I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. I can remember being so upset I couldn’t sleep because I had to go to bed. Maybe this has bled into the present. The funny part of it all, is I’d much rather not be asleep most of the time. My wife has always confused me with… Read More
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I have come to the conclusion, after being without a car for five years, that travel by rail in the UK is just about the most infuriating process you can undertake on a regular basis. Every day, one of my 6 train journeys to or from work will fail in some way or other. Either… Read More
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Tags: broken, communication, me, rail network, Train travel, trains, Travel, United Kingdom
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Well, I and the wife traveled to Limoges in France to Amsterdam over the last two weeks. In France, I had the misfortune of being almost completely without the ability to smell or taste anything thanks to a lingering cold which also incapacitated me on the final Friday of the trip. Our French hosts cooked… Read More
I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts. I’ve been exploring this a bit in the context of the Semantic Web over on Nodalities. Please feel free to have… Read More
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Tags: abstract, blogging, concepts, conduit metaphor, ideas, me, semantic, Semantic Web
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It’s the transition which hits you. From begging your interlocutor to understand you—to even bend a little in your direction—to being understood so effortlessly but still being in an unfamiliar place. This is traveling from France to Amsterdam. In France, making an effort to speak French is mandatory; yet still everyone looks at you as… Read More
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Tags: Amsterdam, coffee, dialogue, editorial, France, interesting, me, Travel, United Kingdom
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