/life/Welcoming Foreign Dignitaries
I haven't seen the skies so clear since three years, two months and 19 days ago. It was immediately noticeable, though it wouldn't have been if it wasn't such a clear morning.
I'm heading off to downtown to see what all the ruckus is about. Certainly sounds like everything should be peaceful and happy. I'm not very interested in getting arrested, so I probably will stay away from anything really exciting.
/photos/New Photos, New Software!
I ported the gallery software from perl (ick!) to PHP, and made some changes along the way. You should now be able to get a decent view of things just from the new (much larger) "thumbnails" view. Hover your mouse over an image to get the first part of its caption.
I may introduce an even smaller version for people on even slower connections, but that'll come later.
One of the bugs right now is that the gallery list doesn't show you accurate information about the order of the galleries. The newest ones are Distortia 2, Great Great Great Grandfather, Dad's Birthday Party, Craig Cardiff Show, Convocation Weekend, A Bit Of Ottawa.
These aren't all captioned, but I'll get to it soon.
Also, I've password-protected the galleries that have various family in them that might not be happy to be posted on the internet. The login name is "ewaschuk", and if you read my blog, I'm happy to give you the password. (If I grew up on Oak Street, the password would be "oak".)
Secret clues! Right in line with the movie I saw tonight. I'll give you a hint: it's the first Nicholas Cage movie I've seen in cinemas since Snake Eyes.
/tech/MobileNote
So I'm working on my very own mobile application. It's a simple package to write short notes - grocery lists, musicians or authors I hear about and want to look into, etc. My Nokia 3100 lets me attached notes to people, and to dates, but there's no way for me to just write down a simple note. Until now. (Actually, there might have been before...I didn't really look, since I needed a project to learn about J2ME anyway.)
Yes, that's right folks, you can install your very own copy of MobileNote v0.2.0! Just point your Java-capable phone's web browser (your phone does have a web browser and Java, right?) to http://rob.infinitepigeons.org/mob/MobileNote.jad, and let the internet do its magic. Then tell me all the ways it went wrong.
It's totally pre-release, don't trust it for anything. There's a synchronize feature that lets you upload your notes, but currently that's pretty much only for my use. It'll be all fixed up RSN, though.
I'd also dig suggestions for names. "MobileNote" is the working title. "MobiNote" is next in line.
/extrospect/Predictions
That's the sound of my election prediction career being rather shortlived.
Conversation Julia Ewaschuk at 2004-11-02 21:07:
(21:07:51) Julia Ewaschuk: so, do you still think kerry's going to win?
(21:08:00) Rob Ewaschuk: yup.
(21:08:07) Julia Ewaschuk: sweet.
(21:08:10) Rob Ewaschuk: confident as an ewaschuk who's wrong.
(21:08:11) Rob Ewaschuk: :-)
(21:08:28) Julia Ewaschuk: excellent.
Yeah.
/extrospect/US Election Predictions
Just for fun, so on Wednesday people can point and laugh at my confident wrongness: I predict that Kerry will win.
Moreover, I predict that he will win with sufficient decisiveness that the ensuing legal battles will be only interesting to people like me who read too much about the American elections.
That's all.
Comments
patty wrote
I predict that Bush will win. The main reason is popular fear, as propogated by media and Bush campaign and voters own selves. I predict that Bush will go to war with Iran within the first two years of this second (and thanks goodness final)term. I also agree that there will be no drawn out court battles to determine the outcome of the election, although there will be court battles regarding voting procedure and intimidation (Ohio!!!) I predict that voter turnout will be record, but unlike the norm this will not largely translate to Democrat votes but also to fear votes for Bush. I am hope hope hoping that I am wrong..
jim wrote
Me too. Pessimism has always been the final verdict in US election prediction.
I can confidently predict not just patty's expected invastion of Iran, but also a harrowing conquest of heaven,
undertaken as the bush regime gradually learns that it's religious beliefs are in fact totally wrong, and subsequently attempts to institute a new kingdom of heaven.
be on the watch for the Fox(tm) Rapture!
I also hope I die before the worst of this prediction becomes S.O.P. Sig Heil, etc., --Jim
