John Lambert

Friday, May 24, 2002

Scott Johnson: The Radio Chapters for the O'Reilly Book. [Scripting News]

Actually, the zip file contains the entire "Essential Blogging" book. If you'd like to tech review something, now's your chance. (The footnote on the bottom of Chapter 1's page 24 was pretty funny.)

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Peter Rukavina did an airline browser, much like the one I did for Google. You start at an airport (I entered SFO) and it responds with the airports you can get to from there. Click on one of those and repeat. He has a navigator for the Star Alliance (most of the world) and Air Canada. This is an interesting thread. [Scripting News]

But it would be cooler if they had dotty generate image maps, etc.

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E3 shows game industry's true colors. Spandex-busting booth babes show off games that seem to have come off an assembly line with about five components. But some gear manages to stand out for reasons weird or wonderful. [CNET News.com]

I was at the mall yesterday, and a lot of the games do seem highly derivative of each another.

9:05:47 PM

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Writing error messages for security features.
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I got bored one day and hooked up my DVD player with component video and S-video, and switched back and forth during a DVD. That's kind of what seeing AOTC in a digital theater reminded me of: they're both acceptable to watch a movie, but S-video just looked better. (I haven't seen it on film yet, though.)
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Jose posted a link to this paper. I'm not sure if his "mixed feelings" are about the topic, analysis, or suggestion of a "CDC" for worms. My impression is that the anti-virus people have the infrastructure for analysis (small circle of researchers, secured back-planes, pgp signing, etc.), but probably aren't familiar enough with Unix/Linux. It's an unsolvable problem, so, we're doomed anyway.
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I saw Star Wars/AOTC last night at the digital theater. It was hot. I really like digital projection, more than I thought I would. No artifacts, no "cigarette burns", no clicking in the theatre. It looked really nice. Story was so-so, but I'd see it again.

3:51:42 PM

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Who wants to marry a sysadmin? I smell another Hot or Not coming on.. and btw, Bachelor #4 used to work for me in case you want a reference. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
3:49:51 PM

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New Toolbar Features. Nate writes in to tell us that along with Google Labs, Google has released Experimental Google Toolbar features including a combined search button, a feature to supress pop-up windows and next-previous buttons to navigate thru search results. There are also seven new languages available for the toolbar. To get the new version, I had to uninstall the old one and then install the toolbar again. More: ResearchBuzz [Google Weblog]

Hot.

3:46:55 PM

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More on C#'s lack of const parameters and methods. In response to Charles Cook, I asked some questions. Stefin Wenig on the .NET mailing list provides a take on why const is not included in C# and the CLR. (Quoted with permission) while Jon Jagger had a creative suggestion. Richard Blewitt from DevelopMentor confirmed that there is no const parameters or methods in C# and CLR. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]

Maybe they'll add it to the BCL later? One can hope.

3:43:42 PM

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Adding the foreach construct to Managed C++. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]

Cute, but MC++ is sorta, um, full of symbols...

3:42:20 PM

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Back online thanks to the sweet Linksys router/access point I picked up.
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