quitting smoking
(or: Fuck! Ass!) Don’t let anyone tell you that quitting smoking is easy. I spent Sunday, Monday and Tuesday either unable to focus on anything for more than 2 minutes, or drunk to escape that fact. Which is really fun […]
small things
So I just went through my Small Things box to find a old pair of red/blue glasses so I could view http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040108.html; I didn’t find them, but I did find the Certificate of Title to my car, which I thought […]
links
Synergy / http://synergy2.sf.net/ Multi-{platform,machine} keyboard/mouse transport; use two desktops from one machine. Nomic game on c2 wiki / http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NomicGame Why is it that even though I’ve spent time looking around the c2.com wiki, I’ve never seemed to see it all? […]
WinFS and IPC
A friend pointed me to http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/11/14/640kbOughtToBeEnoughForAnyone.html… Very interesting. I’ve been reading good things about WinFS, and generally about other facets of Longhorn, since the PDC. And now micros~1 is releasing the Word and Excel XML schemas… with perhaps-not-unreasonable licenses. I […]
First Snow
It has snowed in the past … even over a month ago. But this is the first time it hasn’t immediately melted. I give you: First Snow.
REST
Comments regarding plightbo’s recent anti–REST posts… Objects vs. Resources There is a fundamental difference between objects and resources, and it’s really important. Objects are data + behavior, whereas resources are just data [and links to other data, if you’re smart]. […]
PrismiqIndexer
I got a Prismiq MediaPlayer. They provide a linux-native media server, but no front-end. I started a simple PrismiqIndexer. Go me.
links
New hackers take on Web services — So it begins… Shock! Overly-complex vendor-specific protocols rushed to market are vulnerable to attack. More on Web services and distributed objects — Mark Baker puts into words better then I wanted to my […]
reflection, rating and ‘regating
I’ve continued to work pretty hard, but it looks like the initial burden of creating a 1.0 system is done. Now we’re in that wonderful time of reflection, rating, and looking forward to the future. reflection There are plenty of […]
working hard
I’ve been working quite hard, and a bit of a toll is being incurred. But mostly on cool new projects that I keep thinking up. There’s something about hard creative work that fuels other creative impulses. As I’m ” such […]