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David Sky

David Sky

Computer techie and photoblogger in Toronto, Ontario Canada interested in SQL, semantic web, TED videos, and local goings-on.
@elijahmanor I followed @brenelz just a BIT too soon, and was follower # 999. His HTML5 overview is great, thanks.
Starting the week off right with Gryfe's bagels direct from Bathurst St - and NO, I haven't sold out to ads!
Sunny warm November day here in Toronto - perfect weather for raking the leaves!
Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
"Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands." - David Sky
Google Wave Bot / Gadget Development - http://withwaves.com/
Google Wave developers with a number of Robots and gadgets. - David Sky
Finished listening to 'Innovating Product Strategy through Game Play' BayCHI podcast - load the PDF slides, too http://www.baychi.org/calenda...
Bringing the Power of Regular Expression Matching to SQL | developerWorks - http://www.ibm.com/develop...
An older article on "how to extend DB2 to integrate a library for regular expression matching into DB2, thereby making the task much easier and more efficient" - David Sky
Innovating Product Strategy through Game Play BayCHI - http://www.baychi.org/calenda...
Innovation Games are serious multi-person games with a specific business goal. As an example Luke Hohmann "takes the model of pruning a tree as a metaphor for making a product successful, because pruning is necessary for a fruit tree to bear fruit and product teams have limited resources and competing priorities." See the slides from the talk at http://www.baychi.org/calenda... ( Recorded Tuesday, May 12, 2009 ) - David Sky
Today's photo: the amazing @Glen_Hansard and @TheSwellSeason on stage at Massey Hall in Toronto this week: http://www.seemsartless.com/index...
Re: Swell Season with Glen Hansard - Massey Hall :: seems Artless - http://www.seemsartless.com/index...
"Here's a link to the Toronto poster for the show: http://www.theswellseason.com/news..." - David Sky
November 6, 2009 - "Swell Season with Glen Hansard" - http://www.seemsartless.com/index...
By far the highlight of the Glen Hansard/The Swell Season concert this week in Toronto http://www.youtube.com/watch... Wow
By far the highlight of the Glen Hansard/The Swell Season concert this week in Toronto http://ping.fm/zLPts Wow
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DB2 problem determination using db2top utility | developerWorks - http://www.ibm.com/develop...
"Learn about the advantages the db2top tool offers, and see how to use it for monitoring and troubleshooting. In addition, you can follow two sample cases that illustrate how to use this tool to diagnose real problems in a production environment." - David Sky
Google Wave changes everything you know about agile collaboration and technical documentation | Grefiti blog - http://greyfiti.com/?p=91
Thoughts on how Google Wave could eventually impact collaborative documentation editing and review. - David Sky
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave - http://completewaveguide.com/guide...
Looks like a good introduction to Google Wave - David Sky
Just found @greyfiti and his blog doing a search on Google Wave and Dita XML. No answers there, but some good ideas: http://greyfiti.com/
Off to see Alex Nicolaou speak about #googlewave at #CASCON this morning.
November 5, 2009 - "Eglinton Park Red and Green" - http://www.seemsartless.com/index...
Good #CASCON talk today UI for Visual Analysis & Monitoring in BI http://lgrammel.blogspot.com/2009... with related URLs at http://delicious.com/seemsar...
'XKCD: Volume 0' is sticking it to traditional publishers | Los Angeles Times - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketc...
Great to see XKCD take a less than traditional approach to book publishing, but "sticking it' to traditional publishers?! - David Sky
Hans Rosling | Profile on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/speaker...
Hans Rosling's list of data visualization talks at the TED conference. - David Sky
Colin Ware | Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire - http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab...
Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab which is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. - David Sky
Stephen Few | Perceptual Edge - http://www.perceptualedge.com/
Perceptual Edge focuses on the tools and techniques of visual business intelligence to help you make better use of your valuable information assets. Including details on his new book, "Now You See It" - David Sky
Seeing In Four Dimensions | Science News - http://www.sciencenews.org/view...
Mathematicians, freed in their imaginations from physical constraints, can conjure up descriptions of objects in many more dimensions than that. Points in a plane can be described with pairs of numbers, and points in space can be described with triples. Why not quadruples, or quintuples, or more? - David Sky
CASCON Workshop on "User Interfaces for Visual Analysis and Monitoring in Business Intelligence". - http://lgrammel.blogspot.com/2009...
Announcement of the agenda and speakers for the Cascon presentation - David Sky
Getting Big Things Done in Government | Harvard Business IdeaCast 169 - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/ideacas...
William Eggers, global research director at Deloitte and coauthor of If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government. - David Sky
How GE Does Reverse Innovation - Harvard Business IdeaCast 168 - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/ideacas...
Vijay Govindarajan, director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business and coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article How GE Is Disrupting Itse - David Sky
Autumn colours on the ground in Eglinton Park here in Toronto: http://wholemap.com/map...
November 4, 2009 - "Eglinton Park Yellow and Red" - http://www.seemsartless.com/index...
Visualizing the Interactions of Famous Movie Characters | information aesthetics - http://infosthetics.com/archive...
The fabulous xkcd comic strip summarizes the character groupings across the Lord of the Rings. - David Sky
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