I found this interesting site on digg.com the other day called LikeBetter. It allows you to go through and pick which photos you like better of the two displayed on the screen. If you sign up it will keep your choices and you can see if people are like you. I haven’t really seen much of a purpose or ultimate goal for this site, but it’s fun anyhow.

Other than that random link, I posted a page with my program “Restart Autorun ver. 1.0“. It’s a small Java program that allows you to restart all of the programs that start when Windows starts. This could be useful for use after playing a game, for instance. To learn more about it, go check it out.

-Tom

The web…

We all know it, and use it almost everyday. But I never realized how much work actually goes into a site, let alone the amount of work it takes to get MySQL, PHP and web server talking to each other. So, for now I am using The Uniform Server to host. This is running on a AMD K6-2 400Mhz OC box with Win 2000 (Yuck!). But I suppose for now with lack of cash being the word of the day, and no desire to move to Linux just quite yet. The only bad part is Apache in the build of TUS keeps crashing it seems like every time it writes to the MySQL DB. But I hope I can find the problem, because the alternatives will be a lot of work to implement.

Speaking of the web, I found a neat little article on my favorite news site that has some screenies of Web 1.0. It makes me chuckle to see some of these corporate websites that look like a 5-year-old did them. The web has come so far. Remember to sign up for digg, and digg the articles you like. Digg is nothing w/o us!

-Tom

More news today, and a FOTP:So, browsing digg.com and I noticed an article about a programming language called KPL, which stands for Kids Programming Language. This will allow even the most novice programmer be able to pick up an IDE and just start writing readable code that can do things such as manipulate sprites, and 3D applications in 100 lines or less! I’ve dev’ed in Java before, and this is an amazing feat. Currently KPL is only in version 1, and version 2 is only in alpha, but it is roughly 10 times faster for certain executions. This looks very promising for high schools in the future. The whole idea behind the project was to make programming an almost instantaneous gratifying experience, and I think that goal has been met. 

In other news, yesterday Apple announced a Video iPod with a 4” screen. Supposedly it will sport a touch screen and movies will be able to be purchased from iTunes. One more thing for the MPAA to gripe about, yay…

As for WoW ever making its debut on the Xbox 360, it looks as if that is not going to happen.

“We do not have any plans to take WoW to Xbox 360,” Blizzard COO Paul Sams told MCV. “WoW is built as a PC gaming experience. Porting PC games to console often compromises games, and we’d never allow the WoW gameplay experience to suffer.”

That’s ok, I suppose, I couldn’t really see how World of Warcraft gameplay would be a whole lot of fun on the Xbox anyways, but what do I know.And finally, today the Catholic Church just got a little bit more classical, as in classical music. Pope Benedict XVI got an iPod on Friday. 

FOTP: TagWorld.com “Think MySpace, on fire, going 150 MPH though a school zone, being chased by ninjas.” (Thanks Bungie)

I haven’t personally signed up for a TagWorld account yet, but the Web 2.0 App looks freakin’ cool. Drag and drop interface, and so much more customizability than MySpace, but yet organization that doesn’t leave you searching the page for the person’s info. PLUS VERYTHING IS TAGGED. This makes searching so easy. If you have a social life, dump MySpace and get to TagWorld

-Tom