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2006: it’s a wrap! And, we bid you adieu.

Via a Groundhog Day pointer to Furious Seasons who writes about Love American Style: Web 2.0 And Narcissism

In Seattle, any popular coffeehouse is filled with people who just sit at tables on their laptops and communicate with other fictional selves on the Net instead of doing the least bit of the communication and interaction—positive or negative—with people sitting five feet away. All those people, all that weird isolation.

Happy Holidays!

The QuickTime flaw that led to phishing attacks on MySpace can be found in both the Windows and MacOS X versions of the media player, a security company warned Monday. Apple has yet to patch the player.

via SecurityNewsPortal.com

Energy Crisis Seen for Tech

The nation’s biggest technology companies sat down with federal regulators Wednesday to assess the industry’s thirst for power amid fears that volatile and expensive energy could hinder the growing sector.

The fierce competitors at the table — including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard — rarely gather to talk strategy. But they were lured by the chance to influence the development of national energy standards.

Sarah Jane Tribble, via StickyMinds.com

Traveling far and wide with deep-linking and side-tripping. How far will you go?

Just Shelley in Neighborly Linking points to Sheila Lennon links pointing to an article titled, How to Remove Tourists from your Photos, a PhotoShop hack.

Side-tripping from the Sheila Lennon link Noted: Smashing the Clock, points to the article on Yahoo Biz, “The Changing Workplace” by Michelle Conlin, of BusinessWeek Online.

Side tripping from there reaps, CNNMoney.com’s article Best Places to Live, 2006, which brings us to #5 on the the 10 best places list, Cary, NC and the

• Pros: Great schools, good arts scene
• Con: Road crews everywhere.

And finally, side-tripping from there to Sperling’s Best Places profile of Cary, NC.

Oh no, I am late for an appointment, gotta run. Lucky for you as this post just started sprouting wings and spreadin’ the news. It could have gotten really ugly.

Deep-linking has been brought to you by the “Hand-Made” semantic web.

On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and…) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the current web is a decentralized platform for distributed presentations, while the SemWeb is a decentralized platform for distributed knowledge. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C standard for encoding knowledge.

What is RDF?
Via XML.com
Updated by Joshua Tauberer, July 26, 2006
Updated by Dan Brickley, 2001
Originally written by Tim Bray, 1998

Book Resources:
Practical RDF, by Shelley Powers

Homework assignment:
How is RDF related to the Semantic Web? Is it?

Applying Mock objects effectively is a key factor when performing Test Driven Development (TDD). This article introduces the basics of using JMock, a Mock object framework, in conjunction with Test-Driven Development.

Using JMock in Test Driven Development
Author: Paolo Caroli
Published: TheServerSide, December 2006

From The Server Side Java Community, StelsXML 1.0, JDBC Driver for XML files, released. By Joseph Ottinger:

StelsXML is a JDBC type 4 driver that allows SQL queries and other JDBC operations on XML files. With the commercial StelsXML JDBC driver, you can access data contained in XML documents by using XPath, and largely standard SQL syntax and features, including joins.

A White Paper by Keith Zambelich, Sr. Software Quality Assurance Analyst and Automated Testing Evangelist.

Thanks goes to The Simple Dollars’ 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows pointer to VLC Media Player.

VLC is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Tom Morris posted his first podcast: Podcast #1: Semantic Web and RDF

No flash, no bumpers, no nonsense. Simple format, juicy content. I was able to easily download, catch some good links, and totally enjoy the podcast on my old laptop. Thanks Tom!