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.
Where do the lines go for what's too much intrusion into someone's life? This guy has found a memory card in a taxi, and says: I am going to post one of your pictures each day. I will also narrates as if I were you. Apparently so that this person can get back to him and reclaim his/her memory-card. Why does this remind me of blackmail?
Left a question about iWork for Sun
Now I'm sure, I'm buying a Canon 20D. I discussed the camera with the corner-photostore guy who also just ordered one, and he said an interesting thing: don't get the lens. Apparently, it's giving rounded off images. Now, I don't have the worlds most fancy 28-80 lens on my EOS 500, but I've never had a problem with lenses. So, I went to look for some reviews. The lens in question is a EF-S 18-55/3.5-5.6 (here reviewed by photo.net). I guess my main point is having one that I can get close enough with, as my trusty 28-80 will become a 45-128 lens. Thus 18-55 should overlap nicely, and I really shouldn't need to go for the 17-85 lens. The conclusion from photo.net comes in the beginning of the article: it's good enough. Right. I'm not an expert. If I was, I'd buy the Canon 1MkII or something. Done deal, I can't afford the other lenses. (Interestingly, I haven't found any packages with a 20D and a 17-85 lens)
I've been working on installing PHP5 on client webservers the past couple of days, and with some help that's been going all right. Much I've read has been on the merits of PHP5 vs PHP4, little have I read on user experience. So here's my first experiences with PHP5 and commonly used PHP packages:
With the release of
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 and Firefox 1.0 preview, the problem with Desktop Manager and CodeTek Desktop Manager are gone. For the past two release it has been beyond belief hard to input any text into Firefox and Thunderbird, to the point where I've gone back to Apple's Mail and Safari. Now I can use both Mozilla products again. 
According to AppleInsider, Tiger is adding
an option to encrypt memory when its being swapped to disk. If swapping wasn't a performance drain already, this will be. Unless, of course, "encryption" is an XOR thingy or similar. (I automatically assume strong encryption )
Great point of entry into ongoing discussions about Skype: privacy, VoIP, statistics, infrastructure.
In a response to an ongoing discussion at Binary Bonsai, I decided to implement Gallery 2 for Kubrick. Estimated time: 30 minutes. This is not Vanilla Kubrick, this is my bastardized version, I just copy-pasted most of the plain HTML and made sure all the CSS was in the CSS file. Reason being, { and } are "smart tags" in Gallery 2. Ok, so let's go.
I'll definetly need to read Using VST/VSTi Plugins In Linux when I'll want to do the same for FreeBSD. Just reinstalling 5.3BETA3 on my laptop to make it my power music-station. Yeah, it's still the 400 Mhz thingy. 