Semantic Web Proceedings The proceedings of the Semantic Web Working Group are available for free download (12Mb). It’s nice to see such a rich resource on such an important topic being made available like this.

O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. If you couldn’t attend in person (like me) check out this roundup of links, news and commentary from the conference. Too many interesting and diverse things here to enumerate but there’ll definately be something of interest to everyone (well, anyone who reads this ) Also, see the Dr. Dobbs TechNet Cast [...]

Here’s an informative article on Ultra Wideband radio – this is an up-and-coming high bandwidth, short range, low power radio technology far superior to today’s radios. Sadly, no implementations exist yet

What’s happening to IM? An article over on CNet reminded me of the Jabber IM project which aims to create a standard XML-based IM protocol. The biggest consumer benefit of Jabber was its gateways to the many existing IM systems like ICQ. The problem was that 8 months ago I couldn’t find a decent, stable, [...]

Mother’s Day Oddities First off, it wasn’t Mother’s Day on Sunday all across the world. England and Ireland have it closer to Easter (10th March this year). Not sure about the rest of the world. So, could websites please use my address or country (which they required me to fill in) and actually use do [...]

A Wallet of Programs I was recently away for a week and since I was using someone else’s laptop I took a couple of self-contained applications away with me. It occurred to me that having a ready-made “program wallet” (a.k.a a directory, flash card, or CD) is very useful when you’re unable to install program [...]

A while back, I read Ross Anderson’s paper “The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks”, here is an updated version which appeared in the recent IEEE Computer publications. I’m not sure how his theories would apply in an open ad-hoc network where you want to be able to use other peoples devices (I [...]

Sobering words indeed… I’ve just discovered that Ed Yourdon has a weblog. I talked to him at a software engineering conference here in Dublin a few years ago. It was pre-2000 so all he was talking about was Y2K. He’s just released a book on how Sept 11th has/will change IT. He must have the [...]