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Why hasn't the more like this style of blogging caught on? The more I think of how I want my blog set up, the more I come back to something like this. I want each post to have a category (or categories) that it falls into. Then the page becomes more like a database. You could choose to only see web related links, or only see personal posts, or only see posts about travel, or apache, or space, ect... Simple, really, but maybe it is not simple enough? Can you really categorize your interests in a rigid way? Maybe the simple "newest post at the top" blogger style is the most sophisticated thing we can do that still gets lots of people involved.
Looks like Ricoh has a new camera with some of the functionality I've been looking for. With an optional communications card it can do email, ftp, http, fax, as well as create html files containing your pictures. I can't find a price, but probably not cheap.
A little something for the future: the rosetta disk (from eatonweb.)
Postal experiments. Another good link from robotwisdom.
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The IOC is trying to put a 10 year ban on the showing of any olympic video footage on the internet. I think someone hasn't been paying very close attention.
Great site. Sort of a slashdot without the unix (huh?) or, in other words, a cool science story blog. Great site (did I say that already?)
Oh yeah, it's World AIDS day. Some bloggers are, once again, doing the day without weblogs thing. I'm not, but I support their goals. As an incredibly lazy gesture, here is a very good list of AIDS links that someone else put together. [memo to Mark M.: it is only a day without weblogs - I think there might have been some misunderstanding here.]
"Garry Winogrand is famous for having exposed three rolls of Tri-X on the streets of New York City every day for his entire adult life. That's 100 pictures a day, 36,500 a year, a million every 30 years. Winogrand died in 1984 leaving more than 2500 rolls of film exposed but undeveloped, 6500 rolls developed but not proofed, and 3000 rolls proofed but not examined (a total of a third of a million unedited exposures). This is the kind of dedication that you need to bring to a street photography project if you hope to achieve greatness."Alex, I think you might be slacking up there in the park.
NEC, and now Sony, are both recalling some of their Transmeta powered notebooks because of a bug in the 600 Mhz version of the Crusoe processor. Intel, of course, is having problems with its P4, and Apple/Moto/IBM have already been taking heaps of scorn for over a year due to flagrant violations of Moore's Law. Damn. On the other hand, The Register (insert small grain of salt) is reporting that
"AMD has been quietly producing test chips using a new, pure version of silicon with greatly enhanced thermal properties....California-based Isonics produces an isotopically pure silicon which has much better thermal conductivity than natural silicon, meaning that heat can be removed more effectively. Isonics won't confirm it's working with AMD, stating only that 'a major microprocessor manufacturer has modeled isotopically pure silicon wafers and has told us that the peak temperature of their advanced 1GHz microprocessor was reduced by 35 degrees celsius.'"Beware of the vapors here, but 35 degrees! I'd love to see AMD pull this off.