Fine reading for today: Thanksgiving Essay: In Praise of Average by Charles Hugh Smith. Mediocrity, excellence, cheating, status, American culture.   more »

Toying with Actionscript. Finally made a Flash .swf file with an animated square spinning around. Used haxe and swfmill. Searching web for good tutorials, examples, tips and tricks suitable for linux users doing it all from scratch at the command line. Here is one: The Natural Entry Point Method (Tutorial & Source Files) - Introducing A New Way to ...   more »

Been writing image processing program in Ruby. I haven't had time to try any image processing libraries/modules/whatever. Haven't gotten far at all. At CICLOPS, i tried writing a Ruby script to automated fetching a variety of information about an image from our databases. That turned out to be easy. At first, i used the Mysql class directly, but as ...   more »