Comments on: We could crawl http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/ never starts to amaze Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Phil http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-344 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:32:52 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-344 You’re a wuss, Lightfoot, what are you? You’re not the first person to stall at the WSDL paragraph. I think there’s something a bit duplicitous about it. The guy assembles this great car-crash of acronyms, as if to say “look at this tottering tower of balderdash”, but he’s only really talking to people who already know and understand the field – everyone else will take one look at it and think “aargh, a tottering tower of balderdash, get it away from me!”

Have you tried skipping to part 3? (he added doggedly). It’s an outsider’s view – and probably a rather reductive one – of a field you know a lot better than I do.

]]> By: Chris Lightfoot http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-340 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:24:45 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-340 I tried to read your article — honestly I did — but my eyes started to glaze over when you mentioned WSDL and I didn’t really get past the first mention of the “semantic web”. I admit this is a personal weakness….

On the subject of ANPR: well, I laughed out loud at, “I am grateful to Mr Edwards for bringing these issues to the attention of the Home Office” — are we supposed to believe she’d never heard of it before?

Anyway, of course she wouldn’t admit that ANPR is a “Big Brother” technology. Remember: they’re good people — they say so themselves.

]]> By: Alex http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-339 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:03:28 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-339 I’m beginning to think we ought to launch a last-ditch effort to save the Safety Elephant. More worrying than John Reid, think HAZEL BLEARS as Home Secretary.

]]> By: Phil http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-336 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:50:23 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-336 That reminds me of my day job! Take a look at this (particularly the third section).

]]> By: Chris Lightfoot http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-335 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:53:16 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/we-could-crawl/#comment-335 Ah, I wondered whether it was the same Phil Edwards!

Changes to electoral boundaries are a constant pain in the arse in my day job — either I’m in the middle of updating our databases to deal with a change, or I’m worrying about how much work it’ll be next time I do — but for a (slightly technical) flavour of how irksome this is, see this or this

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