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Little network problem for the last few minutes. Anybody else notice that?
I can't get Safari to accept cookies from localhost. I dimly recall having this problem before, but I can't find any reference to it here, so maybe I'm dreaming.
Anyone?
More on my latest lust: +1 megapixel digital camera phones. Of course in Japan first. Nothing new in that article, really, but the last two paragraphs are interesting.
Some camera makers are nevertheless concerned that cell phone cameras with 3 megapixel quality would affect the markets of low-quality digital cameras of the 1 megapixel class and disposable cameras."[M]ore formal photo sessions...," huh? Yeah right. The digital camera will be completely subsumed into the phone very quickly for all but the most professional applications. Those companies better move into the +10 megapixel pro range, or strike some deals with cell makers. Who's going to want to carry two devices? Especially when the added bulk gets you less functionality (can't send your picture to someone while in the field with your regular digital camera.)
However, many of them expect that camera-equipped cell phones and regular digital cameras can coexist in the market. "Camera-equipped cell phones can be used for casual snapshots, while regular digital cameras are suitable for more formal photo sessions," an employee of a camera maker said.
Converge damn it, converge!
Dave has been loaning us DVDs from his rather extensive collection. Last night we watched The Day The Earth Stood Still. I was not expecting too much from this 1951 sci-fi picture, but I remember Paul Laffoley mentioning that this movie had a huge influence on him as a kid. Especially the spaceship whose shape holds some sort of golden mean beauty to those with mathematical eyes. So I figured what the heck. And it turned out to be a great film. It's dated, sure, except not so much as you'd think. Very interesting.
Also we've seen a lot of crap. Not from Dave of course, but from the little video store across the street. One exception to those misfires was Secretary. Fun movie.
Not sure why I'm not putting this on the movie page.
Chadler 0.1 is now available. Here's the release info. You can download it here (windows, linux, os x).
I'm excited about this, but don't have the time right now to play with it. I'll report back as soon as I do.
Here's Cory Doctorow's blurb which captures exactly why I have so much hope for this project.
Mitch Kapor and the Open Source Applications Foundation have released the first public alpha of Chandler, the serverless, P2P mailer/calendar/PIM that looks more and more like an application framework for displacing the OS as the primary tool of info-management -- I *already* use my mailer as a database layered on top of my OS, since I email almost everything I do to someone, somewhere. I've stopped sweating careful file-heirarchies for my archived docs on my HDD and started just using my mailer's search functions to find the documents I need to retreive. Looks to me like Chandler is being *designed* for that kind of use.File system hierarchies are not something the average user should have to concern themselves with. This complexity is holding back adoption.