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Archive for January, 2005

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Adam Curry mentioned this article in his podcast yesterday; And I’m guessing just about all of you need to read this, because I am so tired of charset encoding related bugs :)

Joel on Software – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

According to slashdot; tc writes “MSNBC is reporting that an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy fame. Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. This seems like a fitting tribute to me.”

Slashdot | Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams

Beta: Google Video Search

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

About Google Video
Our mission is to organize the world’s information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.

How are the still images created?
Google Video automatically generates images from the video stream of programs we find. We offer a snippet of info about programs to help you better decide whether you’re interested in watching them.

Google Video Search

Blake Ross: The Firefox religion

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

Blake Ross writes about the Firefox phenomenon; One of the questions
I’m asked most frequently by innocent observers of the Firefox phenomenon is: “What’s all the fuss about? It just surfs the web.�

blakeross.com : The Firefox religion

Machine Learns Games

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

According to slashdot.org; heptapod writes “New Scientist is reporting that UK researchers have created a computer that can learn rock, paper, scissors by observing humans. CogVis uses visual information to recognize events and objects in addition to learning by observing.”

Slashdot | Machine Learns Games