This is a quick and dirty way to turn a DOI (Digital Object Identifiers for academic papers) into an HTML & Microdata citation. I use this to power my Citations page. Schema.org is a Microdata standard which allows machines to read your HTML and create semantic relations between documents. Here's a minimum viable citation: <blockquote itemprop="citation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> …
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Thames Water seem to love giving me a new account number each month. That would be fine, but each time they do, I have to manually add that number to my online account. I'm bored of being their data-entry monkey. So, when they rang today, I told them that I expected them to update my account. We had the normal back-and-forth and "let me speak to your manager" that accompanies anything deviating off-script. A manager called back, we went though account verification, I confirmed I was…
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Another middle-class rant about an easily solved problem. Or, how a software bug nearly cost me £80. Things you should know... London has a Congestion Zone. You have to pay £11 to drive through it. If you have an EV (Electric Vehicle), you don't have to pay the Congestion Charge. Easy, right? Not quite. In order to get the 100% discount, you have to register your vehicle and pay a £10 per year charge. A bit annoying but basically fair. So, I registered. That's where the problems be…
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I want Schema.org to add dietary requirements to the Person specification. And I need your help! Background Schema.org is a metadata standard. You can include it on webpages to create structured, machine-readable data. Here's a sample way of representing a Person: { "@context": "https://schema.org/", "@type": "Person", "name": "Albert Einstein", "hasOccupation": [ { "@type": "Occupation", "name": "Professor of Physics", "occupationLocation": { "@type":…
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A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power... Ridiculously campy fun. Combat mathematician uses her smarts - and her guns - to chase baddies throughout America. Bombs, vector calculus, and hard-boiled detectives. Similar to The Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine - in that it is autobiographical wish fulfilment - but much better executed. …
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