You gotta love SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics)! I won’t pretend to know anything about creating Flash, but I will say that a non-proprietary, XML-based vector drawing language must be better. I spent a little time the other day learning about its syntax from “LearnSVG.com”:http://www.learnsvg.com/ and applied … Read More →
Monthly Archives: July 2004
Some Love Space, Others Not So Much
Here we go! “Burt Rutan and his team have announced(SpaceShipOne Home Page)”:http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ their intention to claim the Ansari X Prize. The foundation managing this $10 million commercial space race requires that any team planning to go ahead with the daunting task of launching a vehicle … Read More →
Panic Attack!
AHHH! When a customer calls you and informs you that the website that you have been slaving over and already gone live is broken, you panic. I know I just did. I finished with the site over a month ago, and the customer moved on … Read More →
Classifying Spam as a Biological Entity
In my wandering of the web last week, I happened upon an intriguing article entitled “Application of Biological Metaphors for Identifying and Killing Spam”:http://www.generation5.org/content/2004/KillSpam.asp. Basically, this proof-of-concept (code available) posits that if spam were treated as a sort of viral, mutating biological entity, spam filters … Read More →
Political Exasperation
I don’t know about the rest of you (Americans, that is), but I am fed up with the political state of affairs into which our country has fallen. Since the last presidential election, the left- and right-wingers have entrenched themselves in their respective corners of … Read More →
Back To My Computer
After four quiet days, I am back from Palm Springs. The heat down there is just unimaginable during the summer: usually a roasting 110 to 120˚ F (43 to 49˚ C)! How’s that for hot? I made a “cool time-lapse video”:http://www.sensoryoutput.com/fun/#isight_video of the drive down. … Read More →
Out of town
I’ll be gone for a few days as I travel with my sister to mourn the death of my grandfather, who passed away on July 14. His sincerity and intelligence will be missed a great deal by my family. Internet access may be hard to … Read More →
New iPods to Arrive Tomorrow
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/news_ipod.jpg(New iPod on Newsweek Cover)!:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5457432/site/newsweek/ If you are not already up to speed on the iPod, “Newsweek’s cover story next week”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/ speaks of a brand-new iPod (dubbed 4G by many). The full article, “iPod Nation”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5457432/site/newsweek/ is to arrive on newsstands tomorrow. “Supposedly”:http://www.thinksecret.com/news/newipods.html, Apple is to … Read More →
Fire Burns Near Carson City
My state capital (Carson City, Nevada) is currently having a “major brush with a forest fire”:http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/883942.html, the inferno approaching within a few blocks of the governor’s mansion. Being in Reno (about 30 miles north), the smoke has drifted our way for the last week. Even … Read More →
Until Tomorrow
I have been running around all day today, but rest assured, I have a litany of items that I want to cover. (In fact, I do not think I will be able to cover them all in great detail, so I may just pick some.) … Read More →