Posted by Eric Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT
After several months of part-time hacking, I've finally gotten this site on the air. As described in my original site design document, everything is based on XML, Emacs and Perl. The RSS feeds, cross-references and archive system all appear to be working properly.
If you're interested in automating your news site with these tools, please let me know--if there's enough demand, I'll refactor the code a bit and package it up for distribution.
Posted by Eric Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Ogg Theora is an open source project hoping to create a free, unencumbered video playback system based on the Ogg Vorbis audio codec and the VP3 video codec. This is probably our best hope for a royalty- and patent-free alternative to MPEG4 in the immediate future.
Posted by Eric Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Random Hacks is my personal news and diary website. The design of Random Hacks is heavily inspired by Dave Winer's Scripting News website, and by his Radio UserLand weblogging product. But although I'm heavily inspired by Dave's work, I've chosen to write my own software. My reasons: long-term compatibility and ease of updating.
Read more...Posted by Eric Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
I have this theory: Unix actually died of chronic obsolescence in the late 70's, but was raised from the dead in a vile demonic pact. Sure, you can throw hand grenades at Unix, but when the smoke clears, all the little parts will still be twitching. In an hour or two, Unix will reassemble itself, and start shuffling towards you again with that blank zombie stare. (And in today's cutthroat operating system market, being undead is probably a survival trait.)
Posted by Eric Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Brunching Shuttlecocks: Thoughts from the 2002 U.S. Pairs Figure Skating Championship. I have much the same problem when I try to watch sports.
Posted by Eric Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
More humor from Brunching Shuttlecocks: Many say that DOS is the dark side, but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.
Posted by Eric Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
The other day, I was expounding the virtues of Debian GNU/Linux to an acquaintance. "Debain includes thousands of programs, and they're very nicely packaged. You just type in the name of a program, and Debian will download and install it for you."
"Oh," he said, "I used to use the Macintosh, but now I use Windows because I can get all my software for free. I just use Kazaa."
Eric Kidd lives in Vermont, where he works as the lead programmer on a 2D/3D multimedia engine.
He's into compilers, robotics, and programming language design. He's an unapologetic Lisp geek, and has recently been trying to port his favorite Lisp macros to Ruby.
