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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/iand
Monthly Archives: September 2004
WordPress and PmWiki
Just had a very funny experience. I made a change on the wiki and when I returned to the weblog my posts had disappeared. Every category was empty and even permanent link urls were showing no matching entries. In panic … Continue reading
Redesign and Move to WordPress
I’ve finally succumbed to the lure of WordPress. The migration was mostly painless although I find the php functions that WordPress uses somewhat limiting. I know I have the full power of PHP at my disposal now, but even so … Continue reading
Principle of Least Knowledge
Ben Hyde illustrates the thinking behind what I’ve started calling the principle of least knowledge with an excellent privacy scenario: I join a library, anonymously. They give me a membership card – presumably some digital object signed by the library. … Continue reading
W6 Noodling
I’m just noodling around Danny’s W6 ideas. Some background: I have a private project using Moveable Type to build a biographical weblog. The content is of interest only to me, but hopefully the method could be of wider interest. The … Continue reading
RDF for Model, XML for Syntax
Somehow I missed this post from James Tauber on his view of the relationship between XML and RDF back at the beginning of August. What he writes makes a lot of sense and aligns fairly closely with my own view. … Continue reading
Galway FOAF Photos
I couldn’t take my camera, but lots of other people did. I bookmarked some on del.icio.us using the foaf-galway tag. If you have any, please do the same. Thanks to evertyone who organised it and to all the great people … Continue reading
