Java Agent DEvelopment Framework JADE v2.6
released today.

This should be useful somewhere : trigram tables - relative frequencies of three-letter sequences in the Brown Corpus of Standard American English.

The guy behind it John Cowan is working on a few interesting things, probably the oddest being Lojban, a constructed human language based on predicate logic (Esperanto for geeks ;-)
It's like a more foreign but human version of Seth Russell's SemEnglish.

::://dotdragnet//::: asp bits - not really semweb stuff, but might help me get this site in order (though all these MS-based folks seem to use VBScript - eeeurgh!). Roll on the day when I can afford 24/7 connection...

Russell Beattie just blogged me, in response to a comment I made about Italian Euros (in response to his blog). He's right about the coins being hopeless - real commitee stuff. The 1 cent is a joke - I don't mean in terms of it's value, just it's too small for adult human fingers.
Well I've now had a look at the Spanish Euro, and I stand by what I said in my mail - da Vinci's "Bloke With Too Many Arms and Legs" has to be preferable to a portrait of King Carlos I de Borbon y Borbon (unless perhaps you happen to be the old Queen de Borbon y Borbon...).

I forgot to ask him if he'd seen an Isola de Perijil Euro yet...

BLOGGER - How to manage your site with Blogger, XML, and ASP - ah, this might be the easy way of sorting out the XML on this blog (and getting RSS out too).

Amazon.com Web Services folllowing Google's lead, nice little developers kit.

XML.com: RDF Software [Jun. 16, 2001] not seen this before - even mentions my RDF2SVG thang.

Edutella - probably blogged this before, but just so I don't forget : "This project is a multi-staged effort to scope, specify, architect and implement an RDF-based metadata infrastructure for JXTA." JXTA being Java peer-to-peer stuff.

developerWorks: XML zone : XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF by Edd Dumbill. FOAF intro - Edd's also done an IRC bot. I'm a little surprised the foaf vocabulary (danbri & libby's originally, I believe) hasn't found itself in the press more often - it's a good route into RDF ideas, clear what 's being said. I would propose some subclasses - FOAE, friend of an editor, where Edd, Uche etc cross pollinate xml.com, ibm.com and countless weblogs...

IcyTec Group - IcyDraw SVG-backed drawing tool, looks good.

pMachine - Publish Your Universe! feature-rich blog tool (free for personal use!).

SwingSpecials amazing, I keep ending up back at this place when I'm looking for obscure Swingisms - this time it was how to do a titleless JInternalFrame...

GCC Hacker - Michael DuPont's semantic web - related blog. He's just added Seth's Sailor to his cvs area at sourceforge.