Archive for June, 2004

Boston to Madrid in 90 minutes

Posted: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004 @ 5:18 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

How could you travel from Boston to Madrid in just under 90 Minutes? seems impossible no? while it is impossible at the moment the technology to make such a trip feasable exists and could be used today to create an intercontinental train that could whisk you from Boston to Madrid in just under an hour […]

Calculate Great Circle v0.14

Posted: Saturday, June 19th, 2004 @ 11:42 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I rewrote portions of the code, two major changes and a host of small improvements.
For one thing you no longer need to hack the code in order to get the program to function (look at –help)
Second the program no longer caches the HTML file, it caches a parsed PHP array. This speeds up the program […]

Calculating Great Circle Distances

Posted: Saturday, June 19th, 2004 @ 6:43 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I wrote a program to calculate the distance between two international cities, here take a look.
In order to get a list of avaliable cities comment out the line
print_r(distance($decimal[54],$decimal[170]));
and put
print_r($decimal);
this will list the avaliable cities in a format like
[326] => Array
(
[…]

Mac OS X Cocoa

Posted: Friday, June 18th, 2004 @ 10:25 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have been very lightly trying since XCode was released to develop mac os x native apps. Not only is coca totally different from traditional objective-C programming but to make matters worse I have never actually written in objective-C. so i’m basically learning multiple complicated languages at once. who knows.
I found Build Your First Cocoa […]

August Wired

Posted: Friday, June 18th, 2004 @ 6:08 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I just took a survey for the august issue of wired. It detailed the articles and even had pictures of two possible covers

The Lost Generation: How the 18-34 Male Is Reinventing Advertising
Craig Venter’s Gene Odyssey: Inside the epic quest to discover 100 million species - and redefine life as we know it
Spielberg or Lucas? […]

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

Posted: Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 @ 1:04 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I keep getting hits in my server log from googlebot looking for 3 files (/index.rdf, /rss.xml, /atom.xml) i assume these correspond to the files /wp-rdf.php, /wp-rss.php, /wp-atom.php how to make a request to /rdf.xml translate to /wp-rdf.php ?
First i symlinked wp-rdf.php to rdf.xml however rdf files will not be parsed by the PHP interpreter so […]

Glo-Toob / Loopback Jack

Posted: Monday, June 14th, 2004 @ 7:05 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I ordered a Glo-Toob and this tiny miniature ethernet loopback jack from ThinkGeek. I ordered them like two weeks ago but due to some shipping issues they did not arrive until today.
The Glo-Toob is very nice though quite a bit smaller than i expected, it takes one tiny A23 battery which looks like a AAA […]

iTunes 4.6 / iRaq / Six Feet Under

Posted: Monday, June 14th, 2004 @ 4:04 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I install iTunes 4.6 the other day and I go to fire up “Beethoven’s Last Night” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra however iTunes presents me with a mean message that says it thinks my music is stolen because i used hymn/playFair to decode it because the most recent version of hymn left the e-mail that was […]

Hypocrisy

Posted: Sunday, June 13th, 2004 @ 8:01 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I got an e-mail from truthout about a score of new prisoner abuse photos that had been leaked. These new photos make the old photos look like a day in the park. The photos grapically depict soldiers beating people bloody. TO credited the photos to antiwar.com, a nice site with a lot of original content, […]

MEncoder/Quicktime AC3

Posted: Sunday, June 13th, 2004 @ 6:20 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have been ripping my worn Dune (CoD is next) DVD’s to Divx using this helpful guide, to clarify to anyone from the MPAA i’m not doing this to send it over the internet but because my disk is worn and skips when played.
I was originally going to use AC3 audio, however at first QuickTime […]