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Really interesting story on the BBC Sci/Tech page today. Apparently some Canadian scientists have genetically modified a goat so that it will produce spider silk in its milk. Huh? In case you didn't know, spider silk is "[s]tronger and more flexible than steel... [it] offers a lightweight alternative to carbon fibre." Because Spiders are anti-social they could never be farmed, and hence this material could never be massed produced. Until now. I wonder if you could make one of those Clarke Space Elevators with this stuff? (a tether connecting the ground and a geostationary - Clarke orbit - sattelite.)
Well, that wasn't so hard after all. I guess it wasn't just a waste of space to actually repeat the database entry when building the comment pages. I wouldn't be surprised if this came in useful sometime in the future. Relational databases (we use MySQL) are incredibly cool. I'm totally blown away that something this powerful is available for free. If you are signed in, let me know if there is anything screwy with the new post/comment counts. I had to go directly into the database to fix this (which is what got me into trouble in the first place) so possibly there are some orphaned posts which might interfere with the counters. I can fix it if I know its happening. Thanks.
MB is away for the weekend, so I've had lots of time to work. Almost cleared my plate, so I can start thinking about this page again. I'm going to give one shot at restoring the lost posts (there is some redundancy in the system which might be a feature or a bug depending on how you look at such things, but it might allow me to extract a copy of everything from the database - the harder part will be putting it back on the page where it belongs.) On the other hand, maybe I'll use this event as an excuse to change the focus of my page. I wish the new office was done (and that I would pull the trigger on making the new machine purchase for MB) so that I could go back to Final Cut/Flash experiments. But now with the (rather unbelievable) rumors about G4 powerbooks at Seybold in September (I was thinking February,) I may have to wait some more before deciding. Blah, blah, blah. Beautiful Sunday anyway. Enjoy.
MB is away for the weekend, so I've had lots of time to work. Almost cleared my plate, so I can start thinking about this page again. I'm going to give one shot at restoring the lost posts (there is some redundancy in the system which might be a feature or a bug depending on how you look at such things, but it might allow me to extract a copy of everything from the database - the harder part will be putting it back on the page where it belongs.) On the other hand, maybe I'll use this event as an excuse to change the focus of my page. I wish the new office was done (and that I would pull the trigger on making the new machine purchase for MB) so that I could go back to Final Cut/Flash experiments. But now with the (rather unbelievable) rumors about G4 powerbooks at Seybold in September (I was thinking February,) I may have to wait some more before deciding. Blah, blah, blah. Beautiful Sunday anyway. Enjoy.