BurningbirdI have been thinking of getting a new computer. My two Powerbooks are struggling with the software I want to run–particularly Adobe’s Lightroom and PhotoShop CS2. The software is supposed to be run on a 1GHz CPU, and mine is only 800MHz. It does run, albeit slowly and rather frustratingly. They’re lovely applications, but Adobe […]
I agree with Sam Ruby: a successful tech is a diversified one. You can’t always depend on a new millennium to justify sticking with one and only one programming language. This last week I worked with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. I had been on a long hiatus from Java after the end of the […]
Thanks to Scott Reynen for the link to a second squid focused weblog–this one by Laughing Squid. The site has two items that especially caught my eye (figuratively) this week: War of the Worlds with a real squid. Filming the Red Devil — a National Geographic film clip showing large Humboldt squid attacking the man who is attempting to film them. […]
There were three deer on the path in front of me. They didn’t run when they saw me. They just stood there staring at me. Finally, as one, they moved: one pawed the ground, one began eating the leaves from a small bush, the third started walking towards me. Deer are supposed to run from […]
Oooo. This is fun. *claps hands* David Weinberger asks: Let’s say I want to express in an RDF triple not simply that A relates to B, but the degree of A’s relationship to B. E.g.: Bill is 85% committed to Mary The tint of paint called Purple Dawn is 30% red Frenchie is 75% likely to […]