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2004-12-31
Revisiting the Long Tail: Words
I read Chris Anderson’s the Long Tail a few months ago and kept nodding in agreement as I read point after point.1 If you haven’t read it, take a look.2 The Long Tail refers to the retail chart of sales vs. popularity, where the most popular titles sell in huge numbers and the sales figure drops asymptotically as you move out to the less ...
2004-12-31
Procrastinating my way to Ruby on Rails
30,000 feet view but occasionally we’ll drop down to earth.
Java and J2EE
Described as heavier than it needs to be, even by some of its advocates.
Although the argument usually moves to an enterprise-level versus prototype tool debate, I think enterprise-level reliability, if you choose an appropriate modern language, is more a function of maturity because all these languages are pretty good. PHP is being ...
2004-12-28
Images from Digital Humans CD-ROM
The Digital Humans CD-ROM documents the digitization of male and female cadavers by the Visible Human Project. When the Visible Human datasets were released to the public a decade ago, I developed programs for segmenting and reconstructing 3D models using voxel-based computer graphics techniques. It's my intention to put into the public domain the full content of the CD-ROM, including a series of videos showing the actual ...
2004-12-28
Enter the Drupal
After much dithering and review of blog & content management systems, I selected Drupal as the engine for my revised website. Why Drupal? The key reasons are:
- Ease-of-use and large selection of modules & themes
- Excellent categorization of content through taxonomy system
- Nice input filter system that lets me choose the format style (e.g. HTML or Textile) for each entry
- Clean URLs through apache mod_rewrite as well as Drupal ...
2004-12-24
Classic Movies told in 30 seconds (by bunnies)
Nod to Narin for telling me about Angry Alien Productions, a very funny collection of Flash movies. These flash movies have been around for a while, so it’s strange I’ve only seen them now. Or maybe my notions of buzz are completely warped by expectations in the Internet age.
Jennifer Shiman, the artist, is pretty humble. Couldn’t find much information about her or what compelled ...
