The top level of John Wilkin’s classification (claffification syftem) from his An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language
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I am a software and information architect in the Seattle, WA, USA area. I can be contacted through this website, and am generally happy to hear from people who aren’t sending viruses or various offers to sell stock, enhance various body parts, and/or transfer currency around in dodgy ways.
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For all the librarians out there
2008 November 18 in information seeking, infosci
Antelope-as-document is a famous article in information science/librarianship, which this song seems to be ‘about,’ more or less.
“Honking Antelope”
Why…
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Title Bar off screen Mac OS X
2008 October 04 in general
So, I decided to put this on my blog as there’s about 1000 mentions of this problem and none of this simple solution. First, let me start by saying, if you encounter this problem…
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me; previous days
2008 September 20 in general
Earlier this summer, I was working on the technology for the websites grid.org and groups.grid.org. These are largely drupal-based websites, my responsibilities in them were varied but like many drupal projects a…
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me; these days
2008 September 20 in happenstance
So, I haven’t been posting much recently because I’m working as engineering lead at a stealth startup. I’m doing things stealthily at the moment, mainly, sneaking up behind people with large amounts of source…
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InfoCamp: We’re revolting people.
2008 September 17 in general
What’s so revolutionary about InfoCamp?
InfoCamp gives the power to the people! It turns the traditional conference structure upside-down, with most of the conference content being designed and delivered by the people who…
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2005 April 04 at 11:35 pm
lauren
i love this language. do you own the book? i want to read it.
someday.