A quirk of fate means i’m co-chairing a W3C Workshop on Schema 1.0 User Experiences in *June*. Should be nothing but fun. Bring out your schemas!

Tags: w3c, schemaexperiences

The W3C have published the minutes from the W3C Technical Plenary which includes photos from the Flickr Pool. All in all, a nice record of the day.

Tags: w3c, techplen

These arrived in the post this morning, 1″ badges made from some of my squared circle pictures. Thanks courtneyp.

I like Edd Dumbill’s SOA: Shame on analysts list, but thought new year predictions using the term “the year of web services” went further back than 2002, so a quick search gave 380 odd links, including:

1. The year 2000 will be the year of Web services
   

   The year 2000 will be the year of Web services,” proclaimed Andy Roberts, CTO of Bowstreet, and first to the podium at Xnet, Boston 1999.

2. The year 2001 has been the year of Web services.
   

   Beyond Web Services: Sun ONE and Service in Demand

   Actually not too hypey, but then we have Edd’s:

3. Bowstreet predicts 2002 will be the ‘year of web services’
   

   PORTSMOUTH, NH, October 25, 2001 - Bowstreet (www.bowstreet.com) today hailed the release of Microsoft(R) Windows XP, saying it will help make 2002 the “year of web services.”

4. 2003: The Year of Web Services
   

   A report from Giga Information Group Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., says Web services technology and related architectures have moved through the “early adopter” phase and will become more mainstream by early 2003.

5. The stars will align in 2004 to make Web services a significant success story
   

   A happy confluence of technology and politics has convinced me that this year will be the year when Web services begins to reach critical mass as a low-cost alternative to proprietary middleware

And so it continues ..

Yesterday was the Spring solstice. It was also DiloMar05 on Fickr. My contribution documents a dull day on the phone at the office and then home. Enjoy!

It’s funny which ideas travel and which don’t. Tonight I relayed to a Frenchman and two Americans how my son was attending an ‘International’ event at his school dressed as a “French Onion Seller”. Judging from their bemused reactions, it appears the Brit perception of the archetypal Frenchman wearing a stripy T-shirt and beret and pushing a bicycle strung with onions hadn’t reached their foreign ears.

Googling for French onion seller isn’t that rewarding, but funnily enough many of the top links relate to the North East such as an episode of When the Boat Comes In, and this amazing archive footage of Newcastle in the 1960s: We Know Our Onions - French Onion Sellers in Tyneside ©NRFTA). Just love that Bretonne/Geordie accent, “why aye, mon cherie”, “au revoir, pet”.

What Famous Leader Are You?, via Chris

TP05 Boston is a set of 210 odd photographs I took during the W3C 2005 Technical Plenary week in Boston. There are also tons of great photos on Flickr tagged with techplen. Finally, I’ve set up a shared pool for favourite photos of the event.

So i’m on the last but one slide of my presentation at the start of the W3C Technical Plenary day, when an IM box pops-up “Lucy Downey, signing in.”. Embarassed, I made a comment, “oh that’s my wife back home in England, hi Lucy!” at which point Lucy typed “hello”. It got a nice big laugh.