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MediaWiki Semantic Goodness

I feel like a spectator admiring athletes reading things like the this blog post [Semantic Wikipedia - At last one of dreams is at the verge of coming true.], but an excited spectator, none the less. Wiki is already a fantastic tool for simple (or complex) content management, accessible to anyone within a few minutes… This proposed innovation would add the ability to add, inline, extra relationships which build a more complete (and interoperable) logical structure.

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Web News of the day

Sporting Events cause a drop in ER visits Ok, this is kindof rediculous… Apparently, Americans put off their emergency room visits, or just don’t have as many problems, during major sporting events. I can understand being into sports, but that seems unreal. Helicopters Scour Louisiana Floodwaters (Rita Aftermath) People checking their hurricane-hit homes and towns returned with stories of flooding to the rooftops, coffins and refrigerators bobbing in the water, and stilts where their houses once stood.

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za1 theme in development

I’ve been working on a comprehensive theme, currently called za1 (very exciting name, eh?).  I will be mapping the components of my site into that theme (instead of hacking the themes of the components of my site to look kindof like each other). The themes are driven primarily by CSS, and done in such a way as to allow simple variations in how things should look… there will be an “options” selector on the top-right and it will allow you to easily choose theme options and it saves your options as a cookie (if you allow the cookie) or session variables if your don’t allow the cookies.

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Hurricane Rita wasn’t too bad on Houston it seems

I very briefly talked to mom today and she said her mom (Penny) went back to her home today and things seem normal enough.  She was driving so I didn’t get a full report, but judging by tone-of-voice, everything sounds fine.  More information when I have it (and remember to post).

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Rita Update & Anit-War Protest Story

Rita Update: Rita, as a Category 3 hurricane (120 mph) made landfall at 2:30 a.m. CDT today in extreme southwest Louisiana between Sabine Pass and Johnson’s Bayou, La. Port Arthur, Texas, clocked maximum wind gusts of 116 mph, while Beaumont, Texas, measured 105 mph. Cameron, La., reported a gust to 112 mph before the anemometer failed. Storm surge flooding of up to 15 feet probably occured just east of where the eye thundered ashore.