November 20, 2008
hosting upgrade
The ISP company that originally hosted this site is long gone, but due to inertia I had not asked for any sort of server upgrade when the site changed hands. Now I have been involuntarily migrated to a new host.
Now that I have figured out the new database setup for MovableType (still using version 2.64) I can post again. Of course I really ought to upgrade MT as well, or try out some other blogging tools. I also now have access to Python, and it looks like cvs as well as svn.
Maybe some day in the future I can allow blog comments again.
November 07, 2008
Reading for October, 2008
Flying Finish (1966) by Dick Francis.
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008) by Nicholas Carr. Carr was on some talk show and sounded interesting. The book, however, doesn't really hold together. Instead of providing further insights into the future of computing-as-utility, the book resorts to cheerleading and [brand] name dropping.
Excession by Iain M. Banks.
November 05, 2008
Augmented Reality Figure
A Japanese toy company is selling an interactive AR based figure. [[Gizmodo story]] Given that the doll is virtual and appears only on the computer screen, I wonder what exactly you get for $125. Is it just a box full of fiduciary markers?