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I'm thinking about switching over to WordPress again. And thinking about moving this to a different server.

Quite early on in our quest for truth, we became aware that certain findings tended to center and enlighten us, as opposed to other pursuits that in a sense left us feeling depleted. Focusing more on the former, we commenced recording such findings that made us feel stronger and more connected with the vital force of our world. Through formally recording our key findings we crystallized deeper understandings which further sustained and strengthened us in coping with ongoing challenges. In time, some of this material was converted into electronic format, and later was 'paged' in the website...

Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.

Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could
harness Google's search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and
the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find
materials available in libraries. In the coming months, Google will collaborate
with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of
the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system.
Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in
the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects
with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public
Library.

I've been a long time owner of a Fisher Bullet Space Pen. Should have realized they have a web site. Prices are pretty good too.

Hmm, maybe I'll ask Santa to get me a new one for Christmas. The olde one has a crunched barrel, but hey it still works.

This was a workshop recently given at EDUCAUSE 04 Conference. There are some interesting ideas here that I'm interested in looking at to server the Internet2 community with.

Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via Trackback.

XFN(tm) (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their tags..

Zzstructure is the generic name for Ted Nelson's ZigZag(tm) [13,6,23,10], an unusual way of linking and organizing information. Zzstructures are one aspect of Nelson's vision of what hypertext should be (see, for example, Xanadu [11,12,5]). Many uses for zzstructures have been proposed, from organizing personal schedules [14], to visualizing genealogical family "trees" [26], to "cell programming" [22] (an example of a cellular programming language is Clang [25]).

The paper considers possible "future everyday hypertext systems". To ground the discussion, we look first at the functional and conceptual definitions of hypertext that have evolved in the hypertext research community. We then consider these definitions against the Web, the best known current everyday hypertext, but one that the hypertext community has regarded as only partially a hypertext system at best. We propose, however, that a full, rich hypertext is alive and well and living in an equally successful everyday system: that system is email. We look at how email meets the criteria, both functionally and conceptually, for rich hypertext. We then use email-as-hypertext as our touchstone for assessing future hypertext systems. In particular, we consider the newest system on the Web event horizon, the Semantic Web, and show how the potential hypertextness of the Semantic Web has been anticipated by pre- and co-Web hypertext research systems. We consider how, if informed by the attributes of our email model, the Semantic Web may be able to break away from the limited hypertext model of the Web to become a rich, everyday hypertext system like email. We present three current hypertext research efforts that use the Semantic Web platform to show how these may be seen to embody such email-like hypertext qualities.

c/o SmartMobs & Google

The Next Big Thing in hypertext will be unifying different applications in bioinformatics through the ZigZag paradigm, allowing this field to live up to its promise of revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry. The paper outlines ZigZag, Ted Nelson's unique hyperstructural paradigm, and illustrates how, by examining a current bioinformatics task such as structure/binding prediction, the application of this novel paradigm has the potential to revolutionise bioinformatics completely by allowing a unified approach to a task currently fulfilled by fragmented data and applications.

Every Fall the ROAV sponsors a rally -- a gathering of Land Rovers. Here are couple links to share fotos from the event.

My index page of images from this year's event.

Here's the ROAV page with links to a couple different sets of images.

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