Author: Kendra

What Shall I Be?, originally uploaded by liamlightyear. This has been a weird time for me professionally. I vacillate between periods of freaking out about not having anything thing to do after July 30th to feeling totally overwhelmed by all the possibilities. The world is wide open! If only the classic board game What Shall…

Blow your mind!, originally uploaded by id-iom. Last week, at the linked data workshop, Richard from Talis said in order to get linked data, you had to change the way you think completely. Stand on your head. Have your mind blown. Well, it finally happened to me. Here I was, sitting in my hotel for…

Qantas Computer Room, Mid 1960s, originally uploaded by glen.h. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend Talis Linked Data Open Day – USA hosted by Talis Consulting. Walking into the event, I seriously had major reservations about linked data and libraries. I think most of skepticism was based in a healthy distrust of (and major…

guilty, originally uploaded by kechambers. It’s time for another round of TRT term voting. What’s going to make the cut this round? Will “Vehicular ad hoc networks” finally find its way into Facet X? (No.) What about “Blended cement?” (Probably). Every time we go through another quarter’s discussions about new terms for the TRT, it…

my function, fibbo, originally uploaded by kendrak. These are two of my first homemade Python functions. For n, you can compute n factorial or Fibonacci. These are simple enough tasks, but it took me a few evenings of deep thought and concentration to get here. I’m not a programmer and training my brain to think…