In a modern GUI (lets take Windows), you should be able to right click on any window and be able to grab some rdf from any app (like an mp3 player and the rdf would be what song it is playing)and be able to paste that rdf into another app. What that "other app" does is independent of where you got the RDF - though of course, presumably some of that RDF that is recognized by the receiving application. Unrecognized RDF assertions would just be ignored.

And then maybe even the apps can let you configure how to map application-specific state into RDF (and back to application-specific state or functionality).

I don't think I have unreasonable requirements. I want an XML editor that does validation as I edit, that validates against XML Schema, and validates documents with elements and attributes from multiple namespaces. It should run on Windows.

I'm doing this for producing a document with SOAP 1.2 messages and various extension headers. I've had all sorts of problems with what used to be my favorite tool - XMLSpy. I just can't get it to reliably validate documents across mutiple schema.

Today, I found XRay2 from Architag. A free download (with registration). I'm still trying it out, but it does just what I need in an intuitive way. Load all the schema in the validator, and it builds a catalog from the declarations in the schema, and you can then build an XML document using all the namespaces defined in that catalog. Simple, intuitive, and just what I need.

Kevin Marks suggests using BlogTags to make topics "emerge" from the wild wild-web. The idea is neat. Simply insert a WikiWord (that is unlikely to get confused with a normal word, because it is at least two words smushed together) into your blog entry, or web content.

Then, when others want to find links on this topic, they use the same WikiWord in their favorite search engine. The search will have both high recall and high precision! Great idea!

I've decided that this blogging thing is something I should really try out.

Since I've decided to actively support the Dean 2004 campaign, and specifically the Hack4Dean effort, which uses Drupal, I'm trying out this Drupal thing.

We'll see how it goes!