http://dcostanet.net/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 05 May 2006 14:53:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From ABC News : Rumsfeld making a speech in Atlanta recently. Rumsfeld said Bush, who made the threat posed by Iraq's weapons his main justification for war, also "spent weeks and weeks with the Central Intelligence people" before making his case to the American people."They gave the world ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/05/05/rummy/ (via John Tokash) This video is demo of what the QuickCam Orbit MP is capable of. You can add one of dozens of augmentations ranging from hats to glasses to full blown avatars to your video chat experience. All of the effects utilize face tracking to keep in synch ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/30/two-online-videos/ Vernor Vinge has a new novel coming out on May 2nd called Rainbow's end. I really liked his previous novels, A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Vinge is a mathematician who used to teach at San Diego State University, but he retired to write full ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/27/rainbows-end/ GWB appointed a new press secretary. BBC's headline : Radio host is new Bush spokesman CNN's headline : Fox anchor named Bush press secretary Guess which one provokes more derision and maniacal laughter. I wonder what the Onion will have to say next week. http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/26/us-press-secretary/ Since people were waving tasks around several months ago and I finally got tired of atom feeds showing up incorrectly in Gregarius, I decided to port some of Feedparser tests to Magpie. I created a rudimentary ajax-ified unit testing harness for Magpie. You can download it to your webserver ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/26/magpie-unit-tests/ Dreamhost is doing some strange things with my php scripts. Why are you stealing my newlines? For some strange reason newlines at the end of files seem to be eaten. Take a look at these two php files. < ?phpecho "This string has no newline at the end";?> and < ?phpecho "This first string has a newline at the end\n";?> If you wget these two files (file1, ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/26/dreamhost-quirks/ Via Factoids (an excellent little site at UChicago) I learnt about the MUSEUM PASSPORTS at the Chicago Public Library. You can check out a museum passport for 1 week from any of the Chicago Public Libraries. It gives you (and your immediate family) absolutely free access to 11 museums in ... http://dcostanet.net/wordpress/2006/04/25/chicago-museums/