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Just finished my first Spanish novel, which is a landmark of sorts. It was the first Capitán Alatriste novel - a Three Musketeers style romp. So I expect all my new Spanish slang is three or four hundred years out of date. I'm finlly getting the hang of the more common tenses at least.
It's been a very good few months - several visitors (and Test Match Specal) have kept us in Englishness, and the summer here's been warm and bright. We had a good week in the North, clambering up mountains, watching lots of Griffon Vultures and a single Chamois, driving some pretty ridiculous roads and introducing ourselves to several very impressive trees.
Work has been much more interesting than the last "aargh, they just don't know what I do!" post made it seem. The OntoGrid project stuff went very well so I think they realise I'd be better used than wasted. Since this is the continent 90% of my colleagues are away for most of the month, so I've been spending the last couple of weeks writing a paper and prototyping some quite interesting metadata store interfaces. It always amazes me how quickly I can work when I am doing everything. When there's just one person going from use cases through to development things just happen so much more quickly. Once people are back I'll be nosing around several of our larger projects and explain how it could all be done much better if done semantically. Should be good.
And to close - a question: Do you recall a kids' book with a line like "My teacher said it was a matter of semantics, but my Dad says that Semantics is just the name of the cat next door"? I tried a bit of internet searching but couldn't locate it.
It's been a very good few months - several visitors (and Test Match Specal) have kept us in Englishness, and the summer here's been warm and bright. We had a good week in the North, clambering up mountains, watching lots of Griffon Vultures and a single Chamois, driving some pretty ridiculous roads and introducing ourselves to several very impressive trees.
Work has been much more interesting than the last "aargh, they just don't know what I do!" post made it seem. The OntoGrid project stuff went very well so I think they realise I'd be better used than wasted. Since this is the continent 90% of my colleagues are away for most of the month, so I've been spending the last couple of weeks writing a paper and prototyping some quite interesting metadata store interfaces. It always amazes me how quickly I can work when I am doing everything. When there's just one person going from use cases through to development things just happen so much more quickly. Once people are back I'll be nosing around several of our larger projects and explain how it could all be done much better if done semantically. Should be good.
And to close - a question: Do you recall a kids' book with a line like "My teacher said it was a matter of semantics, but my Dad says that Semantics is just the name of the cat next door"? I tried a bit of internet searching but couldn't locate it.