Google / T-Mobile G1 Report

2008-10-22T11:12:00.000-07:00

Like many others, I received my T-Mobile G1 yesterday. I was a Hiptop / Sidekick user, so early in fact that I got interviewed twice. I stuck with the Hiptop platform up through the Microsoft acquisition, and beyond, but the initial happiness I felt with the device was eventually overshadowed by the business model of T-Mobile and Danger, which was an insidious kind of walled garden. Like some

Joe Weizenbaum

2008-03-14T16:07:00.000-07:00

I was saddened to read of the passing of Joe Weizenbaum. One of my MIT admission essays was on his book Computer Power and Human Reason. As a student (through the graces of Profs. Hal Abelson, Andy diSessa, Gerry Sussman, and Seymour Papert) I had an office in Tech Square, right near Prof. Weizenbaum, so I saw him nearly every day. After nearly ten years, everyone agreed it was time for me to

Java error highlighting in Emacs

2008-02-07T10:54:00.000-08:00

I read about this from credmp but it required JDE, which I don't use, and it had a few bugs. Here's what I'm currently using: ;;; -*-EMACS-LISP-*- ;;; Flymake for Java using Eclipse ECJ ;;; ;;; Adapted from ;;; http://www.credmp.org/index.php/2007/07/20/on-the-fly-syntax-checking-java-in-emacs/ ;;; and removed JDE requiresments. ;;; ;;; To use: ;;; (defun my-java-mode-hook () ;;; (

shibumiscript

2008-02-05T12:20:00.000-08:00

I've created a new weblog to discuss shibumiscript, a declarative approach to dynamic web pages, forms, and applications which combines the big ideas of XForms with the fluidity of AJAX libraries.

Remove HTML Background Marklet

2007-01-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

Have you ever come upon a web page that is unreadable because of the background image or color? Try this bookmarklet: Create a new bookmark in your browser Put this text in the URL for the bookmark, as one line Just click on the bookmark when you want to clear the page background. javascript:(function() {a=document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for(b=0;b

Wiki Talk

2006-04-24T19:10:00.000-07:00

I am at the Ward Cunningham/John Gage talk on Wikis at the Computer History Museum. I ran into Ken Pier, formerly of PARC and now at SocialText, and we chatted about kids and computers. Ken pointed out Doug Engelbart who passed by.

Underwhelming

2005-09-07T13:32:00.000-07:00

Underwhelming.

2005-06-12T16:20:00.000-07:00

Outside

2005-06-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

Porta potty arrived.

2005-06-06T15:44:00.000-07:00

There was a bad smell of smoke I turned on my VX-2 just in time to hear them report a Fdumpster fire in my parking lot. I went outside to get away from the burning plastic smell, and get an espresso on the way.

2005-05-31T12:41:00.000-07:00

When we bought our house 14 years ago, I bought a Makita cordless drill, 9.6v. When the batteries wouldn't hold a charge any more and I couldn't find replacements, I priced a new Ryobi, but just happened to read that there was a "Tim Allen Home Improvement" line that was rebadged Ryobi for $30 less. I compared them at OSH and they were indeed the same, so I bought it, 12v. Now we are

Test Post

2005-05-31T11:41:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite post

2005-05-28T19:43:00.000-07:00

Anniversary dinner

2005-05-01T18:51:00.000-07:00

Lou, at the PARC / Xerox coffee bar.

2005-03-29T13:27:00.000-08:00

2005-03-27T11:26:00.000-08:00

Sailing the Hidenburg II.

2005-03-27T09:54:00.000-08:00

Blog

2005-03-04T12:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.dallas.net/~jvpoll/tech/ph_mag.html

2005-03-01T17:43:00.000-08:00

Slashdot | Webcam Jigsaw Solver in 200 Lines of Python I slashdotted PARC.

Google Maps for Emacs

2005-02-21T08:49:00.000-08:00

I saw a blog dissecting XML in Google Maps and forwarded the pointer off to TV Raman, who implemented Google Maps for Emacs, in particular for EmacsSpeak.

XSLT Duplicate Elimination

2005-02-02T14:40:00.000-08:00

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x/y/z is the xpath expression that you want made unique. It can be concat(x,'-',@y,'-

2005-02-02T14:13:00.000-08:00

How do you write an XSLT transformation that lets you change just one part of a big, unknown document? http://www.xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2000-11/msg01097.html

libgcj-java-placeholder.sh

2005-01-26T11:35:00.000-08:00

GCJ installs itself in the alternatives system. Here is an RPM that addds Sun's Java to the alternatives system. http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=571177&messageID=2827642 is discussion about the issue. Once you install sunjavafix-ub-1-ub3.noarch.rpm , you can do alternatives --config java to switch back to GCJ as the default, if you need to.

2005-01-06T16:34:00.001-08:00

3. It moved /etc/named.conf to /etc/named.conf.rpmsave and trashed my DNS.

2005-01-06T16:34:00.000-08:00

I upgraded from Redhat 9 (RH9) to Fedora Core 3 (FC3) and encountered the following problems: 1. I had to uninstalle imap and install dovecot by hand and edit the /etc/dovecot.conf "default_mail_env = mbox=%h/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u" because it assumes if the directory is called Mail/ it's mailir and if it's mail/ it's mbox. 2. Firefox failed to start, silently. I removed /usr/lib/

Leigh L. Klotz, Jr.