Trying out Wavr, a WordPress plugin that allows embedding a Google Wave in a blog. If you have a wave account, you can see my notes (and comment on them and interact with them) after the cut. The trick seems to be identifying the wave ID. This architecture summary didn’t clarify. From the URL in the wave.google.com [...]

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I continue to be a newbie in the Identity space, so the plenary session the first day is a good map for me as i go throughout the rest of the unconference. Bookmarks including documents for further reading at Delicious. Notes from the plenary session after the cut. I arrived during the discussion of The Identity Trust [...]

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Turning from a conference i (mostly) attended to a conference i had no excuse to attend, this week was the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009). Twitter didn’t reveal much discussion with a few tweets discovered with “sigspatial” and a few others referring to “ACM [...]

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I’m not feeling well, but i can get to “Many Eyes,” so here are some visualizations of the whole corpus of IIW tweets. The Wordle The Wordle is useful to find good starting points for using a word tree visualization. (Many Eye’s “tag cloud” is similarly useful and additionally allows exploring the occurrences of use.) I started [...]

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Top ten authors for the day: 8 ciberch (Monica Keller) 8 fulling (Steve Fulling) 8 jtrentadams (J Trent Adams) 8 judico (judi) 8 ragavan (ragavan) 15 windley (Phil Windley) 16 ryazwinski (Rick Yazwinski) 17 mwhelm (mwhelm) 22 anilsaldhana (Anil Saldhana) 68 DrErnie (Ernest Prabhakar) Iterating over this retrieval command, curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom\?q=iiw+OR+iiw9\&rpp=100\&page=1 >\ TweetsIIW9_Tues01.xml i collected the recent #IIW (and #IIW09) tweets, as i did at the end of [...]

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I started out this morning on a small task for my mother, one i’ve not completed, which was looking up the Family Tree DNA testing for my grandfather ($169 for Y-DNA37 or $119 for Y-DNA12). This reminded me that i needed to follow up on a discrepancy in the genetic genealogy on my paternal line. [...]

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This rave review from if:book and thismore cautious notice from my colleague Roy Tennant in RLG programs both address the news from the Internet Archive about the Bookserver project. (I knew i had to decline the invitation for last night’s celebration, but i have a sense of wistful regret reading these posts.) If you’re interested about [...]

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So, i spent a little time this weekend remembering how to use Illustrator. MacGPS Pro will make a chart of elevations: i want the look and feel to match the other maps and diagrams i imagine (fantasize) making. In all that exploring, i found: 1) The pdf export’s elevation line is actually many line segments, too [...]

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I’ve a new (refurbished, late 2008) MacBook Pro and have a number of issues with it. This post is to track my troubleshooting on a few issues. Both Macs were running 10.5.8. One of the many suspicions of hardware instability that led me to the new MBP, was a series of Grey Screens of Death. I also [...]

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I’ve written about this case before, where Santa Clara County was charging far more than the cost of reproduction for the parcel geodata and was being sued for violating California’s Public Record Act (PRA). The data has been finally provided to the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) at $3.10 per disk. There’s a press release/article after [...]

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