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Now on avoiding interstitials…
Let’s talk politics:
I’m still a little in shock I guess but from here it doesn’t look all that bad. Our biggest pain in the ass, Dick Gephardt is dropping out. The left is going to have to consolidate around Dean or else a centrist like Edwards or Kerry or a Republican like Clark is going to drive this party over a cliff. Back when I first got into Dean, I didn’t think he’d be able to pull 3rd in Iowa. It looks like what happened between Gephardt and Dean in Iowa is going to happen to Kerry and Clark in NH. Dean’s in position to become the comeback kid. Kerry’ll gloat about his Mo’ and won’t be able to afford any other states. Howard’s at his best when he’s in the underdog slot. We’re at our best when we feel the media fucked us over. They’ve already done the studies, the results are in: the media has been fucking us over.
They genetically engineered the two-headed fluorescent zebrafish during studies into muscular dystrophy.
To Read:
This memo presents the Tree Hash Exchange (THEX) format, for exchanging Merkle Hash Trees built up from the subrange hashes of discrete digital files. Such tree hash data structures assist in file integrity verification, allowing arbitrary subranges of bytes to be verified before the entire file has been received.
Calendaring… the final frontier. Not really, but probably my next next project. Seeing how far I can push iCal for pubsub, calendar sharing.
Structure: ‘entry’ calendar which will talk to PHP webdav server connected to phpMyCal. This will then generate a ‘combined’ calendar which will be subscribed to. Now here’s the neat card trick. The combined calendar is what we really want, but it’s read only (thanks a lot iCal). So… run a script (AppleScript or shell script, either through cron or if possible, triggered by update) to move the output calendar and overwrite the input calendar (also, just leave it unchecked so you don’t ever get double display). Since we’re using a PHP webdav, we can do smart diffing supa-easily on the server-side. That and authorization, etc will all be handled courtesy of the phpMyCal (input and output will be via PHP). Events are tracked by UID. Does this work?
Seems to be a 99% solution. That is, at the end of the day, you get completely synchronized, fully editable calendar. It’s about a 95% solution for group calendaring. You can set editing restrictions on the server side, but it won’t be enforcable on the client side, however, you can either make it visually locked (make a note, or put it in the title), or just send those to a second subscribe only calendar. Different privacy/control levels can be handled on a by calendar basis w/ a web config, or w/ keywords…
Thoughts on filing:
Tools that exist: CVS, SBook, file system, WhereIsIt?, iCal, Tasks, ACDSee
Tools that need to be worked on: blikiliner, mozdb (see andyed’s work, see bookie, del.icio.us), netjuke++, photo repos
Server-side aggregators, blogroll tools, link managers:
TODO: put latest Midori image on GCTP, try out slimp3 server, netjuke cvs; or buy squeezebox
OK, off to sleep. Still about 9 windows, 50 tabs open, but I’ll clear the rest tomorrow.
More TODO:
I’m teaching ‘programming fundamentals for artists’ for interested IM/Animation students starting next week. I’ll be posting up an outline of my approach/thoughts soon. If anyone has suggestions, drop me a line.
It’s 8PM. What to do for the night?
I think we can safely cross the last two off the list…