2007 Aug 7, 1:33A review from ArsTechnica of a backup storage device named Drobo.
article review purchase backup storage hardware 2007 Aug 7, 12:28Paul Graham's essay on the roots of the programming language Lisp.
lisp essay language programming software article history paul-graham 2007 Jul 26, 12:05A debate between David Weinberger (of Everything is Miscellaneous) and Andrew Keen (of Cult of the Amatuer) on the Web as the end of intelligent society. Of course since I'm posting this on delicious
its clear who I favor in this debate.
david-weinberger blog article debate taxonomy tagging social community web 2007 Jul 14, 12:15How hackers bugged the largest Greek cell provider and listened to government and military officials.
article ieee cellphone phone conspiracy hack hackers politics privacy security 2007 Jul 6, 5:25How to convert video files to something suitable for the Zune.
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swarm visualization behavior science via:infosthetics 2007 Jul 2, 9:18Advice on various forms of advertising for your blog.
article blog advertising howto reference via:swannman 2007 Jul 2, 9:04Build a device to remotely lock shopping carts.
article humor electronics shopping-cart wireless diy via:swannman 2007 Jun 25, 3:13I keep seeing 'Ozzie' on emails and such now due mainly to
Ray Ozzie who is now the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and his brother
Jack Ozzie. Whenever I see his name I think of
Ozzie from Chrono
Trigger. He was one third of a trio of villains, the other two being Flea and Slash. I feel like I should be thinking of the
Ozzy for
which this Ozzie was named but I really don't.
My next thought on Ozzie is
the Scottish guy who went to my high school. He'd shout
'Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie!' to which listeners were compelled to respond 'Oi! Oi! Oi!'. The wikipedia article on the chant has some thoughts on the
origins but I suppose at Microsoft it could take on entirely new meaning. I really hope I'm someday in a meeting with Ray or Jack Ozzie and have the opportunity...
ozzy personal ozzie random nontechnical 2007 Jun 17, 11:59I expected more from Safari -- more like Opera. There weren't many exciting features to convert me.
apple article safari internet browser arstechnica review 2007 Jun 17, 10:40FTA: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these
intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could de
ai article human intelligence internet philosophy evolution essay scifi technology science future singularity 2007 Jun 13, 1:44Is this real? How could parents hate their children so much as to name them Winner and Loser?
article blog humor name 2007 Jun 11, 2:46Humorous and interesting exchange on the Unicode mailing list concerning the velocity of Unicode character additions and the ability to accomidate alien (as in e.t.) writing systems.
blog humor unicode language microsoft article alien et 2007 Jun 11, 2:41A blog post on the topic of cookie limits in wininet and IE.
http ie ie7 wininet cookie cookies network blog microsoft article 2007 Jun 7, 5:29The other day I had the best idea for my Wii remote. Clearly I should use it to control the rotation of Tetris pieces in my
N-dimensional
Tetris game Polytope Tetris. One of the
issues I described with Polytope Tetris is user input. Given a Wii remote the
user could rotate a piece through 3 dimensions in a manner that's much easier to adjust to than particular keys on the keyboard.
Anyway, I did a little
research into how this might work. I knew that the Wii remote used infrared for absolute positioning and
Bluetooth for everything else (LEDs, speaker, accels.) I bought a
Bluetooth adapter for my PC after realizing that none of my
computers had one already. I used
GlovePIE to ensure that my Wii remote could connect and successfully communicate with my computer.
GlovePIE is actually pretty cool -- it provides a simple script layer over the Wii remote to control things like your mouse.
Since Polytope Tetris is in Java I looked for and found a
Java library for operating with the Wii remote and a long
forum thread discussing its use. I then read up on
Bluetooth in Java. Apparently JSR 82 is the name of the standard that describes the API a Bluetooth stack should expose
in Java. That is, to get Bluetooth working in Java one needs an additional package for Java that actually implements the Bluetooth Java API. This package would depend on the system so I suppose I
can't fault Sun for not including it... Where to find such a package? I found a
comparison list of implementations and tried the ones
that support javax.bluetooth.
None of them worked for me because none can address USB devices it seems or they cost money and I couldn't get the trial version working. I also tried
bluesock (not listed on the previous list) which seemed promising and could produce an address for my Wii remote as a connected device but couldn't use
that address.
And I thought that after I found the Wii remote Java library it would be easy... Oh well...
java bluetooth wii technical remote jsr82 tetris polytopetetris wiimote 2007 Jun 4, 1:58Spammers can get around captchas by getting users to solve the captchas for them in order to access porn sites
captcha robot porn security article 2007 May 31, 11:11An article from newscientist about videogame avatars. There's a slideshow with side by sides of people and their avatars.
internet videogames avatar culture article photos 2007 May 24, 10:48Whenever I see references to Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Arch at MS) I always think of Ozzie the evil guy from Chrono Trigger.
wikipedia article wiki ozzie chronotrigger videogames 2007 May 21, 10:41FTA: '... product reviews on Amazon give an average rating of 4.2 out of five.' I would've thought people would be more likely to review if they had an unhappy experience with something.
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