I started poking around with Drupal's RDF module last night and ended up staying up VERY late. RDF is one of the languages supporting the semantic web and the semantic web may be, or already is depending on your view, the next great thing on the Internet. The idea of the semantic web is to leverage all the content on the web as structured, meaningful data.

I've been playing with Twitter (and other social networking and mobile toys) to try to "get with it." So far, Twitter seems one of the most pointless things I've tried though there is probably some profound principles around why people flock to this sort of instant communication. Here's a funny video that I think captures some of my thoughts about Twitter:

If you liked this, here's part 2.

Drupal email was failing. SELinux Administration GUI to the rescue. All kinds of great settings including httpd_can_sendmail to get around SELinux restrictions. What I don't understand is why I was not seeing any log entries or alerts that SELinux was blocking this?

I've always had trouble with selinux. Don't get me wrong, security is very important and I try my best to get it right. However, I sometimes have trouble getting things just to work, and security can make it even more difficult. Is it not working because I haven't set it up correctly, or is the problem that I don't have the right access. It's true that security IS part of setting something up correctly, a VERY important part. However, I often have to remove any security restrictions to divide issues between functionality and access.