash of spark, and she would rumble and shift in her slumber.
The smell of fear. His fear. Their fear. Her fear?
Did Her heart beat faster with that fear, or was it his heart, his feet, his fear?
Clutching, grabbing, screaming, choking. Out, where was out?
Stony fingers tore his skin. She wished him to stay. Cries of terror and despair in the darkness. She didn't wish him to go. She would clutch him to her breast, and keep him embraced within her.
Closer now. He could almost smell sunlight. He breathed deeply of it.
A mistake. Coughing, choking, stumbling.
Another rumble in the distance. Was she choking? Choked with fear?
What did she fear?
He was crawling now, over Them, their weak fingers pulling at him, plucking his sleeve, but they could no more hold him back than she could. Her heart-beats grew louder, more insistent. His scrabbling towards sunlight became more desperate.
He loved her, but there was another, and She loved him and he her more so than Mother Earth. He was not ready to sleep with Her yet. The other…
Golden hair, sapphire eyes, molded from pale clay she waited just beyond the dark.
Suddenly, finally all was sound and fury, signifying….
The other and her fear.
Cheers,
Sean
Stephen Harper sets idiocy record
I have to say, I think Greg Felton hit this nail pretty square on the head.
Stephen Harper sets idiocy record--commits political suicide during swearing-in ceremony
and while it might not make a damned bit of difference, you might as well sign this if the Emerson defection gets you irate:
http://www.petitiononline.com/RDE/
Cheers,
Sean
Stephen Harper sets idiocy record--commits political suicide during swearing-in ceremony
and while it might not make a damned bit of difference, you might as well sign this if the Emerson defection gets you irate:
http://www.petitiononline.com/RDE/
Cheers,
Sean
Monday, February 06, 2006
INCOMING REVIEW – BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SCAR
As a new, and ongoing feature, I present Lighthope's episodic reviews of current (Season 2) Battlestar Galactica Episodes. Beware, there be spoilers here.
REVIEW – BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SCAR
Cheers,
Sean
REVIEW – BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SCAR
Cheers,
Sean
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CBC News: Surprise! Cabinet includes defector and senator-to-be
For those of us who actually paid attention to the substance of Harper's campaign rather than the flash, this is no surprise--he can't even keep his promises for a few weeks.
CBC News: Surprise! Cabinet includes defector and senator-to-be:
It makes me want to vomit how many Canadians will let him get away with this.
Cheers,
Sean
CBC News: Surprise! Cabinet includes defector and senator-to-be:
It makes me want to vomit how many Canadians will let him get away with this.
Cheers,
Sean
Friday, February 03, 2006
Dradis contact! Bearing 3-4-8, Carom 1-2-0.
One more reason to hate Microsoft:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/82910/microsoft-admits-to-handing-over-search-data-to-feds.html
Isn't it time to take out this threat in our midst? Time to boycott Microsoft.
Cheers,
Sean
Technorati Tags: Programming, Politics, Battlestar Galactica
Thursday, February 02, 2006
If you meet me have some courtesy...
Ah, nothing like listening to the Stones, eating porridge and outlining a software development roadmap. It's not work--it's fun!
I'm a dork, but at least I can accept that.
Cheers,
Sean
I'm a dork, but at least I can accept that.
Cheers,
Sean
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
And for those of you keeping track...
Yes, this would be my fourth or fifth Blog I've started. That said, I think I'm getting the hang of the whole blogging thing, and unlike the rest of my failed attempts, I think I'll be keeping this pretty general--which means that you can expect me to rant about any number of weird and wonderful things.
But, just to pique your attention, here is the state of democracy in the USA today:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_go_co/state_of_union_sheehan
At least she got an appology...heads and shoulders better than Canadian diplomats in Bagdhad.
Cheers,
Sean
But, just to pique your attention, here is the state of democracy in the USA today:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_go_co/state_of_union_sheehan
At least she got an appology...heads and shoulders better than Canadian diplomats in Bagdhad.
Cheers,
Sean
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