11. April, 2003 - miscellany for the weekend
- I wrote a bit about 1129 - 8th St SE and 727 - 15th Ave SE the other day. They’re part of the geography section, which I’m slowly filling up. with tidbits from my past.
- I also wrote a short little essay about The Preferences Problem this morning. I don’t think there’s a good solution, but if you know of one, I’d love to hear about it.
- It’s Friday, so go check out cocktaildb.com, the Internet Cocktail Database. Need to mix a drink? Here’s your spot. [via Looka! ]
- A bicycle built for soup talks about the Soup Peddler who delivers fresh soup to a maximum of 100 clients each week in Austin, TX. Sounds pretty darned cool. [some guy]
- Transit concept gets its first test, the PRT or SkyWeb Express looks like an interesting alternative to cars. There’s a lot more information at the Taxi 2000 site. [strib]
- I didn’t know What to Expect in PHP 5.0, and I’m still not sure I do, but the article tells me it’s going to
take the world by storm
because it’s going to support Java and .Net objects (and have a big change to the object architecture within PHP). Thing is, I don’t really use those features, and don’t care about Java or .Net objects, and I fear upgrading will mean enough syntax changes that I’ll need to go in and touch all my PHP code again. jr conlin has some thoughts about PHP5 that he shares in Achillies' Other Heel. The nutshell? Plus, i liked no budget Kirk better than high budget Picard.
- In the Hands of Geeks, Web Advertising Actually Works. There have already been a couple times when I’ve bought something as a result of google’s adwords. It’s a lot easier than trying to navigate the heirarchy of crap at Amazon or put up with a ton of popups that cover up the product I’m trying to buy. Go to google, search for what you want, and then look at the top ten results and the ads on the right. My experience is that most of the time you’ll find someone who’ll sell it to you with minimum fuss. [doc]
- Independents' day talks about how independent labels are doing okay, even while the major labels flounder and whine about piracy. The one thing that most of the articles about indy labels seem to leave out is that while they do work great for established artists, how well do they work for someone trying to break into the biz? It’s hard to say from this article, since it only talks about names I’d heard from major labels. [some guy]
- Software to unzip identity of unknown composers: basically by compressing an unknown bit of music together with a few known bits of music, and comparing the change in compression ratios, you can match up genres or music, or composers of classical music pretty well. The process just works on the raw data, with no idea about what it’s looking at. Pretty much the same process has already been used on text.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:02:18.