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@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/wiki/GrokDiscovery
 
 http://txt2re.com/
 
-Executable Compression
------------------------
+Compression for Executables
+---------------------------
 
 UPX: Ultimate Packer for Executables http://upx.sourceforge.net/
 
@@ -67,3 +67,50 @@ PHP Problems
 LISP Visualization
 ------------------
 Nested boxes instead of nested parens: http://pretty-lisp.org/
+
+Webmail
+-------
+
+Squirrel mail is ok, CiderWebmail looks better. Have had problems deploying
+Alpine Webmail.
+
+Structured Wikis
+----------------
+
+Circa May 2012 there are a few options for structured data in wikis:
+
+*[Semantic MediaWiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki)* is
+probably the best option, though it is unfortunately in PHP. This is a series
+of plugins/extensions to vanilla MediaWiki, which add editing (with or without
+forms), querying, visualization, import/export, etc.
+
+*MediaWiki with the [WikiDB](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiDB)*
+(PHP)
+
+*DokuWiki with [data plugin](http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:data)* (PHP)
+
+*eLog* could be used to collaboratively edit simple data.
+
+*TWiki* has structured data features and an input form (Perl). 
+
+DBPedia uses [custom extraction
+tools](http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation?v=6hz) for MediaWiki written in
+Scala. dbpedialite uses just calls the Wikipedia API (Ruby).
+
+You can [search](http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=54395) wikimatrix for
+wiki engines which have a "structured data" feature.
+
+Semantic Data Publishing
+------------------------
+
+[OntoWiki](http://ontowiki.net/Projects/OntoWiki/Features)
+
+[Google Refine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine) (formerly known as
+Freebase Gridworks) seems pretty useful for "cleaning up" datasets. It's a Java
+"workstation" app with a web/http interface. 
+
+USB Performance Issues
+----------------------
+
+Parallelized mass storage transfers are much slower than serialized:
+http://blog.dinkevich.com/why-usb-transfers-are-slow/