I went to Hamsey Green school in the 1970s.
Looking in the UK Govt datasets, I see it is listed there with a homepage of ‘http://www.hamsey-green-infant.surrey.sch.uk’ (which doesn’t seem to work).
Some queries I’m trying via the SPARQL dataset (I’ll update this post if I make them work…)
First a general query, from which I found the URL [...]
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My ’70s Schoolin’ (in RDFa)
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Obama for middle-managers
(inspired by the ‘Yes we can’ powerpoint slides…)
We Will…
act – not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth
build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together
restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s [...]
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Family trees, Gedcom::FOAF in CPAN, and provenance
Every wondered who the mother(s) of Adam and Eve’s grand-children were? Me too. But don’t expect SPARQL or the Semantic Web to answer that one! Meanwhile, …
You might nevetheless care to try the Gedcom::FOAF CPAN module from Brian Cassidy. It can read Gedcom, a popular ‘family history’ file format, and turn it into RDF (using [...]
Also posted in Essays, FOAF, Politics, Semantic Web, Technology, foaf4lib, ggg Tagged familyhistory, gedcom, History, journalism, provenance, trust 3 Comments
Underground Victorian street? in Bristol?
Hidden away beneath Lawrence Hill lies a secret world – an underground Victorian street stretching from Ducie Road to the Packhouse pub.
Local historian Dave Stephenson finds out more.
For many years I had heard tales of a Victorian street abandoned beneath busy Lawrence Hill. To add substance to the legend there were people who claimed to [...]
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“totally obliterate them”
What obliterate means…
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(Back to) The Future of Interactive Media
The Internet is beginning a fundamental transition into the broadband, commercial information superhighway of the future. Today, the Internet offers immediate opportunities for commercial applications by connecting millions of PC, Macintosh and workstation users with businesses and organizations around the world. Tomorrow, as network capabilities and performance increase, this global link will deliver interactive services, [...]
History time
From the O’Reilly Factor, Sept 12.
Ron Paul: … so I see the Iranians as acting logically and defensively. We’ve been fighting the Iranians since 1953. We overthrew their government through the CIA in 1953. We were allies with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and we encouraged him to invade Iran…
Bill O’Reilly: Allright, so I [...]
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Bottles and teargas in Piazza Navona
I’ve just posted 100 or so photos from the anti-Bush protest in Rome last night. Zac and I were on the way to a restaurant when we stumbled into the protest in Piazza Navona, just by the Senate where Bush apparently was in meetings. We wandered around the square taking photos of the protesters, then [...]
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