Want some interesting viewing? Google Video has a 49 minute BBC Horizon documentary from a while back about creationism.
Good news. Kent Newsome has started blogging again. I was missing his always intelligent thoughts from my news aggregator.
Mark C. Taylor: “Today professors court harassment or worse by including “unacceptable” books on their syllabi or by studying religious ideas and practices in ways deemed improper by religiously correct students. Distinguished scholars at several major universities have been subjected to credible death threats for proposing psychological, sociological and anthropological interpretations of religious texts in their classes and published writings. In the most egregious cases, defenders of the faith insist that only true believers are qualified to teach their religious tradition.”
Terry Sanderson: “The government’s proposal to bring in more religious representatives from other faiths is the least democratic and most misguided of all courses of action. Where will it end? If you give places to one religion, then why not another? If to a Sunni representative, why not a Shia? If to an orthodox rabbi, why not a liberal one?”
For future reference
On the OPML Support mailing list a few days ago, Andrew Grumet posted the reason why the OPML Editor doesn’t work with IE7:
It’s the htmlcontrol that renders Harry S and the status message. If you edit the source db to prevent its invocation, the app launches and runs fine (assuming you don’t need anything that was exposed in the html). My guess is that the IE6 to IE7 upgrade broke it somehow.
Presumably, one could open the source in Frontier, edit it and open it up.
According to the folks on the frontierkernel developers list, it doesn’t seem that there is a reason why Frontier (and, by extension, the OPML Editor) won’t run on Vista - except that the rendering of ‘wp-text’ is done using a library that has changed.
A polite note
Would it be possible for all online game makers to put update files up on their websites. It’s all well and good to have an update mechanism within your software, but if it doesn’t support resuming downloads, that doesn’t get us very far.
In order to get a largeish update for Final Fantasy XII’s PlayOnline software (appEU.dll), I have tried to download Ethereal, the packet sniffing software for Windows, in order to figure out what file is being downloaded. Alas, that doesn’t seem to be working.
Resuming downloads is important if you are going to be downloading files larger than about 10Mb. Please make sure your software supports it. Don’t force me to sniff my own packets to find out what’s going on. At the very least, if you are downloading an update, let me right click and grab the URL.
Please, if you can point me towards where I can get appEU.dll, I’d be eternally grateful!
Update: Got it. Doesn’t change the fact that PlayOnline should have resuming downloads.
Protégé
No release of the movie attention ontology today. I’ve been chatting with the #swig-gies on IRC, and Danny Ayers has made a good suggestion as to how I can improve the idea.
I’ve cracked open Protégé and read this excellent guide to ontology development. I’ve got my basic ontology built in to Protégé. I found a pre-existing ontolgoy called IMDB Mapping Movie Ontology and have imported it in to mine. Took a few moments to download, but a whole lot of thinking is done for me. Neat.
I really think Protégé is a great piece of software. The Mac version is a bit buggy and strange - it doesn’t use Cmd for copy-paste, for instance - but it’s a neat piece of software.
I’ll be releasing the next version soon. Eventually, I want to get in to a kind of “bazaar” style of ontology development. I’m a newbie, so I think this is perfect. If I can grok it, then we have some hope for the future. “;->” The idea is simple. I release, you comment, I read the comments, change the ontology and then re-release.
