habitually probing generalist

Sunday, 17 Feb 2008   Decker, S. et al. 2000. The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF. Internet Computing, IEEE 4, no. 5:63-73.   For Ontology Development.   Monday – Friday, 18 – 22 Feb 2008     Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of [...]

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Today has been a fairly laid-back day. Considering. I got up at 10-ish and have been on slow ever since. Pauline & Kathryn’s class was having a reading day and I decided to forego more Protégé work this evening in Allen’s class. We will be doing more next week. So I have been giving myself [...]

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Sunday, 10 Feb 2008 Maxwell, Robert L. 2008. FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chicago: American Library Association.   Most of the holdup on this post was in trying to get good comments on this down. I cannot finish them right now, though, so I have cut what I did write and moved it to [...]

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Update 13 Feb 08 late afternoon: I have my email address, etc. back. It seems that my crime was that I was receiving too much spam. Yes; receiving and not sending. I guess shutting down the accounts of people who get maybe 40 spam/day [that gets past any ISP filtering; and always goes into the [...]

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I don’t normally do such things for myself (or so much for others either) but I decided to have myself a little birthday party at one of my favorite local establishments. I do not plan on celebrating next year. I was initially going for something small but I have so many amazing friends whom I [...]

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I have two lazy web requests. Online job applications I am in the process of filling out my first fully online job application and it is not pleasant for so many reasons. Complaining is not my point here, though. The main issues are that in several places there is not enough room to add the [...]

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Monday, 4 Feb 2008 Portrait: Charles Taylor by Ben Rogers. Prospect. At the heart of Taylor’s thought is a critique of “naturalist” modes of thinking, whether manifest in philosophy, social science, economics or psychology. For Taylor, naturalism is the view that all human and social phenomena, including our subjectivity, are best understood on the model [...]

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The end approaches and Tuesday I spent preparing for it. A few weeks ago I sent in a petition to the Grad College to move my “additional” 2 hours from my MS (42 vs. 40-required) to my CAS. That was approved last Friday (Feb 1st). Seeing as I had 72 completed hours that put me [...]

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Thanks to lifehacker I discovered that Read an Ebook Week is in early March. The Epublishers Weekly blog has a post which covers “30 Benefits of Ebooks,” which while containing some bits of truth, if you will, is mostly IMHO made of up bad logic and spurious reasoning. I will not waste my time deconstructing [...]

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Sunday, 27 Jan 2008 Nonmonotonic Logic. Leora Morgenstern. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Suggested by fellow classmate Tom Dousha for additional elucidation for Ontologies Development. Highly understandable resource for non-experts in logic, although having a basic grasp probably helps. Sunday – Wednesday, 27 – 30 Jan 2008 Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational [...]

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