You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
This guy has some amazing pictures demonstrating his bellow tube setup.
I usually to check how my pages work for blind people using w3m or links, but now I can check how colour blind people see my pages: Colourblind Web Page Filter
On September 20th 2004, while putting my luggage in a locker at The Hague Central Station, my shoulder bag containing four - very good - traversos (and personal papers, telephone, calendar, address book etc..) was grabbed away. It stood between my legs on the floor, but the thief was very experienced and fast: I hardly noticed a shadow moving and something slipping against my trousers.
BBC News is reporting thatBBC Nigeria has launched fresh eforts to stamp out polio. This is part of a campaign to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 african countries. They have my best wishes. 
Hopefully this is what I'll think of next time I hear someone say Nigeria.
According to The Seattle Times, coffee really is addictive. In other words: no news today. 
I wonder if Jonathan Schwartz will comment on todays news (ITworld (via ZDNet blog (via Schwartz, actually )) and Computerworld (via Linux Today)) that HP doesn't like him blogging negatively about them. I remember reading the discussed entry and I actually agreed with Schwartz in much of it. But it's interesting as this is what, in my view, blogs do well: give people's opinion a place, without having corporations interfering. For instance, I'm buying a Canon EOS 20D camera, and I read reviews by obviously biassed reviewers, but also lots of blog entries. And after having read enough, I actually ordered it without having had it in my hand, I'm that confident that this will be a great camera. It goes the other way around too, if I buy something on eBay and I get screwed by a seller (no, I don't have any particulars in mind ), I will be sure to report it, and not particularly by negative feedback. This is what blogs do well. And I'm sorry for HP if they don't appreciate it. But hey, they got heaps of PR on it. And it'd be nice to hear Jonathan's opinion.
Originalism has an informative article on the background of Pitcairn.
A good one-file slideshow X-HTML/CSS/JS-based system is available at Eric's Archived Thoughts