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That was harder than I expected. But I finally have my gateway built so that I can email the server the tiny pictures from my sidekick, and the server will take them out of the mail box, put them in the image folder, and add the image information to the database.
Turns out that email attachments are a pain. And PHP imap functions are difficult to understand. Devshed has an excellent article that really helped. Not sure if I could have done it otherwise.
Get ready for a steady stream of tiny low res pictures.
Clear short piece on the broadband paradox.
Not really related, but one semi interesting thing I've noticed through using the sidekick is that the most important thing about broadband is that it's always connected. Speed is nice, but being always on is more important. I'd like to see everybody connected.
Adhocracy. Nicely put. This is important stuff. (via treedragon)
The entire text of the new O'Reilly book Creating Applications with Mozilla is available on line.
At one time I was very excited about this sort of thing. I thought that Mozilla would be the cross platform development environment that would break the microsoft stranglehold on the industry. Didn't really turn out that way, but it's not exactly a bust either. Or, I mean, while the truth might not have lived up to the hype, there's still a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mozilla. And it's a great browser, which is sort of the point anyway.
2 billion year old nuclear reactors? It's true. (via boing boing)
Apple obsession on the big screen.
Deep Fritz has tied the score in its match against human chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Fun story. (via robotwisdom)
Looks like fall 2003 will be a good time to buy a new Mac. Yum. Here's the slashdot thread.
The site has been slow lately, and now this morning it was completely unreachable. Looks like an overfull disk was the problem. Should be better now.