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Semantic Mediawiki Tutorial
I just set up Semantic Mediawiki on my Ubuntu laptop (it's a touchscreen laptop but I haven't gotten anything special working yet with touchscreen + mediawiki). The purpose of this exercise was to have a personal wiki for notetaking with more features that TomBoy. The main feature I wanted from the Semantic Medeawiki addon to mediawiki was the ( Read more... ) -
Written Language
I've written before, somewhat briefly, about how I want to be able to instant message people with handwritten, rather than typed, messages. Now, a better explanation ( Read more... ) -
A Fractal
I've long wondered about a reverse mapping of the Mandelbrot Set: give it a picture, and it tries to propose coordinates in the fractal-to-rule-all-fractals which will generate that picture. One of the chief reasons I want to do this is because everyone says the Mandelbrot set seems to contain every sort of shape you can imagine. It does contain ( Read more... ) -
Google Alerts
I use a lot of Google Alerts, and I feel like every time I take a look at them I find really interesting things and people, but I end up actually looking through the Google Alerts I receive for several reasons; first, because they are not well-organised or high-quality, second, because they are something of a timesink ( Read more... ) -
Camera
I got a new camera after dithering a bit about it. I always hesitate hoping for the best deal, but in this case it seems like what I wanted was available, so I just bought one. I am hoping that being able to take 1,500 12-megapixel pictures (4000x3000) before needing to empty it out (as opposed to 50 5-megapixel 2048x1536 images) will make it so ( Read more... ) -
Wikipedia mainly
The Internet makes it easy to make sure any question or curiosity I have can eventually turn into reading a fairly detailed account of that thing (right now I'm looking at the Wikipedia article on Mimristors). However, there is no similar guarantee that I use that knowledge for anything, and how can the usefulness of knowledge be tested without ( Read more... ) -
Self-promotion
I've always avoided promoting myself. In high school I went through the normal track rather than going to the math-science center because I would have had to get letters of recommendation. I went to a college I knew I could get into, and similarly fell into my job. But I'm doing a resumé project for an English class and it's making me think about ( Read more... ) -
Wiki web apps
A couple of days ago I saw a website for sharing code. http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=2356 It has the application for which you were viewing the code, followed by a box with the code. My first instinct was that it should be a wiki, so it would be ( Read more... ) -
Online names
I know it's sort of going out of style to call onesself by a nickname, in forums and such. I actually got told to use my real name on a mailing list once. But I can't help but hope that by the time I'm looking for work, it is acceptable to put one's internet name on business cards to ease people googling me. -
Proximity
This entry is about a user interface concept, mainly as it applies to Firefox tabs (which is probably currently the dominant task management interface ( Read more... )