Well. A blog. About everything I find interesting. Orginal, huh?
Nov 9, 2004
Going to Prague, hunting dinosaurs (Dino Story ctd.)
In the background of me going to Prague to take a GRE test (casue I need if for my PhD and they don't have fast computer based testing in Poland...long story and irreleveant as this blog goes), I learned more about one of the dictionaries coffin nails, namely the Wikitionary.
What is so great about Wikitionary? ATM, nothing much. Project spawned off Wikipedia in Dec 2002 is new and defiently 'work in progress'. Much of the entries I check didn't exist (i.e. didn't exist before I added them ;). But the potential...imagining entering ANY word, and getting its: etymology, definition, grammar notes, pronouciation, quotatons, synonyms, antonyms, derived and related terms and last but not least translation into all existing languages (including conlangs).
Queer Women in the Arts, an 8M celebration
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Presented by Art+Feminism in partnership with Wikimedia LGBT+ This Women’s
History Month we organized a very special panel followed by a workshop in
partne...
New data files for analysis of Wikimedia traffic
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Today I released two new json files: one file with demographics data from
World Bank, a second file with a subset of the first, augmented with
Wikimedia pa...
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24!
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My book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, blockchain, Ethereum and
smart contracts will be released Monday 24 July 2017. You can pre-order it
for ...
Telling knitting from crochet
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It came as a surprise three years ago when I started crocheting to hear
people call it "knitting". Nobody who crochets or knits confuses the two,
and mos...
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