Archive for June, 2005
MP3 Sound Bites
Thursday, June 30th, 2005O’Reilly Network: MP3 Sound Bites: “Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical breakthrough in speech-to-text translation–and I’m not holding my breath–we’ll need to find another way to make audio content more granular, and easier to consume selectively. In the realm [...]
Linking to Specific Pages of a PDF File
Thursday, June 30th, 2005Linking to Specific Pages of a PDF File: Jon Udell points out the technique for linking to a specific page of an Adobe Acrobat file, and includes an example that goes right to page 100 of the U.S. Energy policy. He also discussses useage of the #nameddest option, which works like an HTML fragment identifier [...]
Web Works That Insist on Your Full Attention
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005Rhizome, one of the premier platforms for Internet art, is taking stock of the last 10 years by selecting 40 of the 1,500 works from its online archive and exhibiting them in one small room at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in its temporary quarters in Chelsea. The show, organized by Rhizome’s new executive [...]
Silence in Eucharistic Adoration
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005tukayo: Silence in Eucharistic Adoration
Like the Italian driver in the story we sometimes find it hard to remain quiet. Sometimes we find silence a frightening and uncomfortable experience. So we turn the radio on or make a telephone call just to break the silence.
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Beating wrong drums
Monday, June 20th, 2005The Australian has an article by two Australian academics that realistically appraises Bob Geldorf and his plan to raise more money for the Robert Mugabe Dachas in Europe.
As much as we all enjoy lectures on African poverty from musically gifted white multi-millionaires, we should at least consider, just for a moment, the possibility that rock [...]
Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails
Sunday, June 19th, 2005Learning to develop web applications with Ruby on Rails has gained a huge amount of interest lately, but for people wanting to learn Rails there are no books on the subject. That’s changed now with the pre-release of Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails , the latest book from Dave Thomas and [...]
Microsoft Avalanche P2P application
Sunday, June 19th, 2005Researchers at Microsoft’s computer science lab in Cambridge, UK, have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.The basic principle of the system, dubbed Avalanche, is pretty much the same as BitTorrent. Certainly the problem it solves is: a large file needs [...]
PHP date — Format a local time/date
Friday, June 17th, 2005string date ( string format [, int timestamp] )$hh = date(“H”);if ($hh > “11″) { after_midday() };
Fmt DescriptionDAY ===========================================================d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zerosD A textual representation of a day, three lettersj Day of the month without leading zerosl [...]
Firefox Extensions, Search Engines, Greasemonkey
Thursday, June 9th, 2005more Firefox stuff.Writing Extensions to Firefox;Add some usefull Search Engines;Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily [...]
