Category Archives: General

Digital Camcorder Considerations

GPS/Geo, Hardware, Image Description

We want to get a digital camcorder.

There’s a wedding coming up, some travelling, later perhaps more interesting “subjects”, and then of course there’s the gadget dimension.

Among the criteria for selection are:

  • Relative ease of use: OK, I’m geeky, but devices with less than 85 keys are often impossible to figure out…
  • Dependability: We’re prepared to back up to HD and other media, but we still want to be able to trust the media.
  • Quality: The raw footage should be raw, not compressed. The images are more important than the sound.
  • Future proof: I know, not possible in this world, but it seems it’d be OK to go for HD?
  • Comfortable: Small and handy, likely to just be available and ready to go when needed.

Currently on the short list is the Sony HDR-HC3. Compared to its predecessor, the HC1, there are improvements as well as changes to the worse, but overall it seems it’s progress.

What to do?

ObSemWebAngle: Ideally, it should also include GPS integration and other ways of content description! ;-)

SFSW 2 and Reboot 8

SemWeb, Travelling

The 2nd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) is getting closer.

Deadline for submissions is March 30th, 2006.

Also, this year’s version of reboot, that’s 8.0, has been announced.

For reboot there really isn’t a deadline, but the planning has only just begun, and there’s a discount if you register before April 19th.

I likely won’t be able to attend either of them, although perhaps I might try to squeeze in a day of reboot and perhaps some meetups just before. As for SFSW, it’d be more than nice to go to Montenegro, and since I’m actually blessed to be on the preliminary program committee, I really should. I won’t be able to make the deadline though, and it seems the workshop itself doesn’t fit the calendar either…

EOR

General

Finally.

This weblog should — at least if you are reading this — no longer be write-only, it should be readable from outside my private network…

Of course, that also means that I should start writing.

Morale: Trust noone, especially not Tele2 (but for once, TDC came through, and in less than a week, too).

PS: If you are still not seeing what you expect around this part of the web, please wait for DNS changes to propagate.

QOTD

Blogging, Humour

But sometimes the quote isn’t enough.

Sometimes, however, it is.

Other times, a link to the origin is enough.

PS: Should you, at some point over the next week or so, no longer be able to reach this or adjacent sites — don’t worry, it’s temporary due to a relocation, but it might last for a few weeks.

Uncle Squared

FOAF, General, WordPress

Things haven’t been less hectic since my last progress report — I’m now officially entitled to the title “Uncle”, as my sister yesterday finally gave birth to Silke, her lovely daughter and my wonderful niece:

Silke, Gry og Hans

To top it off, (Aunt) Katrine’s brother and his wife came home from China tonight, bringing with them their new daughter Isabel, just as lovely and wonderful:

Isabel

In other news, Katrine and I entered the bubbly housing market — we bought a house on Lellinge Allé, just outside central Copenhagen. We will be moving after October 1st, after which you’ll all be more than welcome to stop by! :-)

Elsewhere, Katrina is in the news and photo streams, and Tim Bray’s retrospect about Nawlins reminded me of when I was there, specifically of when I was walking down Basin Street and got “hustled” by a guy who claimed to be able to tell “where I got my shoes” for $10. Since I brought them from Denmark, I figured I’d be safe accepting the challenge, but he simply replied “On your feet”. Laughing hard, I just had to fork it over.

ObSemWeb: Prompted by Danny Ayers, I finally got around to releasing a new version of the FOAF Output plugin. It’s now at 1.17, with a few fixes and tweaks added since the last release (but still not tested with WP 1.5 and later).