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The good news - I think, after six months of at least irregular income, that things are finally looking up. I have a couple of development/documentation clients coming online as well as some secondary streams of income that look to be regular enou...
November 7
Hugh, I very much agree with you concerning the model of Frank, and I think that it's unequivocally where we're moving to from an information processing/filtering standpoint. The underlying assumption (and for the most part it seems to be valid) ...
November 3
With twitter and facebook - one benefit I can see is that when I have a large number of "friends" exploring this universe of ours - they occasionally connect with something that also strikes my fancy/interest - so I go look at what they are doing....
November 3
Le début de ce siècle voit surgir la fin du contrôle de la circulation d'informations entre humains. XML avec son noyau de transformation XSLT appuyé sur XPath est une étape très importante. Je ne suis ni biologiste, ni médecin, mauvais cuisinier ...
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Kurt Cagle

Work vs. Jobs

The good news - I think, after six months of at least irregular income, that things are finally looking up. I have a couple of development/documentation clients coming online as well as some secondary streams of income that look to be regular enough to get me back up to a solid, sustainable level, ironically without having to relocate. For someone who's watched the bills mount and the wolves come closer to the door, I'm definitely happy to see this happen.

The bad news is that I have a feeling… Continue

Posted by Kurt Cagle on November 7, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Kurt Cagle

Future Proof: Phase Transitions

It's been a while since last I wrote here. I fear that while I think these essays represent some of my best writing all told, they come at the expense of insuring that I have food in the pantry, the rent paid and the power on. Still, too much of that can make you tedious, so I'm taking the opportunity of a quiet Monday night to set down a few more thoughts about the nature of social transition.

What changed between July 2007 and July of 2009? There are no fewer people (if any there are quite a… Continue

Posted by Kurt Cagle on October 19, 2009 at 11:10pm — 4 Comments

Dominique Rabeuf

Principe de précaution

Au moment où les récentes mises à jour de 802.11 laissent entrevoir une possible création de multiples réseaux privés WLAN à 2.5GBps pour des coûts ridicules ce qui mettrait rapidement les opérateurs de télécommunications, transmissions hertziennes… Continue

Posted by Dominique Rabeuf on October 17, 2009 at 11:00pm

Dominique Rabeuf

Décès de Francis Muguet

Nous saurons nous souvenir de Francis Muguet. Certains explorent déjà les nouvelles possibilités reposant sur les dernières publications de l' IEEE (WLAN - WiFi - 802.11). Francis ne verra pas l'après Web, mais cet après Web lui doit beaucoup. Je pense à un projet qui fera en sorte de faire découvrir à beaucoup cette personnalité scientifique qui a été un défenseur infatigable du libre accès aux documents fondamentaux que sont les résultats produits par les chercheurs. Les femmes e… Continue

Posted by Dominique Rabeuf on October 17, 2009 at 6:00am

Dominique Rabeuf

Le drapeau noir flotte dans les nuages - Comment sortir le Web du cul de sac

Le drapeau Noir flotte sur la marmite
Et après Deux - Point - Zéro - SaaS/Clouds/Semantic/After Web
Un petit pas de plus pour le logiciel, un grand pas pour les utilisateurs.
Imaginons un gestionnaire de contenu (CMS) réunissant toutes les fonctions des meilleurs d'entre eux même payants mais sans les défauts, en source ouvert, la sécurité et confidentialité en plus, tou… Continue

Posted by Dominique Rabeuf on October 3, 2009 at 6:30am

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