watch the amazing, shrinking upcoming mozilla 0.91 buglist - only 64 left. the nightlies have stabilized, although there are still a few quirks with the new modern theme [ which, for the most part, i like better than the old modern theme ].
posted by e3
3:13:13 PM
geek house reminds me that i've been meaning to play around with those x-10 firecracker kits for awhile. yet another project that it'll take me 4 years to get around to completing.
just think of the endless possibilities misterhouse provides:
posted by e3
2:58:21 PM
just think of the endless possibilities misterhouse provides:
"MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time, web, socket, voice, and serial data. It currently runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2k and on most Unix platforms, including Linux.for a much more extensive set of home automation links, check out Linux Home Automation II
Perl subroutines and objects are used to give a powerful programming interface. Here is some example code:
$fountain = new X10_Item 'B1';
set $fountain ON if time_now '6:00 PM';
$movement_sensor = new Serial_Item 'XA2', 'stair';
play(file => 'stairs_creek*.wav') if state_now $movement_sensor eq 'stair';
$v_bedroom_curtain = new Voice_Cmd '[open,close] the bedroom curtains';
curtain('bedroom', $state) if $state = said $v_bedroom_curtain;"
coincidence or not? it's my birthday and towel day:
posted by e3
5:31:32 PM
"You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was. You are invited to join your fellow hitchhikers in mourning the loss of the late great one. Join in on towel day to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams brought to all our lives."
the growing list of shuttered blogs has prompted the inevitable - fucked weblog
posted by e3
5:31:15 PM
giving my wife and everyone else one more reason to believe i'm a superdork - my limited edition blogger t-shirt arrived today. i have been fully assimilated.
posted by e3
7:50:43 PM
sometimes people really have no sense of vision.
most people are just fire-putter-outers that have been singed a few too many times.
"don't bother sucking me into your silly little vision," they say. "i just want to leave work at 5 and watch survivor and eat packaged foods."
posted by e3
8:05:16 PM
most people are just fire-putter-outers that have been singed a few too many times.
"don't bother sucking me into your silly little vision," they say. "i just want to leave work at 5 and watch survivor and eat packaged foods."
soap interopera:
posted by e3
10:14:15 PM
"Given SOAP's role as the underlying specification for Web services, the work being done on the SOAPBuilders discussion list regarding the state of XML, and particularly, SOAP interop has attracted a lot of attention on Web news sites, weblogs, and trade publications. XML Magazine Editor in Chief Steve Gillmor and Editorial Director Sean Gallagher hosted a roundtable discussion with a number of key players from the SOAPBuilders and W3C communities."
hah! i always suspected eliza was behind mefi:
sounds like mefi has a superfine backend. but it really doesn't matter that much. i was seeded on transcripts of love boat episodes and i'll bet you can't tell the difference. you probably got suckered into that weak chinese room argument. searle couldn't philosophize his way out of a wet back of marbles for crying out loud.
posted by e3
6:44:49 PM
"Two years, and numerous grants later, we have an entire cage full of computers running thousands of complex versions of the original Eliza scripts. We started out using USENET as a data source, recording nightly dumps of over 20,000 newsgroups. They were the source for the natural sounding sentences, the range of personalities, the political spectrum, and the various shades of anger, happiness, and delight."finally, we're getting some traction on the whole turing test thing. aoliza proved you really could fool most of the people most of the time.
sounds like mefi has a superfine backend. but it really doesn't matter that much. i was seeded on transcripts of love boat episodes and i'll bet you can't tell the difference. you probably got suckered into that weak chinese room argument. searle couldn't philosophize his way out of a wet back of marbles for crying out loud.
goodbye dack. we hardly knew ye. seems like the new blogging trend is to either go on extended hiatus or shutter things up completely - see cam, anil, genehack and lakefx just for starters. but never fear. i'm bucking the trend and going to keep updating mostly daily. only the neurotic survive.
posted by e3
5:38:46 PM
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
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