October 2009
8 posts
about to make some chicken soup, exciting Halloween night in
Iberia Brand Incompetence
I have now been waiting over 3 months for compensation from Iberia over the loss of my luggage when I went to Venezuela in July. I had to travel to the airport twice to search my luggage, was deprived of my work clothes and missed a meeting. I had expected them to apologise for the fiasco, compensate me rapidly and incentive me to fly again with some lavish gift like a flight to the Canaries or at...
Ian Condry on Anime in Japan
Interesting talk on this at Goldsmith’s last night - he’s just written a book on Hip-Hop Japan which I have yet to read. One key point was about the ‘soul’ (or damashii in Japanese) of manga artists who still lovingly draw each frame by hand in pencil before digitizing it, even though the frames in between are outsourced to artistic sweatshops in China or the Philippines....
Semiotics and the Semantic Web
I’m currently researching the semantic web with a number of the participants from the Semantic Web conference from June 2009 for a CIM qualification. I am not endorsed by the above body btw, just in touch with them. Most SW people are Computer Science PHDs. I interview them, they talk at length about their work; I nod sagely at mention of ontologies and OWL protocol, they wonder why...
