Month: June 2003

Broken appointment


A Broken Appointment
By Thomas Hardy
6/2/1840-1/11/1928
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. –
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure loving kindness’ sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
You love not me,
And love alone can lend you loyalty;
– I know and knew it. But, unto the store
Of human deeds divine in all but name,
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once, you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love not me?

I’m sorry, while I don’t love you, I still like you very much and am truly sorry about missing our appointment the other day.

puzzle pieces


i’m spending my weekend at the KAYWA office. there is lots to do before the moblogging conference: texts need to be written, designs to be finished, helpful explanations drawn, claims formulated. lots of fun. here is a teaser:

Founded by a group of weblog enthusiasts in 2003, KAYWA offers products that make publishing on the Internet effortless, mobile and personal. Kaywa believes in the power of weblogs to fundamentally change communication patterns and social networks. It is our mission to help this transition towards a more expressive Internet by creating products that empower users to publish. With KAYWA, users can finally write back.

Open source seminar

unfortunately, neither university of zurich nor st. gallen are yet blog-enabled, and thus failed to spread word about a very interesting seminar that took place today. michi attended, and we think collaboration between the theorists and the open source practitioners will continue.
next time, i will try to be there, and blog the session.

in love of functional languages

i’m increasingly falling in love with xslt. i kinda skipped functional languages in school, so i’m happy to pick them up via angle brackets now. some recursive stuff is pretty nasty, but that is more a function (can you pun yourself?) of my lack of understanding..
in other news, saxon now has support for XSLT 2.0. yummy. some of the new features

  • regular expressions for text nodes
  • a grouping function xsl:for-each-group
  • casting via xsl:import-schema
  • multiple document output

Breeders to feeders

elke remarked yesterday that the meta trend underlying all the (mo)blog, social software, PIM, geodata pushes is the desire of people to rebuild their existence online, piece by piece. digital immortality? breeders becoming feeders of their digital selves?
i hope she will pick up this line of thought in her thesis.

burning FOAF

With the help of anselm, JibberJim, danbri, and zool from #foaf on irc.freenode.net, as well as the almighty google, I’ve compiled the below links (in the extended entry of this post). The plan is to add plugins to the web logging (blogs) application we will be using to provide burners with publishing, Movable Type, to allow people to set up their own FOAF identity and where they can be found on the playa.

this should be fun. i can hardly think of a better match between the online and the offline. the playa is all about meeting people, and FOAF is the online equivalent of it.