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  • rajbot 2:47 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Help! Disney is breaking the copyright protection on my movie! 

    I made a movie, encrypted it with a ZIP password, and put it online on my website and so only paying customers can view it. Paying customers can download it from here and watch it.

    However, it appears that Disney has published the key needed to decrypt this movie on their website! In fact, a quick google search shows that every web page on disney.com contains this key!!

    Does anyone have any advice on how get Disney to cease and desist their copyright circumvention???

     

    • Spam Bucket 3:12 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Call a lawyer. Don’t take legal advice from random unlicensed strangers who post crap on your blog.

    • Q 3:44 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I have three words for you: “Cease and Desist.” I think that you need to invoke the DMCA to put a stop to this blatant thievery.

      Cool video by the way.

      PS the Graffiti thing isn’t here right now.

    • Daniel Cormier 2:48 pm on May 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Try changing the password to something other than “disney”…

    • Q 12:14 pm on May 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      This site will give you your own personal integer for all of your encryption needs. As a bonus, according to AACS, you apparently will now OWN this number and can sue anyone else who mentions it. Math is fun!

    • rajbot 2:56 pm on May 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yup. Any 16-character name is potentially infringing on an illegal 128-bit number.

      Disney’s corporate name, The Walt Disney Company, and be shortented to sixteen characters by abbriviating “Company” as “Co.”, and then removing spaces.

      TheWaltDisneyCo. = 54 68 65 57 61 6c 74 44 69 73 6e 65 79 43 6f 2e

      Sony’s website is illegally circumventing my copyright protection mechanism as well:

      SonyPictures.com = 53 6f 6e 79 50 69 63 74 75 72 65 73 2e 63 6f 6d

      It doesn’t take much work to see that every company backing AACS is operating an illegal website.

  • rajbot 5:27 pm on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    AJAX Best Practices 

    I saw this banner while surfing the web:

    Here, I’ll save you $1300:

    Best Practices for AJAX content development, rule #1: When developing AJAX web apps, don’t waste your time trying to work around Safari’s many DOM/Javascript/Canvas bugs. Instead, force your mac users to upgrade to Firefox*.

    *Corollary to rule #1: At least force them to upgrade to a nightly build of WebKit, but even then, you’re walking into a very buggy minefield.

    I would have saved a few weeks of development time if I had followed rule #1 sooner.

    Firefox: It sucks, but it sucks much less.

     

    • may 11:33 pm on April 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      firefox is the only browser that doesn’t cause me to lose my hair. it sometimes causes my computer to crash…but that’s better than me losing hair!

  • peliom 10:36 pm on April 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The ECONO BIN EB-200 !!! 

    I’ve always been looking for some way to store, display, see and manage my maps so they were stored out of the way but not hard to get to. And no folding. I hate folding. This has been for years and last week I threw up my hands and just decided to order the first thing I found on the internet.

    I had to back down off of that because the first thing I found costs $1249. It was then that I began to understand that this might get a little pricey. Even finding poster display hardware was a pain. Google search “poster display” and let me tell you … you’re not going to find anything that helps you display your posters.

    So I opted for the EB-200 “Econobin” at a mere $200. I know as soon as I post this someone is probably going to tell me I can get the same thing at IKEA for $79.99, but whatever …. I like the industrial look. And this thing is built to last, it’s going to be the only thing left in my apartment after The Big One

    Host unlimited photos at slide.com for FREE!


    The ECONO BIN arrived wrapped in so much packaging I had to play like a field medic and cut it all off. It’s made up of decent square and round powder coated steel tubes.

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    Here is The BIN assembled with the copious packaging in the foreground. I bet the UPS guy was glad I came downstairs to meet him and drag these boxes up myself.

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    And here are some extremely organized maps. Shown here are the SFBC Bicycle Map, The NYC Subway Centennial Map of 2004, and the AAA Baja California Travel Map.

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    Naturally I was kind of smoking crack when I bought this thing. It’s way too big, awkwardly shaped and doesn’t fit anywhere. But I like it and I’ll get to see my maps a lot more now. And I have a map bin in my house !!

     

  • rajbot 1:09 am on April 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Rules for the New Bubble 

    Remember the previous bubble?

    Remember how we used to go out every day of the week?

    Remember dancing all night and watching the sunrise? On a Wednesday? Remember the Best Tuesdays Ever?

    Remember how much beer we drank? Remember how much beer we drank at work?

    What happened? Now we all work too much. And type to much. We’re old and sober, with hurty wrists.

    Rules for the new bubble:

    1. You must see at least five friends every week. Housemates and workmates don’t count. Have more dinner parties. Eat more sushi.
    2. At least twice a month, you must go out on a weeknight. Listen to music, go dancing, go out on a date.
    3. Once a month, you are to go on an adventure. A real adventure. Mountains, Hot Springs, and Playa are all recommended.
    4. Re-institute the 11-o’clock rule: you have to leave for work by 11am. The best thing about this rule is that you are highly encouraged to break it, and if you aren’t out of the house by 11, you might as well go to brunch.
    5. One day a week you are to not touch the computer. No web browsing or email. No typing! Go outside and enjoy the beautiful city and hang out with your awesome friends!

    What do you guys think?

     

    • may 3:22 pm on April 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      i have a feeling this is for mr. peliom. nonetheless, it all sounds good to me :-)

    • mangtronix 12:14 pm on April 27, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Bring it on! I’ll be there soon to make sure you follow the rules!!!

  • rajbot 4:51 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans 

    I just got the strangest email.. It came from pandemicrawfrankfurters at yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com

    I don’t know what you are selling, dude, but I want in. Just let me know where to bury the shoebox full of money.

    BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS

    Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans, Brush Aside Conspiracy Theorists Claims of Failure*

    BUTTE, MT – NOVEMBER 31, 2008 –

    In a remarkable discovery by Scientists who know things of importance, Banned substances composed of gold, freeze-dried tomatoes, bunions, cold frankfurters and extremely wet paste made in Peru have been combined in an innovative fashion to reveal what man has always feared: granite no longer weighs as much as it did in the Stone Age.

    Against all odds and despite incredible circumstances of little merit, these Scientists determined this astounding fact while testing 5-year-old Beowulfs infected with the passive-aggressive DNA of long-extinct wooly mammoths.

    During the initial testing phase of this mouth-watering experiment, Scientists were surprised to realize the 5-year-old Beowulfs responded with extreme vim and vigor to granite containing the aforementioned banned substances, adamantly licking the granite for days on end with little concern for their surroundings. Eventually, these Scientists came to the conclusion that their test subjects were drawn to the granite because the highly toxic DNA injections created an additional saliva gland completely obsessed with granite. The obsessive licking stripped the granite of its mineral exoskeleton, which proved to be the majority of granite weight.

    “It’s a startling discovery, one for the ages. I suspect this will alter the future of man for days to come,” exclaimed Dr. Waz, one of the lead Scientists assigned to the project by his lazy neighbor, Jo-Jo. “I enjoy making things that people look at with their eyes, not their ears. This will eventually cure leprosy, we believe. If Lazarus were alive today, he’d be shooting arrows into the ground.”

    Because this information is just now being released to the general public, there are fears of rampant rationing of atrophied orangutan livers, especially among sonar enthusiasts. But Jordan Jordanian, co-director of the experiment, dismisses these fears as short-sighted superstition.

    “Spaghetti and meatballs will never be quite the same, as long as I have anything to say about it,” whispered Mr. Jordanian while sipping a bowl of spinach. “We stand by our findings. The results speak for themselves.”

    The results quickly added, “Why can’t we save all the rhinoplasty victims, for God’s sake? Man wasn’t placed here to erect large monuments. We were placed here to erect social and sexual mores for the needy. What more needs to be said?”

    What happens next, only the future knows. And the future isn’t talking in a loud voice anymore.

    “Bacon will always be better than pork chops, that’s one thing you can count on,” echoed the future from a previous interview edited for television.

    Yet, there are some who believe the Scientists need to conduct further tests before releasing these findings to the public.
    “As a pushy architect with a zest for killing wild boars on partly cloudy days, I fear for the safety of teen titans from sea to shining sea,” brayed dr. P. P. timmmii, founder of the Swiss Foundation for Found Founders. “It’s still OK to prefer pavement. Granite is for the weak and ill-fitted. But I will say this – those stupid jackoffs who go to Burning Man every year will finally be able to ride faster, once we replace the granite. Gravity isn’t pretty.”

    For more information regarding this important discovery by the Scientists, contact your local Notary and ask for more peanuts. Zygotes not included without written permission from your kidnapper. For less information, please
    visit:
    http://yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com/

     

  • rajbot 11:13 pm on March 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    DIY MultiTouch Keyboard Roadmap 

    avrusbkey

    Today my AVR USBKey dev board finally came and I’m on my way to making an open source clone of my beloved TouchStream keyboard. I’m using the Cypress CapSense parts for the multitouch sensing and AVR parts for doing the processing and communication. The first prototypes will have most the processing done in software, actually, and then I’ll decide between AVR and ARM7 later.

    Here is the roadmap:

    1. Write OSX userspace app to communicate with AVR over USB and emulate mouse/scroll wheel
    2. Prototype (onetouch) CapSense slider using Cypress PSoC chip
    3. Have PSoC chip communicate with AVR using SPI or CAN bus
    4. Implement slider that emulates scroll wheel that I can attach to the side of a Cinema Display (using userspace app for processing).
    5. Prototype small 2D multitouch touchpad using one PSoC chip communicating with AVR
    6. Make larger 2D multitouch surface with multiple PSoC drivers, all talking to the AVR
    7. Work on gesture recognition code in the userspace app
    8. Port gesture code to the AVR or ARM7
    9. Get keyboard to work as a HID device without drivers or the userspace control app.
    10. Done with version one!

     

    • may 11:15 pm on March 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      oh wow, can’t wait to see!

    • Jose Manuel Vigil 12:13 am on June 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi rajbot I find this article very interesting and I would like to contact you. I am sorry I don’t see any contact information here at TikiRobot. Is there any institutional mail I can send my mail whith my contact information?. Thanks lot. Kind regards. Jose.

      PS: If anyone knows a site mail plese tell me so i can send my contact request email.

    • rajbot 9:22 am on June 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I’ll send Jose an email..

    • David Mitchell 9:01 am on August 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I would love to hear about any progress that you make in this endeavor…the cable in my touchstream is fraying, and replacements are ridiculously expensive on eBay, so any alternatives would be much appreciated!

    • rajbot 9:39 am on August 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      You can replace the TouchStream ribbon connector very cheaply. A bit of soldering is involved. Here are the instructions and the part ordering information:

      http://www.fingerworks.com/TouchStreamLongCable.pdf

  • rajbot 10:55 pm on March 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    How to keep WordPress from borking your post 

    Sometimes you just want to post a code snippet or some xml on your blog, but WordPress borks the formatting. So we installed the iG Syntax Hilighter, which mostly works great. It uses GeSHi under the hood.

    But sometimes, the syntax highlighter does too much highlighting. I wrote a minimal GeSHi language file for ‘nocode’, which basically lets me use the syntax highlighter like a glorified pre tag. No more worrying about wptexturize() pulling a Swedish Chef on your post! Here is the language file if you want to use it:

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    <?php
/*************************************************************************************
 * nocode.php
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 * Author: rajbot
 * I wanted a <pre> that didn't fuck everything up..
 ************************************************************************************/
 
$language_data = array (
	'LANG_NAME' => 'NOCODE',
	'COMMENT_SINGLE' => array(),
	'QUOTEMARKS' => array(),
	'KEYWORDS' => array(),
	'OBJECT_SPLITTERS' => array(
		),
	'REGEXPS' => array(),
	'SCRIPT_DELIMITERS' => array(
		)
);
?>
     

  • rajbot 9:57 am on March 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Long Term Preservation for Open Source Software 

    Even though I never used the SourceForge compile farm, reading about its recent demise made me sad for some reason. It also made me think about the important role SourceForge plays in the Open Source world.

    When SourceForge started in 1999, they provided a unique service that helped start thousands of open source projects, both large and small. Today, however, the core functionality of SF project hosting is easy to replicate by simply installing Subversion and Trac on a hosted server. A few competitors such as Google and Savannah have also sprung up. The services that SourceForge provides are no longer unique, but that’s not what makes it so important.

    When software authors use a version control system like Subversion to write software, they preserve the history of all their changes. Although it is possible to preserve a log of edits in other mediums, most authors, musicians, painters, sculptors, or other “content creators” (ugh) do not save this kind of detailed history of their work.

    Imagine being able to take your favorite book and roll back every change the author made, one edit at a time, so you could see the author’s thought process, and learn how a bunch of words were arranged to create something beautiful. It would be a huge learning experience for new authors. This is something that new software authors can do easily with open source software. Being able to explore fine-grain history makes software a unique kind of content. Future generations would find this information hugely valuable, just like we would find having Shakespeare’s first, second, third, fourth, and fifth drafts hugely valuable.

    Open source software is worth preserving, both for its utility, and for the history it provides. Open source projects start and die out all the time, but hosting the project on SourceForge means that even if an author stops developing it, the world will still have access to it. Others would be able to look at the source code, view its history, and even incorporate the code into their own Open Source software.

    SourceForge is owned by VA Software, a company that provides a great service to the Open Source world. But it is a company that can be bought by someone who might not understand the value of long-term preservation of open source software. Companies in general aren’t concerned with doing anything on a long-term scale. As far as I know, there is no one thinking about how to preserve software repositories for 100 or 1000 years. This stuff is important. How are we going to preserve it?

     

    • peliom 9:44 pm on March 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Wow, that is sad about the compile farm, and certainly doesn’t send a positive message about VA’s ability to continue supporting sourceforge.

      The compile farm adds *huge* value to the OS community because it allows developers with very little resources (e.g. college students) to get their software to at least compile on a machine/system they don’t own. They someone who has that system (who may not be a developer) can test it.

      I totally agree with you about preserving open source projects. In 99 years all this stuff is going to be an anthropologist’s wet dream.

      I would be curious to know what the cost structure is like for Sourceforge. But whatever the cost, I’m sure it is well within the means of say, Wikipedia. They like to save things and they can raise tons of money in a jiffy. Of course archive.org would be a sensible place as well ;-)

      What I think is interesting is that as time goes on, the ratio of hardware power to source code is going up up up. We are controlling these huge behemouth machines with tiny text files of source code.

  • rajbot 10:32 am on March 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    My Favorite Net Things 

    Someone made this 1999… How did we share video in a time before YouTube?? Hotline servers? ICQ?? The Forum That Shall Not Be Named????

     

  • rajbot 2:45 pm on February 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Discordian License 

    Until 1989, a published work had to contain a valid copyright notice to receive protection under the copyright laws. But this requirement is no longer in force — works first published after March 1, 1989 need not include a copyright notice to gain protection under the law. –fairuse.stanford.edu

    Under the current copyright regime, every scribble and doodle published on TikiRobot is automatically granted copyright protection. This is not a good thing. We want people to use our scribbles and doodles to make wonderful things.

    What do to??? We could license our blog under one of the many Creative Commons licenses. While this would help support the Creative Commons, and a machine-readable CC-license helps artistic robots find our work, choosing the right CC license is difficult, and I’m now getting bored of contemplating the many choices.

    We are all geeks and nerds here, so the GNU Free Documentation License might be appropriate, but it is very long, with eleven sections and an addendum, and I never finished reading it.

    While searching for an appropriate license, I was reminded of a strange work I read long ago, The Principia Discordia, a manuscript of great wisdom and eloquence, which was released under a unique and strange license. The publishers of the book reversed the rites, and dedicated the book to Kallisti, The Prettiest One, and encouraged readers to reprint what they liked.

    This is a great license. Five words long. No need to be complicated. Better than putting the blog in the public domain because the Discordian License contains a cool unicode character, Ⓚ, also machine-searchable by robots. We should use this for our blog!

    San Francisco Ⓚ All Rites Reversed

    license.png

    Ⓚ2007, Planet Earth – All Rites Reversed – Reprint what you like

    Scanned copies of the Principa Discordia available at fnord

     

    • bobslobster 2:38 pm on February 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      fnord!

    • Clyde Wilson 1:33 pm on March 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Tiki
      Thanks for the shout out on my nutrition seminar! Note that I deleted the FAQs page of my web site that you linked to and instead added TONS of info to my blog (I suggest linking to that instead), where I am now daily answering people’s questions. Is is possible to link directly to your post on my seminar on my blog? I know how to link to your blog, but your post on my seminar will presumably go into archives soon. Take care, and keep the pineapple juice flowing!
      Clyde

    • rajbot 1:50 pm on March 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Clyde,

      Thanks for letting us know about your blog! I’m reading the caffeine & coffee post now!

      You can link directly to the seminar post by using this permalink URL:
      http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/03/08/clyde-wilsons-totally-kickass-nutrition-philosophy

  • rajbot 1:14 pm on February 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Photos from Dorkbot 

    I gave a short and silly opendork presentation at about TikiGraffiti last night. Here is a photo that Scott Beale of Laughing Squid took of me in front of Jonathan Moore’s and David Fine’s External Combustion Engine, an awesome machine made for monochrom’s Roböxotica festival.

    Last night was awesome.. Dorkbot, monocrom, SRL, Electrum, Tamale Lady, Mooninites, Laughing Squid, robots that make music and robots that make tiki drinks…. Sometimes I love San Francisco!

    Karen has a bunch of pictures, including a bunch from my opendork. Thanks to Karen Marcelo and Michael Shiloh for organizing, and thanks to all the awesome presenters :)

     

    • grenz 10:16 am on February 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      really great idea, thanx for the open dork statement!

      btw: monochrom and shifz.org are organizing roboexotica, those great folks should not be forgotten!

    • rajbot 1:21 pm on February 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the info… hopefully we will be in Vienna for the next roboexotica!

      if we stopped drinking for a week, we might be sober enough to build a robot of our own!

  • rajbot 2:02 am on February 16, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Announcing the TikiGraffiti WordPress captcha Plugin! 

    I got sick of our SecureImage captcha. I couldn’t type in the correct code a third of the time, and it looked ugly. So I wrote a new hacked up our existing captcha plugin to show pictures of graffiti and street art instead of computer-generated text!

    Please help me test it out by leaving a comment with a link to a picture of street art. I found some great ones in this Flickr set by Trois Tetes. You can also use Flickr Creative Commons search to “find content to modify, adapt, or build upon”. Please make sure that the image has a CC license!

    I’ll add attribution for the images and then post the code if no one finds a bug!

    Update: Get it here!

     

  • peliom 4:39 pm on December 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Mashable awards Slide.com “2006 Widget of the Year” 

    Mashable picked Slide.com as the editor’s choice in the Widgets and Add-Ons category. A co-worker observed:

    We got Editor’s Choice in our category in a contest sponsored by Photobucket.

    His point being (I think) that Photobucket re-launched their Slide Show widget this summer and Slide is still kicking ass.

    I like what Mashable has to say about our category:

    Slide.com and RockYou have been the most talked-about widgets this year, with Slide.com gaining a little more traction with the MySpace set. Both are impressive products which give users the freedom to express themselves. Even the launch of MySpace’s own service, MySpace slideshows, didn’t put a dent in the popularity of these two slideshow tools.

    Aha! I think I understand now …. :-)

    Link to Mashable’s 2006 Social Networking Awards

     

    • Pete Cashmore 4:51 pm on December 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Well, technically Photobucket couldn’t win because they were the sponsor. Plus the fact that Slide and Photobucket are actually partners.

      Did you guys develop MySpace’s own product? We heard stories, but we never heard it said publicly.

  • rajbot 1:40 am on November 30, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Apple does not license the term “podcast” 

    The Global Geek podcast wrote a check to Steve Jobs for $1 AU to license the term “podcast”. Two months later the Apple Trademark Department returned the check along with a letter that states “Apple does not object to third party usage of the generic term ‘podcast’…”.

     

  • rajbot 2:31 pm on November 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    The Google Master Plan 

    masterplan.pngI didn’t believe it at first… then I saw this! (via)

    Update: well, they pulled it down.. but it was this rambling boxes-and-arrows doodle that spanned several whiteboards..

    Update2: Here we go! It’s pretty bold releasing your master plan under a Creative Commons license!

     

  • rajbot 12:34 pm on November 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    AJAX Foundry, San Francisco 

    It’s a sewer!
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    • may 6:36 pm on November 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I saw this on your flickr page and was wondering what it was!

    • peliom 11:39 pm on November 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      There is a great “AJAX ENGINEERING” sign on 3rd street near my place … they probably made that thing. I’ll take a picture of it next time I drive by.

    • Julie Kim 4:56 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Dear rajbot,

      I am writing to see if you would grant my organization (SPUR) permission to use this photo of the sewer grate for the cover of our upcoming report on San Francisco’s sewer system. We can certainly credit you in whatever way you’d like.

      If this would be okay, do you have a higher-res version of this photo that we can use?

      Please let me know. I would be most grateful for your help!

      Julie

    • rajbot 5:12 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Julie,

      Yes, SPUR has my permission to use the photo for your report. A higher resolution version of this photo is available here.

      You can credit “TikiRobot”.

  • rajbot 4:05 pm on November 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    PHP: Visual Basic for the Web 

    “The right way to think about PHP is as Visual Basic for the Web.”
    - Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder and PHP developer

    Now whenever anyone asks me why I’m not developing in PHP, I’m just going to quote Andi Gutmans… but then I’ll have to explain the problem with using Visual Basic, I’m sure.

    My latest PHP frustatration: adding support for libcurl bindings requires recompiling PHP! In a normal scripting environment, you could just type
    cpan> install WWW::Curl so you would expect pear install curl to work for PHP. But no, you actually have to recompile!! Unfortuantely, the flickr WP plugin requires php’s curl bindings.

    /rajbot walks away, shaking his head and grumbling about the lack of block-level scope…

     

  • rajbot 1:27 pm on October 30, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Vox is MySpace with slanty lines. Also: OMG Circlez!!!!!!! 

    It seems people are getting stupider. Every morning I read about 500 websites in order get a read on the daily Global Intelligence Number. GIN has been reaching new lows lately, and you know what that means.. with stupid people come stupid advertisements. In this first of many stupid ad posts, here is an ad I saw on a bunch of blogs this morning…

    BenTrott: OK Anil, we just launched a new blogging service, so go make us some blog ads!
    AnilDash: Um, don’t we already have TypePad *and* LiveJournal?? Why do we need another one??
    MenaTrott: Anil, what our market research has shown is that bloggers have *evolved*. Today’s bloggers aren’t the same old bloggers, Anil.
    AnilDash: WTF does that mean?
    BenTrott: Well, I asked Mena’s mom, and she said that today’s bloggers like circles!
    AnilDash: Circles??
    BenTrott: And not just any circles.. concentric circles!
    MenaTrott: With pink annuli!!
    AnilDash: OMG C1RCLEZ!!!!!!!
    BenTrott: And they also like slanty lines!
    AnilDash: So Vox is MySpace with slanty lines?
    MenaTrott: Yes but not too many slanty lines! And throw in some hipsters with Hello Kitty shirts for good measure!
    AnilDash: Won’t we get sued?
    MenaTrott: *EVIL* Hello Kitty knock-offs, Anil. Get with it!

    vox.png

     

    • may 12:47 pm on October 31, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      ?????? not sure i understand this post

    • Travis 10:57 am on November 1, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      It’s like they lose their sence of reality when people make advertisments!

  • rajbot 4:49 pm on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Me and my old fogey friends… 

    Kevin pointed to some interesting stats on trends in programming language choice as reported by Ohloh. They conclude either ‘The web is being built with PHP’ -or- ‘PHP programmers write lots of extra lines of code compared to programmers using other languages’. But looking at these graphs makes one thing painfully obvious… I was born twenty years too late. Fortunately I have a bunch of friends who are also camped out in the same cave…

     

  • rajbot 8:14 am on October 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. 

    In 1972, a grad student at Indiana University, William Rapaport, came up with one of the strangest sentences in the English language: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Would you believe that Prof. Rapaport now teaches at State University of New York…… at Buffalo??? The wiki page has a bunch of similar examples, and Prof. Rapaport’s page has a bunch of background, including evidence that others had discovered the same sentence before 1972. This is a garden path sentence; it can’t be parsed word-by-word without backtracking, making it difficult for NLP algorithms to deal with.

     

    • may 12:55 pm on October 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      ouch, that just made my brain hurt.

    • bobslobster 9:20 pm on October 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      No one sentence has ever wasted so much of my time. And I’m afraid its not done…

    • rajbot 7:57 am on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Oh yeah? What about that time powers asked us if we wanted to come over for a game of Samurai Swords? Or that time skaggs called us for tennis, and we ended up spending all day doing the round-up, falling asleep on his floor, going to that computer store with lemmings and free soda on the way, and somehow managing to fit a barbeque in before our making it to the courts and then playing until the sun came up? Hmmm, now I remember I’ve been meaning to make a post about lemmings….

  • peliom 6:16 pm on October 1, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    I Just Got $125 in the Mail From Amazon.com 

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    I got “the big letter” today from the Amazon Rewards program. Just one more reason I try to buy all my stuff from Amazon. They give 3% cash back if you use their Amazon visa to purchase something from their site, and 1% cash back on all other purchases you make on that card (yes, even at regular stores). That’s real money if you’re buying yuppie toys like a projector. Forget about “miles” … this thing is the cats meow. They pay me money to spend money … what could be better than that?

    Link to the Amazon Visa Rewards program

     

  • may 7:26 am on September 12, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    If you ever happen to break your camera 

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    Jesse will know just what to do with it

     

  • rajbot 11:32 pm on September 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    The Russian Lit Major 

    I don’t really understand what our friend Dodger does at work. He works for high-tech companies, he is usually called in to help solve particularly hard problems, but he does something other than programming. So, um, what exactly do they hire him to do? He’s a Russian Lit Major!

     

  • may 11:37 pm on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Projections 

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    So, I have to admit that the zeroOne exhibit in San Jose was slightly depressing today…and not depressing in a compelling sort of way, which was too bad. (the projects at the ranch were a lot more interesting!) BUT! There was a really mesmerizing exhibit of projections by Jennifer Steinkamp at the sj museum of art which was unexpected (and totally worth seeing in person as the pics don’t do it justice).

     

  • rajbot 9:39 pm on August 3, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    JavaScript gets Block-Level Scope! 

    JavaScript 1.7 introduces the let statement, which gives JavaScript block-level scope! I’m excited about let, but much more excited about HTML Canvas. Canvas lets you make great graphics web apps with JavaScript that run in any modern browser. I’ve been playing with Canvas and have made some cool apps; I can’t wait to see what others are making!

    Hey PHP and Python: stop trying to be like Visual Basic. Get block-level scope already!

    Update: Apparently, VB.NET now has block-level scope, but it is *completely* FUBAR:

    Even if the scope of a variable is limited to a block, its lifetime is still that of the entire procedure. If you enter the block more than once during the procedure, each block variable retains its previous value. To avoid unexpected results in such a case, it is wise to initialize block variables at the beginning of the block.

     

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