http://www.davelemen.com/ Enterprise Search Geek en-us dlemen@gmail.com 2009-10-05T16:57:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2009/10/this_blog_looks_dead.html ...because it is dead! Blame it on Twitter. You can follow me there.... 3971@http://www.davelemen.com/ 2009-10-05T16:57:59-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2008/10/jen_is_40_today.html Several of her friends contributed videos to the celebration. Jen posted her thoughts on the last year, the year to come, and the meaning of being born. When I think about Jen, and our two amazing kids, and everything that had to happen just-so to bring us together, I am very grateful.... 3889@http://www.davelemen.com/ Family 2008-10-06T13:52:15-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2008/07/happy_birthday_carter.html Originally uploaded by jenlemen Our video game warrior turned seven today. It has been a big year for him, with a new school to navigate, teaching himself to read with the stack of Calvin & Hobbes books Mark & Meryl have been buying for him, and a growth spurt that transformed (or transmogrified) him from short to tall overnight. In other ways, he... 3858@http://www.davelemen.com/ Family 2008-07-08T12:11:58-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2008/05/new_semester.html This is the first week of the Summer semester. My course for this semester is V&V.... 3849@http://www.davelemen.com/ Personal 2008-05-30T22:35:37-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2008/02/democratic_primary_coverage_thats_out_of_this_world.html ...from This Modern World.... 3828@http://www.davelemen.com/ Funny 2008-02-27T19:15:18-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2008/02/kids_these_days.html I thought I'd break my long blog silence (I know you've been checking it every day in anticipation), to show you this glimpse of life in the Lemen house.... 3825@http://www.davelemen.com/ Family 2008-02-21T13:39:24-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/11/tangible_thankfulness.html Dale McGowan, editor of Parenting Beyond Belief, has a great post up on secular Thanksgiving. I like the emphasis on thanking people directly for the things they've done for us, instead of thanking a deity. Of course, not all things I'm thankful for can be attributed to a person. The weather today is absolutely perfect, the trees look beautiful, and bright yellow leaves are... 3803@http://www.davelemen.com/ Personal 2007-11-20T20:07:32-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/08/meeting_vint_cerf.html I had the opportunity this morning, along with several coworkers, to meet and chat with Vint Cerf, Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist. We were honored also to meet his wife, Sigrid, who came with him. What delightful people! I won't talk about Dr. Cerf's accomplishments. If you don't know who he is and what he's done, you have some homework to do. I've... 3789@http://www.davelemen.com/ Tech 2007-08-31T19:29:44-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/08/on_this_day_.html Nine years ago, I became a dad, Jen became a mom, and the world was introduced to a little girl with endless curiosity, breathtaking creativity, and boundless love for others -- especially for others that are furry. The only thing bigger than her personality is our pride in her. Happy Birthday, Madeleine! You're half-way to voting age!... 3787@http://www.davelemen.com/ Family 2007-08-19T09:40:00-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/08/more_on_wikipedia_and_the_semantic_web.html Greg Linden pointed to some more interesting research that stokes my belief that Wikipedia has a lot more to offer the Semantic Web than we've fully realized. In the paper (PDF) Linden cites, Silviu Cucerzan of Microsoft Research describes a method for improving entity disambiguation that takes advantage of the structure provided by Wikipedia's article titles, disambiguation pages, redirect pages, list pages, categories, and... 3786@http://www.davelemen.com/ Search 2007-08-12T14:22:04-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/08/brian_mocks_me.html Davisms... 3784@http://www.davelemen.com/ Friends 2007-08-01T09:42:36-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/05/enterprise_search_summit.html I'll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC tomorrow and Wednesday. It looks like they have some great presentations lined up; there are a number of break-out slots where I wish I could be in two separate sessions at the same time!... 3764@http://www.davelemen.com/ Enterprise Search 2007-05-14T07:56:10-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/04/cape_town_day_two.html Well, we checked the Table Mountain Cable Car off our TO DO list today. What an amazing experience! We had no idea what to expect, and were completely surprised when the floor of the cable car began turning like a carousel. Unfortunately, we missed out on the Robben Island tour, as the tickets are sold out for several days. We'll schedule the trip for... 3755@http://www.davelemen.com/ Travel 2007-04-01T14:02:19-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/03/south_africa.html Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa! Jen and I bundled the kids onto an airplane for the 20+ hours of flight time it takes to get here. It's a lot of travel, but the first day here in Cape Town made it all worthwhile! Things we've done already: The V&A Waterfront The Two Oceans Aquarium An incredible sunset sailboat tour Biltong Things we still... 3753@http://www.davelemen.com/ Travel 2007-03-31T15:54:29-05:00 http://www.davelemen.com/archives/2007/03/a_wellestablished_scientific_theory_by_any_other_name.html I was surprised at Amy Radil's choice of words in her NPR piece on All Things Considered yesterday. In a story on a Somali immigrant-turned-ambassador, she described the Seattle-based Discovery Institute as "promoting 'intelligent design' as an alternative to Darwinism." I was surprised, because the term "Darwinism" is commonly applied to the theory of evolution by creationists and ID proponents, but not by... 3744@http://www.davelemen.com/ Evolution 2007-03-01T21:37:00-05:00