Marc de Graauw
Information & communication, language, security, semantics, identity, healthcare. ICT, philosopher, geek, father, freelancer, theatre. Available for consultancy in ICT/healthcare. CV
marc@marcdegraauw.com
Author Archives: Marc de Graauw
Atonement and Remorse
So how does forgiveness come about? Paul van Tongeren mentions the conditions of ‘confession, remorse, atonement’. Which he then dismisses, since forgiveness is not conditional, but unconditional: we do not forgive on the condition of some act or atonement by … Continue reading
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Margalit on Forgiving
Recently I’ve been exploring the notion of ‘forgiveness’. Avishai Margalit has devoted a chapter to it in his book ‘The Ethics of Memory‘. The chapter is titled ‘Forgiving and Forgetting’. In it, Margalit makes a distinction between forgiving as ‘deleting’ … Continue reading
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Is being evil an essential property?
In the previous post on Paul van Tongeren‘s lecture at the ‘Nacht van de Filosofie‘ (Night of Philosophy) in Amsterdam I noted that it is prefectly sensible to say that a smart person has done a dumb thing. Likewise, doing … Continue reading
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Is forgiveness possible?
The theme of this year’s ‘Nacht van de Filosofie‘ (Night of Philosophy) in Amsterdam was ‘Reconciliation’ (the Dutch word, ‘Verzoening’, doesn’t translate well to English – from it is derived ‘zoen’ which is Dutch for ‘kiss’ for which we also … Continue reading
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Is RIMBAA a Mistake?
HL7v3 is a framework for developing messages in healthcare. Unlike its predecessor, v2, HL7v3 has at its core an information model, the RIM (Reference Information Model). The RIM contains classes and relations. From the RIM actual healthcare messages are derived, … Continue reading
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Doesn’t the rejection of a compromise presuppose a reasonable alternative?
Friday (April 17, 2009) I attended Avishai Margalit‘s lecture ‘Comprise and Rotten Compromise’ at the Amsterdam ‘Nacht van de Filosofie‘ (Night of Philosphy). Margalit, as far as I’m concerned, is one of the most interesting living philosophers, so this lecture … Continue reading
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What’s wrong with XML?
I’ve uploaded my Dutch article ‘Wat is er mis met XML?‘ on the many well-known shortcomings of XML – namespaces, DOM, canonicalization, XML Schema, in general: complexity and counter-intuitivity. Entertaining, and necessary since I’m more and more often being accused … Continue reading
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Zorg & ICT 2009
I spoke on the Zorg & ICT Beurs in Utrecht Wednesday on Healthcare, HL7v3, XML and Web Services. The presentation and title were in Duth, but the slides are mainly in English.
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Renting a coder
Dan Appleman and Jeff Atwood both wrote a blog “Can You Really Rent a Coder?” about coding auctions such as Elance, RentACoder and guru.com, which make coders bid on projects worldwide. Typically a lot of small, low-paid projects appear there … Continue reading
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Balisage
Balisage 2008 (formerly Extreme Markup) in Montreal is drawing to a close. I’ve had a great time here, and my presentation ‘Axioms of Versioning‘ went very well. There was an entire day dedicated to Versioning, with all great contributions, especially … Continue reading