Experimenting with Flock

Just downloaded Flock, a new 'social browser'. It's still in development - the first page I tried to view crashed the browser - but it's pretty cool and basically functional.

It's considered a 'social browser' because it incorporates many popular social web services such as Flickr (photo sharing), Delicious (bookmark sharing), Technorati ("what's happening on the web right now"), blogs and news aggregation.

Flaming Almond

Toosh Brain eats a flaming almond while wearing a Google t-shirt, a sombrero and listening to Radiohead.

Who do you support?

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out next Friday, the 18th of November.

Amazon Bestsellers

Sometimes, I like to check out what's going on in the world by seeing what people are currently interested in. So, I go to Amazon.com and check out their top selling books.

Seeing this listing of books makes me think about the things that I am currently interested in and excites new interests. Many of the books on this list have Amazon's 'Search Inside' feature. This lets you actually read portions of the book and get a feel for whether you would like it or not. Pretty cool.

SCWCD

Today starts the intense journey into the world of Java Servlets and Java ServerPages. I hope to pass the Sun Certified Web Component Developer certification (SCWCD) exam within three weeks.

Feeling refreshed.

Did some thinking. Did some writing. Off to something new and different. Everyday.

Happy Diwali

Today is Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. A time to change for the better.

Card reading robot

For a special event for work, I built and programmed a LEGO Mindstorms robot used to fetch business cards.

The programming was done using leJOS, an open-source Java API developed specifically for the LEGO RCX.

Here are some pictures of the robot:

Initial post

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