Advogato blog for ian

26 Sep 2001

Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:34:30 GMT

I see you baby, shakin' that AppleScript Studio. This made my day, but then, I'm hopelessly stuck in the HyperCard era... I hope this allows users with no programming experience to build similarly cool things. Bindings for other scripting languages would be nice, but one thing at a time, I suppose.

Misspelling 'widgets', however, is just blasphemy.

22 Dec 2000

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:05:34 GMT

Almost had my sleep cycles regulated until the cable modem arrived. Oops.

Mac OS X continues to impress. On the slate tomorrow: installing XFree86 4.02.

8 Dec 2000

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:28:46 GMT

"point of sales" seems an ill-conceived acronym.

2 Dec 2000

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 02:14:50 GMT

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17 Nov 2000

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:56:25 GMT

warm... warmer... disco!

So I'm watching television. I'm usually capable of tuning out ads, but a few occasionally slip through. In this case, it's an ad for some sort of lotion from a relatively well-known brand. Women are waving their hands around, rubbing the substance into them in an attempt to prove how silky-smooth their hands have become.

Voiceover: Developed for Arctic fishermen!

15 Nov 2000

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:41:12 GMT

map.net: We've organized the entire Internet onto a map of Antarctica.

I think I'll try and wrangle venture capital to map the Web onto a block of gouda cheese.

10 Nov 2000

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:51:17 GMT

sleeping constantly. not good.

8 Nov 2000

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:10:11 GMT

I give up. Who knows who won the election? Certainly not I. Regardless, it's pretty damn cool.

7 Nov 2000

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:00:54 GMT

Began sketching out a user interface based on eye tracking while waiting for a class. I'm really excited about it, though I haven't a clue how to implement it... yet.

Rather depressing reality check when I got home: the cost of a leading eye tracking development system? $18,000. There has to be a way to do it affordably. Also found out, as it so happens, that an eye tracking conference is going on right now... wish I'd known about it earlier--not that I would've had a way to get there.

6 Nov 2000

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:41:25 GMT

Trying to motivate myself to do work... not succeeding by any stretch of the imagination. I should be thankful that one of my profs is letting me rewrite a paper, but it felt rather nice to have it over with a week ago.

Mainly writing to say congrats to lgerbarg on his first softupdates for Darwin code drop... I'm incredibly glad he's taken up the challenge.