http://www.advogato.org/person/cannam/ Advogato blog for cannam en-us mod_virgule Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:18:55 GMT Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:11:39 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/cannam/diary.html?start=1 http://www.advogato.org/person/cannam/diary.html?start=1 I wonder if there's any chance that Advogato might get an option to remove the FOAF data export from one's profile? <p> <p> At the moment, the file exported through this site is the only FOAF file about me that I'm aware of. It gives the impression that I know about a dozen people; all but two of these are people that I don't know at all. I know some of their code, and I have a sense of their current or former position within a particular field, on the basis of which I certified them -- but I don't "know" them, and I wouldn't have said I "knew" them eight years ago when I actually certified most of them either. <p> <p> This FOAF file is completely misleading, I don't agree with it, I didn't authorise it and I don't want it -- and since it isn't possible to un-certify people on Advogato, there seems to be absolutely nothing I can do about it. (Not that I have any wish to un-certify anyone; I have no problem with the certifications themselves. I just don't want them presented as something they are not.) <p> <p> I don't feel it bodes well for the semantic web, when even at this early stage almost all of the "knowledge" in it about me is wrong. Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:13:40 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/cannam/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/cannam/diary.html?start=0 Well, now <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/bownie/" >bownie</a> has signed up and I believe becomes the first Advogato user that I've ever actually met. (If you have a counterexample, drop me a line.) <p> <p><a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/forrest/" >forrest</a>: I was going to do a Chinese flashcard thing in Javascript once upon a time, but I didn't get very far. I have <a href="http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/chinese/">a toy that pops up the definitions of characters</a> from big5 input, using Javascript and CEDICT's dictionary file. It's a slightly useful-ish tool. The source is up there, but it's a complete mess -- very much a coffee-breaks-and-weekends project of a couple of years back. And the popup things don't work in Mozilla, something I've never got around to fixing. So, I'd be interested to see anything you come up with.