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Friday, April 7th, 2006

Symbolic Picture of CSS3

Guess what, the inventor of CSS has published his doctoral thesis; Maybe there is also someone (else but me) to take a quick glance or even plunge into his papers: Have some look!

There you can find out more about this some kind of abstruse string in this post’s headline, namely the CLink proposal, and many other things…

You can find Håkon Wium Lie’s Thesis, submitted for the degree of Doctor Philosophice at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo in Norway on Opera’s homepage (His work is licensed under a CC Attribution – NonCommercial 2.5 License).

Abbreviations everywhere

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The New Semantic WEB My sister recently asked me, what does “rtm” or respectively the more coarse one, “rtfm” mean, and some friends of the company began to laugh. But why? – It is not as obvious to her (to someone, who does not sit in front of pc all day long), as it might be to some Internet-addicts like me :D . Therefore I had some second thoughts about why we use so many abbreviations.

As Einstein once said:

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once

… but with YAA it may seem to. Therefore I thought it is the right time to write down a short list of acronyms which may prove useful for the understanding some upconimg W3C articles (and others) about Semantic Web (not just a hype?) technologies. Read more…