e-mail spam, who doesn't know them.

while deleting the spam in my dfki-work inbox, this e-mail survived the 10milliseconds of fame and made it here:
subject: Re: jovedVzlAGRA
... [some viagra price list now] ...
... [a web link i won't place here and I would never click]....

and then a personal note from the spammer:
wife you say? Can anything be done about that? Let me think-yes-
something can be done. Out there, in those so-called civilized planets
nothing could be done. Here it can. For I am Svinjar - and Svinjar can

I can really learn from him.
Here it can!!!! For He is Svinjar, Svinjar the Spammer!!! He, not from the civilized planets, but from "there", where HE can!

For I am Svinjar - and Svinjar can. Could say that forever.

Luckily I believe in Jesus, and not investing my illegally earned spamming revenue in hallucinogenic drugs to write weird messages in my spam. Hey, Viagra sellers - you hire morons to make your mass e-mails, ever thought about that your money invested in spam marketing is going to Svinjar?

I am sitting in front of my beloved 12" iBook, called "Eden".


I love it so much that I installed and use a billion of productiveness and communication tools, like plazes, iTunes, bluetooth, wireless, VPN, Adium, ... and ... hm ... weren't there more? Where are those icons?

Yes, macOsX has a design flaw: when you have many apps running and they place icons in the icon-bar to the upper right - the icons get lost. Applications like safari have such a big menu that the icons are all hidden, bad appl.

Thanks to iBlogging.de story on this problem which uses a good-googleable language, I was able to find a nice solution: the application "no menu bar". This app has only one goal: nothing. So that I can refind all those icons I didn't see for months, ah, there is plazes.... finally gets those precious pixel spaces on my screen it deserves.

nomenubar

Bullocks!

I googled for movie ontologies and all I got was powerpoints.

In what world am I?

then I found this:

• https://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/VRP/Examples/moviedatabase.rdf# - hey, are you serious? an IP address as namespace?
• and the IMDB mapping for RDF which luckily my office mate Gunnar Grimnes

please, God, put me into the parallel universe where people do indeed make the semantic web.

There is a congres on "Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien" in Darmstadt at ZGDV on 19th October 2006.

There are many interesting people from Germany giving talks there, Benjamin Novack from the hacker side, Georg Lausen, Andreas Kupfer, Michael Stollberg from Innsbruck, Torsten Priebe from Capgemini Austria, Holger Rath from Empolis, Achim Steinacker from intelligent views, and Leo Sauermann from myself.

If you are a student of university, reduced conference fee for academics is 120€/290€.

• download the Flyer!

link zur digitalcouch

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Am 7. August 2006 ist es wieder soweit. Nachdem wir uns zur WM ausgepowert und den Sommer durchgeschwitzt haben, geht es voller Enthusiasmus und neuer Energie wieder zur Sache: The Great Escape 8.

Wir haben neue Ideen, so freut euch auf:

iTrip-Disco am 19. August - Motoren schon mal warm laufen lassen. Alle Informationen gibts bei The Great Escape.
Die Herbst 100 Tage Bar - und wir sind dabei. Werdet Teil und öffnet die Herzen.
Was war was wird? WM - vorher, nachher. KL - vorher, nachher.
Affen im ZackZack - ein Hoch auf die Giulietta Bar!

Also los Leute: Testosteronpflaster aufgeklebt und ab in die Glocke zum Klingelbimmeln.

Haltet es nicht geheim!

The Great Escape 8
Montag, 7. August 2006
20.00 Uhr im Glockencafe

Last weekend Ingrid and I have gone on a shopping tour to Strasbourg, getting some clothes for ourselves, and especially for Burningman.

The goal was a nice suite for mr Luther Blisset, chair of the INCONSISDENT 2006 conference, and a Bikini for the Lady, which will serve as a basis for flowers that will be sewed on there.



Clickr on the flickr picr and watch the notes there by pushing your mouse across the pic. We have to buy these clothes for Luther Blisset, who will chair the INCONSISDENT, hope this somehow works.

And yes, I wrote some more notes on the wikitravel page of Strasbourg, for the next shopper after us.

We created a sample Eclipse RCP application that shows how to use sesame and a bit of gnowsis inside SWT and eclipse. We plan to see if we can benefit from Eclipse RCP in Nepomuk. more about this hack here on the gnowsis site.



This is what we did:
We started at 17:30 by downloading Eclipse 3.2 and slavishly following the Hello World Tutorial here.



ok, all worked, the empty "hello World" deployment thingy with .exe file and so on weights 7MB. wuff but ok.

Then Leo decided to rename the packages from "semanticdesktop" to "com.example.semanticdesktop" and that was the last time we saw our hello world. shoots, restart.

After Benny got the control, he changed the plugins first window from title "Hello World" to "Semantic Desktop".

Hours later....

ok, we try now the "mail demo" and extend it with a RDF view showing hte pimo tree. First problem: we don't want to import openrdf directly but instead import it as OSGI bundle (woa, cool). Hm, the best approach seems the wizard "plugin from existing jar archives". that generates useful output.

Result at 19:30: we managed to include Sesame and gnowsis as Eclipse OSGI bundles and were able to load the PIMO ontology language from a local file and display it in a tree. Its a lot of work but it looks cool. So, Beer now.