Was on Sony.com today; the front page design isn’t horrible, but notice anything going on with the text? That’s right, the tabs are JPEGs, not GIF/PNG. Quite icky. Of course, I probably shouldn’t be one to talk…

I signed away the rights of my first film in class today. One can’t take the class without doing so.

So, I’m not quite running around with my head cut off, but I haven’t really had a chance to post anything recently. Last week was spent trying to tie up loose ends, filling out lots of paperwork (class registration, financial crap, etc.) and this weekend was topped off by coming down with a nice little bug. My first class starts tomorrow, so we’ll see how it goes. In the meantime, I’ve realized that I’ve acquired almost 40 open browser windows (it’d be too scary to count the number of tabs).

• MT-Medic – less messy than writing Data::Dumper debug code, semi-related: can’t wait for Perl6 Method Introspection
• Recent Cogent talk:
  • What about Cogent Communications?
  • Impressed with Rackshack and Interland’s new offers
• Fixe Orbit Network Search – shows peering data, etc.
• The Netlantis Project – visual network graphing
• Programming with Twisted:
  • Network programming with the Twisted framework, Part 1
  • Network programming with the Twisted framework, Part 2
  • Network programming with the Twisted framework, Part 3
• 0.9 = 1
  • Conceptual Proof – since there’s no number however small that is >0.9 and <1, they must be equal
  • Algebraic Proof
• iSpeakIt – takes a webpage and converts it w/ Text-to-speech into sound-file — hmm, not to impugn the authors here, but selling this for $10? This is pretty trivial to do w/ standard system calls (probably can be done in Applescript even).
• MyIE2, Avant Browser – two IE shells
• Remove Content from Google’s Index, Automatic URL Removal interface
• MIT Media Lab Viral Communications Program
• Berkeley DB XML development weblog
• Macromedia – new site, now in XHTML/CSS.
• Deep Navigation examples, comparing some IT sites:
  • IBM
  • UW Computing and Networking
  • NYU Law Library
  • NYU ITS

  My thoughts: listings are fine, but for large sites, it probably makes sense to organize by role (more specifically function) – need to come back to this later

• Justin on Machine Friendship and Portraiture

Matt has a writeup of how the Lazyweb helped him set up VNC to get his PC and Mac to happily coexist.

Hey, notice that windowsupdate.com is now running Linux? via, Akamai, but still, a good poke in the eye regardless. As if Blaster and Sobig.F in a week weren’t enough.

I haven’t been keeping track of BlogShares much, although it looks like my site’s been doing pretty well recently. With how busy I’m going to be this fall, I’m sure to be spending more time than ever on the blog.^*

^*past performance is not indicitive of future gains

Y bother: men are doomed after all

“Like the face of the moon, still pitted by all the craters from all the meteors that have ever fallen onto its surface, Y-chromosomes cannot heal their own scars. It is a dying chromosome and one day it will become extinct.”

According to Bryan Sykes’ estimates, males will cease to exist in about 125,000 years. I’m not sure how certain this prediction is (why haven’t other species’ males suffered the same fate?) or how relevant (I suspect either we’ll have hit the singularity or go extinct long before).

Nothing like coming out of work and finding your car with a big frickin’ dent in the door to really cap off the day. I was parked at the inner end of a right turn in the structure. From the looks of the angle and height, it was probably backed into by a moron doing some kind of maneuver in a truck or SUV. No note, of course. This is exactly the kind of thing I don’t need.

Mozillazine has a new Firebird preview article: (Rapid Pace of Development for Mozilla Firebird. Among other things it addresses one of the issues Anil brought up about accessing sidebars.

First of all, any bookmarked page can be made to load in the
sidebar via a simple checkbox in its properties dialogue. In addition,
support is also offered for the Mozilla Application Suite’s addPanel API,
which causes a bookmark that is already set in to open in the sidebar
to be created. Furthermore, Opera’s method for adding panels to its
sidebar equivalent, the Hotlist, is also supported (this method simply
involves a normal link with a rel="sidebar" attribute). By creating a link with a target="_search"
attribute (named for compatibility with Internet Explorer), a site can
cause a page to be loaded transiently in the sidebar, with no bookmark
being created.

Very good.