"The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented." as they say on the site.

A bit off topic, to remind myself where and how things stand...
I am still trying to introduce myself to the exciting world of semantic web. Still looking for a definition that I could relate to. The latest I have dug up was that there two ways to deal with information that currently available on WWW and constantly added to it.
One is to use sophisticated technics to parse existing text on WWW and process it using probably even more complicated technologies (which is what search engines are doing today).

After looking for some time how to add IIS to Vista Ultimate I ran into troubles starting the server. Of course as soon as I found it on my own, I also found a detailed article .

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process ..."

What do you know it was the truth. Skype has an option to use ports 80 and 443 under Tools->Options->Advanced->Connection. I unchecked it, restarted Skype and IIS went alive!

After uncommenting extensions

extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_mhash.dll

in php.ini. I started getting getting Apache errors

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\php-5.2.1\\ext\\php_curl.dll' - 
The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\php-5.2.1\\ext\\php_mhash.dll' - 
The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0

And of course the module would not load. As somebody pointed out there are two ways to make it work:
1. Copying libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll, and libmhash.dll to C:\windows\system32

At the heart of semantic web is knowledge representation via RDF. There is a content rich W3C site for all RDF purposes.
Start my RDF explorations there ...

Some of the projects associated with semantic web:

• The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
• MusicBrainz
• RdfAndSql wiki page
• RdfCalendar wiki page

Among other many great pages this is from the father of the web and semantic web in plain english.
Business Model for the Semantic Web

I read somewhere that semantic web is an evolving collection of knowledge that cab be understood by computers. That understanding certainly implies that the vast knoweledge can be consumed and processed by computers for human benefit. Things like ticket ordering according with changes in your schedule, investment strategy adjustments, weight watching if you scale talks to your computer all can be done very intellegently utilizing the vast sematic web.
I find it very inspirational, but knowledge representaion schemes, ontologies, tools that extract and process data published on the web to turn it into semantic web take time to understand and digest.

I had in "body" tag code for onresize"myResizeFunction()". In Firefox the event fires once per window resize, IE on the other hand fires the event multiple times. And since in myResizeFunction the page was modifying the body of the page I was running into some lengthy repetetive, and sometimes infinite loops. To avoid it code needed to react only to one onResize event firing.

var resizeIE; // declare at the top of the page

and then in order to respond only to one event:

if ( document.addEventListener ){ // for Firefox
   window.addEventListener("resize" , myResizeFunction, false)

Just posting a link here to Microsoft's article on testing AJAX application.
Looks interesting but gotta find the time to read it yet.

Dr. Dobb's published a nice article on AJAX debugging. You can find it here

Apparently there is a vacuuming robot out there :-)
I really would like to get it. Some day ...