They mysterious person posting some of my european photos in asian bulletin boards is still doing it. Posting #3 Posting #4

Several of the pictures I took in France and Monte Carlo have been posted by some unknown person on this page, and then also on this page. Could anyone interpret the gist of the text on these pages? I just wonder what people are saying about them. ;)

Using flash to create dynamic desktop backgrounds is a fascinating idea. I just saw ”swf Desktop, which claims to make doing this easy, mentioned on MacNN.

The local RC track my brother races at could have a wallpaper with photos of last week’s race, and schedule information in on the next week’s race…

There I was a few years ago, doing unholy things emulating on my linux router a particular online game’s flaky game-listing server (it used it’s own binary protocol). I was merrily coding away poring through a packet sniffer dump, and then coding with PHP and TCPSERVER.

Suddenly a concept hit me. Everything in linux is a file. Everything. I was awestruck. Since everything was a file, and every programing language I had seen could read and write files, that meant that I could do anything I wanted to do with any programing language I wanted to use. I had to walk outside and get a fresh air. Because everything was a file, I could do everything with just a bit of coding.

The computer was no longer a mysterious beast, but a trusted inanimate object that I could wield to do my will.

Today, while reading though Eric Raymond’s, The Art of Unix Programming for the first time, I came upon a section entitled, ”What Is the Operating System’s Unifying Idea?”. I eagerly began reading it. Eric said, “The most important of these are probably the “everything is a file” model…”

Both Martin Fowler and Simon Willison are talking about using Xpath with the coding language of your choice, as a much simpler alternative to XSLT.

• Using XPath to mine XHTML
• Moving Away From Xslt

I have been monkeying around with Xpath in PHP using Php.XPath.

Good sign you have a redneck for a brother: When the phrase “The best defense is good offense” comes up when he is talking about preferred driving style.

Good sign you are a nerd: When your redneck brother asks, “You wore that to work today?!”

A passive radar system that uses cellphone towers to track every vehicle on the road! So the this Business Week article screams - at least to my privacy liking mind. (Link via Gizmodo)

Here is an actual company’s site on Celldar. From looking at the diagrams, one of it being used to watch traffic, I see there is nothing magic here. Someone finally is making use of all that “free energy” that is constantly being emitted from known fixed points.

My envy level has just climbed a little higher. Looks like they will be eating well at the awesome Zap Your PRAM conference.

I was within an inch of disabling comments on my site last night. Since I started braino.org to last week, I have only got two comment spams. This week they started attacking. Yesterday I had to delete 11 of them.

This morning I saw Mt-Blacklist, and I’m hoping it will allow me to keep comments open.

Gotcha. The tireless Avi Bryant ;) explains where continuations should be used. It makes sense. Now I understand.