Crazy Optical Illusion That Makes You Hallucinate – For Real
Updated: September 28th, 2006
Dang, this was really cool, it worked on me. Try it, make this full screen by clicking here first. Don't worry, it's not one of those stare and get shitlessly scared by an ugly mug at the end.
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Bike Messengers Race In NYC
Incredible New Concept – Portal – The New Valve Game
Unbelievable Security Flaw in Regular Locks Makes Them Obsolete
Minority Report Becomes Reality
Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.
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Updated: July 23rd, 2006
Update: And I'm back!
I'm finally done here and I'm coming back to the States. Can't wait.
I've had some great times here with the guys at Blinkx as well as Autonomy at work, local pubs, and restaurants. I'm looking forward to seeing Matt, Sergio, and Andy who are going to the US for a month or two.
That is all for now, the taxi is picking me up at 6:30am, so I am pulling an all-nighter until then. See you all in California. …
Converting from CVS to SVN: Developer's Notes And Why SVN Is Better
Updated: July 17th, 2006
(Work in progress) Last week at the new company I got hired at, I was trying to push the repository approach to developing and maintaining data. For one reason or another, it wasn't being done at the time. As a CVS user and admin, I wanted to set up CVS but decided to explore other options as well, including Perforce and SVN. Well, the choice between those 2 was easy: SVN is completely free while Perforce allows only 2 licenses with $800/license beyond those 2. My first SVN impression was that it's quite different from CVS, but in a very good way. Now that I'm actively using it, I'll be adding my thoughts to this page in the …
Updated: July 15th, 2006
So a couple of days ago I finally visited London. The train from Cambridge takes about 1h15m, and the roundtrip ticket only costs 13 pounds due to some promotion. I ended up walking around a lot and taking the hop on – hop off tour bus. One day is obviously not enough to see all of London but it allowed me to see lots of famous things without entering them.
Here are the pictures: 2006.07.08 London.
And here are some videos:
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beer planet is a blog about technology, programming, computers, and geek life. It is run by Artem Russakovskii - a local San Francisco geek who is currently pursuing his own projects and regularly enjoys hacking Android, PHP, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, Perl, and regular expressions, working on Wordpress plugins and tools, tweaking MySQL queries and server settings, administering Linux machines, blogging, learning new things, and other geeky stuff.
