Please note that this is my old blog, to My New Blog is available at https://www.vanirsystems.com/blog

This blog is kept here for archival reasons as it has a lot of interesting old posts that I am sure people would find useful

Heres a quick SPARQL snippet to get a list of the worlds Newspapers along with their political stance. It is only a quick one, with a bit more work its possible to get the English titles of the Newspapers and the Political stances.

SELECT ?Newspaper ?Stance WHERE {
?Newspaper rdf:type dbpedia-owl:Newspaper;
<https://dbpedia.org/property/political> ?Stance}

Plug that into the DBPedia SPARQL interface: https://dbpedia.org/sparql

and get out the result for newspapers and their political perspective.

Tada! Quick bit of Semantic Web goodness!

Cheers,
Daniel

[update]fixed evil wordpress formatting on part of my sparql query[/update]

Hi all,

As many of you will know - I’ll be getting married next year. I’m actually in the process of considering my own “stag party”, but it’ll have to be very very me, which is a celebration of my non-married life, and a celebration of my forthcoming married life.

Therefore I am considering something spiritually uplifting. Something really special for me. Potentially a retreat of some kind, which may involve high elements of spiritual exploration. Both London and Glastonbury have come to mind, but it’s the finer details of what I’d like to do if I go there…. potentially: visit various religious services (Christian, Mystic and otherwise), visit masonic meetings (not just craft-masonry) and do some deep meditation.

Its really quite appealing to me, and what I’d do is probably detail what I’d be doing and when and where, so that anybody who is interested and wants to celebrate/explore with me can do so if they so wish.

Any thoughts/ideas about the specifics of what I could do would be appreciated.