dm93 ChristmasCardRitual

Merry Christmas from the Connollys: Dan, Mary, Brennan (13), Kyle(8), and Justin(11).

hmm... I like year-in-review letters, esp the ones my Dad writes. But Christmas is getting close and I don't want the perfect to get in the way of the good. I also like letters with selected photos. Our iPhoto collection is too intimidating. I got it down to 6 pages of pictures (@@xmas 2003 album export?) but there's not much bang-for-the-buck there. Christmas letter draft in email.

Mark S... soulscoring. ShareLifeThruArt.

'82 classmates from St. Ann's

(interesting... Prairie Village web site)

print addressbook in label form

hmm... phone numbers and email addresses? they're most useful in a user agent where they're used; e.g. in evolution and in my cellphone. But RedundancyInAllCriticalSystems? says a hardcopy is in order. Or is it enough to reconstruct my email addressbook from, say, my outgoing email? handy source of email addresses of personal contacts include birth announcements, e.g. message-log-1999-0833:<37B91180.47C3A3A0@w3.org> Tue, 17 Aug 1999 02:38:40 -0500 \\ Kyle Patrick Connolly is Born.

Of course, in the age of email, a Christmas card is a rare opportunity to send a message (such as a key fingerprint) thru a pretty secure channel. Hmm...

yahoo address book (@@also: RDF export)

Dec2002 This year, the ritual reminds me of

Det, Aspen '93
Rost, Miege '86. I went to see if they keep the "Miege Matters" newsletter online, so I could throw away my paper copies (see also: LOCKSS, my Nov 2002 notes on LOCKSS). Not only do they not have the newsletter online, they use frames and javascript and stuff. They could clearly use some WebMasterClues.
Eric Ryan; unsent card from 2000 has his address on it.
Michael K. Johnson met him on 2001 Linux Lunacy geek cruise. I like Jon Howell's faith statement too... hmm... one for ScriptureNotes.

29 Dec 2001 Christmas Cards, Address Books, and Maps, in rdfig. @@script to do mailing labels from RDF; 0110pim includes transcription of personal correspondence by post in 2001.

Dec1998: correspondence log in HTML, revision 1.1 1998/12/23 06:12:24; seems to be derived from 1998 post scpreadsheet.

post log spreadsheet thru '97.

year in review letter

authentication notes in research notebook.

circa 1990, in VolleyBallInDallas days: one-line-per-person text file. scribble on it, then key in the scribbles periodially. Hakon, do you still keep yours like that?

circa 1988, in UTMac days: hypercard addressbook

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label printing revisited --connolly, Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:13:49 +0000 reply
trying to remember how I figured out how to print labels.

xmasLabels.ps: xmasLabels.rdf $(SWAP)/pim/jobieLabels.pl
        $(PERL) $(SWAP)/pim/jobieLabels.pl xmasLabels.rdf >$@
xmasLabels.rdf: contactLabels.n3 contact.rdf
        $(PYTHON) $(SWAP)/cwm.py contact.rdf contactLabels.n3 --filter=contactLabels.n3 --data --rdf >$@

where contactLables.n3 maps from danger vocab to usps.n3 vocab ala:

{
  ?WHO d:category [ is :targetCategory of :report ];
    d:first_name ?FN; d:last_name ?LN;
    d:addresses [ r:first [
         d:street ?STREET;
         d:city ?CITY_N;
         d:state ?ST;
         d:zip ?ZIP_CODE;
         ] ].
  (?FN " " ?LN) str:concatenation ?N.
} log:implies
  { [ a p:MailPiece;
    p:recipientName ?N; #@@@
    p:at [
      a p:MailingLocation;
       p:deliveryAddress ?STREET;
       g:inRegion [
         p:cityName ?CITY_N;
         g:inRegion [
           p:stateAbbr ?ST; ] ];
       p:zipCode ?ZIP_CODE ];
    ].
  }.

label printing revisited --connolly, Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:21:59 +0000 reply
of course, that was for JobiePrinter. I'm using PescoPrinter now.

ToDo: obsolete usps schema by vcard --connolly, Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:09:21 +0000 reply
with the hCard microformat and norm'w work on vcard/RDF, it's time to obsolete my usps schema

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