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Microsoft Internet Explorer bug prevents the browser caching responses with anything but a mindlessly simple Vary: header. - Ian Davis

Dan writes that "Greenpeace's site just refused to let me sign up, because my first name - Dan - is too short. " and lists some other arbitrary limits that sites place on user names - Ian Davis

Similar to Prezi, Jessyink is a plugin for Inkscape which allows you to design slides using SVG, and ships a javascript library inside the resulting SVG for execution. - Ian Davis

Great advice on conference etiquette - Ian Davis

Great writeup of the recent linked data meetup - Ian Davis

Linked Data RDF triples (or JSON) directly from the WPMU MySQL database. Our next step is to automate the upload of the RDF to Talis Connected Commons for use through their API - Ian Davis

Let me go over one of the lines that I think exemplifies this: "I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it." It wasn’t saying: what are we not allowed to do, nor did it talk about some kind of societal injustice. It didn’t talk about the meaning of actions or their long-term effects. Instead it asked: what must we do, not as a society, not in service of some end, but what are we called upon to do as an individual, right now, in service of the people we call friends. It didn’t allude to any sociological explanation, natural selection, economics - Ian Davis

Firefox extension for streamlining offline backup of google docs. Also has a Python version (in beta) - Ian Davis

Some FOAF stats from Sindice for something I had to write last week. - Ian Davis

The high-level organization of Pregel programs is inspired by Valiant's Bulk Synchronous Parallel model. Pregel computations consist of a sequence of iterations, called super-steps. - Ian Davis

Free download of new book The Art of Community - Ian Davis

an open service allowing people to collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects. - Ian Davis

At the end of July the Guardian held an internal hackday at their offices in King's Cross. They invited two engineers from BBC Radio's A&Mi department, Chris Lowis and David Rogers. We teamed up with Leigh Dodds & Ian Davis from Semantic Web specialists, Talis to produce an 'Interactive-MP-Media-Appearance-Timeline' by mashing up data from BBC Programmes and the Guardian's website. - Ian Davis

Data from Government should, quite simply, be freely and easily available. As a matter of course, and without prevarication. Unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise. - Ian Davis

Working from the online archival record, this paper aims to reconstruct the emergence at Jorn Barger’s initiative of the weblog community from a predecessor known as the NewsPage Network. - Ian Davis

did you go over bandwidth quota or just break your web host?! - Chris Keene

it broke the server - memory issues because it's only a small VM :( - Ian Davis

What does this mean for HR departments? Should they take the Cowell approach? - Ian Davis

Could do with RDF properties to map edit links in Atom feeds - Ian Davis

Very cool site that lets you view landscapes and identify the geographic features - Ian Davis

Always wondered who actually powered the turk - here are thirty - Ian Davis

An open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification. - Ian Davis

"Erm, I meant to type $25B of course" - Ian Davis

"Is keeping $35B in the bank a sound strategy in these times of unprecedented bank failures. The government isn't going to underwrite the entire economy. Why aren't they returning that cash to shareholders?" - Ian Davis

Statistics on content sniffing in Google Chrome - Ian Davis

Outsourcing of your data? - Ian Davis

WysiHat is a WYSIWYG JavaScript framework that provides an extensible foundation to design your own rich text editor. WysiHat stays out of your way and leaves the UI design to you. - Ian Davis

"The idea here is that the social structure can help you scale, while still delighting people." - Ian Davis

Would like to see some linked data principles here - Ian Davis

aww. Stick with it, it's changed how I bookmark (or not) completely. - Ian Davis

turns out you can not switch its new behavious off. at least not easily. but there are extensions which at least fix its look-n-feel. am using one now. but it still uses the new algorithm and there is a possibility I will learn how to better use it. - Uldis Bojars

surely the fact they were able to supply the passwords means they are storing the originals somewhere rather than the hashes - Ian Davis