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August 2009 - Writ of Hapaxeas Corpus

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  • Oxymorons and Self-Reference

    The other day as I was browsing through the articles in my feed reader the words " warm ice cream " caught my eye. Warm ice cream?! Oh well, it turns out it's not really supposed to be warm, it's only supposed to be unfrozen until you...

  • Lost in parallelization?

    A common task for any programmer, or project manager for that matter, is isolating parts of a task that can be simultaneously executed, giving them the option of finishing the task faster by employing more resources. Unfortunately, not all tasks are suitable...

  • Mor[e ]on patents

    Since posting the other day about the injunction a Texas court placed against Microsoft for infringing patent 5787449, preventing them from selling some versions of MS Word, I've been trying to follow events. I think this is pretty important for the...
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  • Social Media Revolution

    "Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?" On my way to work, I browsed through the free paper Metro on the train, and my eyes fell on a small column called "Dagens Internet" (Today's Internet...

  • What do you mean, "meaning"?

    Ahhhh, "Semantics." Since (at least) Brian Reid's Scribe system, people have been arguing that it's better to say that this part of your writing is the "salutation" rather than just 3 lines that each start with a tab. Or "a...

  • Patent Weirdness...

    This isn't my usual kind of topic, but I learned today that someone has gotten a permanent injunction against MS that prevents them from selling any version of Word that can read arbitrary XML documents -- and awards damages in the hundreds of $M...
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  • The "Transparency Corps"

    Transparency Corps is a crowd-sourced effort to make government documents available online. The conversion from images of paper, to usable data, is the essence of the Semantic Web. Once you can point a program at some data and do something with it, you can build all kinds of analysis programs, mashups, and other gadgets of all kinds to add value.

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