The Bristol Amnesty International Group has a bookshop on Gloucester Road. I walk past it and can’t help but beachcomb through the 20p shelf they have in the street, despite the dangerous state of my overloaded bookshelves.
From yesterday’s semi-random purchase, Ernest Bevin – Unskilled Labourer and World Statesman, by Mark Stephens:
There were a number [...]
The Jena ARQ SPARQL engine has been very rapidly integrated into Protégé. Nice work from Holger Knublauch, and from Andy Seaborne who explained how Protégé’s native RDF Java structures could manifest themselves via Jena interfaces so that the ARP query engine could work against Protégé data. He also gave a handy overview of the [...]
As Mrs. Nakamura stood watching her neighbour, everything flashed whiter than any white she had ever seen. She did not notice what happened to the man next door; the reflex of a mother set her in motion toward her children. She had taken a single step (the house was 1,350 yards, or three quarters of [...]
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GIS and Spatial Extensions with MySQL.
MySQL 4.1 introduces spatial functionality in MySQL. This article describes some of the uses of spatial extensions in a relational database, how it can be implemented in a relational database, what features are present in MySQL and some simple examples.
I’m hoping to understand the commonalities between this and PostGIS. [...]
An old debate – how much is it acceptable to “tweak” an image’s colour – resurfaced on BAGnewsNotes. The article drew attention (amongst other things) to the colouring of an image from Iraq:
When I mention this following point, some people take me to task for calling out a standard — if fairly recent — [...]
Anyways, so I went to the internet café and did my regular tour: raed in the middle, riverbend, etc etc..and then I was bored again. I left the internet café heading towards the financial department again. [...]
“come with us, we have some questions please†they said, and I went with them, searching for answers [...]