Actually, it’s getting late, so I probably won’t have time to bore you too much. I’m a planner. Or rather, a theoretical planner. Or rather, I like planning intellectual exercises – it’s fun a lot of the time. Like spending time thinking about how I want my web presence to look. No, not graphics, for which I’ll have to steal from other openly licensed looks, I’m talking about URLs and site layout.
I’m stuck trying to decide if I want to use shane.curcuru.name – a semi-standard way to use the .name domain for a person’s main page – or just stick with the older shanecurcuru.org/.com names and leave it at that. Then, what are the fundamental documents I’ll want in canonical locations (hopefully semi-permanently), and what other stuff is less important or may move around and I won’t care.
See, bored already. Heck, we can separate the normal people apart from the librarians and XML/RDF geeks and start discussing what I should name my FOAF file and see who… Ah, there, they’ve all gone now.
foaf.rdf is classic and simple, but I’ve downloaded a bunch of foaf files to see what style other people use, and it’s a real pain to remember which foaf.rdf is which. Hence I’ve decided to use something like curcuru-foaf-current.rdf, which will link to a current copy by YYYYMMDD date, so I can update the list as I meet new and interesting people. Plus, when you download it, the filename means something. Silly, I know, especially for an RDF document (wherein the point is that the computer will understand it, not the human) but I’m sentimental that way.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
Well, actually it was like a week and a half ago, but they didn’t send the email to the friends@ list until a couple of days ago. They definitely have much more artistic first-week baby pictures then we did! Also, they sound suspiciously chipper in the email, although it is indeed written in the silly team-player motif. I did appreciate the shot of mom and baby with the Guinness: “Nursing mothers need their iron and B vitamins”.
Mazeltov, my old friend!
Still have to figure out enough of the swiss army knife of .htacess to be able to fully point shane.curcuru.name at the places I want it to go. I suppose I can write .htaccess files better than 99.9% of the people on the planet, so that’s saying something. The really good people can move entire websites across the planet with the click of a key in their .htaccess. The really really good people simply hire someone else to do it, since mod_rewrite has gotta be one of the most cryptic languages that’s in major production use today.
Still puttering on all the urgent but unimportant things at work, and it’s still February (ick), so I’m still not as present here as I hoped. But with each new post comes a new light. Plus, it was just Valentine’s day (cookies), and it was 45 degrees out today, so that was pretty darn nice.
I love spring. If I had to choose just one season, it’d definitley be summer, probably because of more sun. But spring is such the renewal / awakening / exciting time, especially here in New England. I’m not sure I could stand to live in a single-season area – it’s the changes that keep happening that make weather fun. Just like the old New England saying: ” If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.”
(Edited) Ha! This week was showing off that statement. Last Sunday was reportedly the 11th heaviest blizzard in the Boston area in history (which I don’t believe from my front yard, but hey, it depends on where you measure). We had to shovel 4 times to get the walkway clear. By Thursday night, our yard was snow-free except for small piles of plow schmutz at the corners of the driveway. Freakishly changed in a few days. And Saturday was bitingly cold again.
