Dancing About Architecture

Where's my Google March Madness widget -- er, gadget? I see there's one for Yahoo! Widget Engine and seems like there's a nice SpringWidgets one (see below), but nothing for Google Desktop. Don't see one for Vista Sidebar either. Ah well. The nice thing about SpringWidgets it that it works both in a web page and on the desktop ... very cool.

March Madness always reminds me of one of our coolest Spies back from the Spyonit.com days: we'd alert at the conclusion of every game, or only for upsets. That was a fun one.

Posted by Eric at 08:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So, why is the so-called Semantic Web (caps absolutely Required) doomed to fail? While there might be lots of technical reasons, all you really need to know is that one of the core specs for the Semantic Web has the acronym of GRDDL. I'm sure they want me to pronounce that "griddle", but I can't help but pronounce it "girdle". What's even worse is what is stands for: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. Gleaning? Really ... you're going with gleaning? I can understand picking lame-ass words to fit a bitchin' acronym, but you chose gleaning so you could nail down the girdle acronym? I really don't need to know any more about these people.

This has become a useful filtering mechanism, actually. I get contacted by lots of different companies about all sorts of things (note to tech recruiters: I will never ever answer my phone, so stop calling). Now, when I check the company's web page, if the words "Semantic Web" show up I know I can ignore them, as they will be neither competitive nor complementary to anything I'm interested in doing.

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