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Running Canyonlands

arriving from moab, the next stop was canyonlands national park. we picked the needles district because it has far more trails than the island in the sky (which is mainly good for viewpoints, but not so much for activities). canyonlands'... Read more →

Running Arches

escaping the arctic conditions in bryce canyon, we arrived in moab looking forward to warm and dry weather. we were not disappointed, moab greeted us with blue skies and really warm weather, quite a shock (a pleasant one) after running... Read more →

Running Bryce Canyon

arriving from zion cayon pretty late, we were surprised by the low temperatures in bryce canyon. there even were light snow showers, not exactly the thing we were looking for. temperatures were forecast to be below freezing at night, remaining... Read more →

Running Zion Canyon

after last year's running trip to yosemite valley, mono lake, king's canyon, death valley, and sequoia, this year's trip started in las vegas heading east, visiting utah and arizona. first stop was zion canyon, where we were greeted by dark... Read more →

*OA Overload

I guess I am suffering from *OA overload. Trying to understand landscapes which are still developing and where religious and partisan statements happen frequently can be hard. Or maybe it's impossible. I am seeing too many *OAs these days. This... Read more →

X(HT)ML Fragment Identifiers

The recently published HTML 5 draft does not change anything regarding HTML fragment identifiers. They are still limited to IDs only (with as alternative for backwards-compatibility). This means that any reference into an HTML page depends on how... Read more →

XO & XP

Microsoft will be supporting the XO laptop, also known as the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) laptop. so far, the machine only was available with linux and a user interface which, well, is not that easy to use, at least... Read more →

LocWeb 2008 Proceedings

after spending considerable amounts of time and energy to not only organize the LocWeb 2008 workshop at WWW2008, but to also get it published in the ACM Digital Library, i am happy to report that the LocWeb 2008 proceedings of... Read more →

Integration with REST

i am currently working on a paper about loose coupling (basically trying to figure out what it really means, because everybody always does it, but nobody says what they mean by that), and this of course happens in the context... Read more →