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Will children [use the Semantic Web]? Yes, of course, they will do it.

I hope that the interface, the human interface, for the Semantic Web will be simple, clear and easy to use, but if it is a bit difficult and complicated then children will probably do it first.

— Tim Berners-Lee, in ISWC 2005 podcast.

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Before switching to Linux I had a stint with the Bat! for about 10 months. It is by far the most USEFUL email client I have used. I was able to create boiler plate text for a variety of situations that was easy to add to an email, filter mail into folders…but also have those folders play unique sounds (or wav files) when I received messages in them, search very quickly through all my messages, and probably a dozen other cool features that I’ve since forgotten about. It was fast and lightweight, never taking up more than 6MB of memory while running.

I wish the Bat! was ported to Linux, and I’ve made suggestions to the developers that they do so. I would gladly pay for a second copy on that OS.

— comment by dbrick (see May 6, 2003 12:58 PM) to “The Bat!” article on O’Reilly Databases

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I’ve found myself to be supremely productive when I’ve been without net access but with a local repository. No distractions + commit access = yay.

But that probably just says something about how much trouble I have focusing. :-)

— Ask Bjørn Hansen in Subversion Dev discussion “Re: excellent GIT video”

“ In NZ it’s quicker to ship our network traffic by carrier-pigeon due to the poor telecommunications infrastructure. In NZ, broadband just means a pigeon with a bigger wing-span.

— in a Subversion Dev list discussion “Re: excellent GIT video”

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Of course I totally agree with all of Nova’s SemWeb related predictions. Interesting one about the future of Facebook. Worth watching…check it out.