Thu 20 Mar 2008
Okay I am REALLY tired. We didn’t get back from Disneyland until 1am or so then I had to take a shower to warm up (why you ask? patience say I). Today was the second to last day of PeopleSoft training and I am very relieved I am somewhat home sick and, as much as I like it here I want to go home.
Wed 19 Mar 2008
I am writing this yesterday,, spooky. I am preparing this in advance as I hope to be in Disneyland when I would ordinarily be posting this. I hope to keep writing here after this trip. It is amazing the things I can get up to when don’t have video games to distract me. I do have a pretty damn good book with me. I got it for my birthday and it is really good so far and so far is page 180 of 312.
Tue 18 Mar 2008
Okay well the food at the market today was not all I had hoped, probably because I went back on my word and didn’t get an omelet covered in tomato sauce. Instead I got some rammen something or other which was tasty. The problem arrived with the rice covered in mucusy goo soaked beans. I took a picture but I am too lazy right now to pull it off of my phone, crop it, and post it. I tried to eat it but it just tasted too nasty. Sort of like baked beans with out the sweetness.
Mon 17 Mar 2008
Okay so since the traveling is done,,, does this even count as a ‘travel’ log? Whatever.
okay so Assassins Creed was a lot of fun. I am happy I finished it before I left for Costa Mesa. Though playing it for three hours Sunday before I left may not have been the greatest idea ever. I arrived here around 4pm on Sunday and I wanted to walk around to scout out places to eat and see what the place looked like. It was kind of cool and over cast, I only brought one warm layer, a hoodie, medium gray. I also brought a knife,, why? Because I always have a knife,, or almost always.
Sun 16 Mar 2008
Ah Costa Mesa, the city of lights mixed income levels. So I am in Costa Mesa, CA. for the next few days for PeopleSoft training. The actual training starts tomorrow (on St. Patric’s day! woo). So far the experience is agreeable. I found the hotel with out any difficulty, thanks to Google and the slightly creepy street view feature of Google maps.
Sun 3 Feb 2008
I’m making a note here: Huge Success!
Fri 18 Jan 2008
Interestingly enough I had a talk recently about the possible rights and such of robots. I thought of it as nothing more than an interesting thought exercise: at what point will robotic entities be considered to fall under governmental sanctions? How advanced does a robot have to become before someone, somewhere, decides it too should be allowed a set of inseparable ‘human’ rights? As so typically happens with me, shortly there after there was an article recently over at io9 about a conference at Stanford about what happens when robots commit war crimes. This isn’t speculation, this isn’t sci-fi (at least not anymore) this is something we are facing NOW. crazy world. Awesome future world.
Mon 14 Jan 2008
So many of the systems of yore are now availible under one banner,,, soon the world will be dominated. But the interesting thing is,, it’s competition that keeps things alive,, a lesson that may have finally been learned.
Tue 11 Dec 2007
The other day the following comic from XKCD struck me as amusing:
It also made me think, the last gift I got my mother was a robot. I bought my mother a roomba and now she has a robot roaming free in her home. I may be working with a team designing a robotic soccer team. My friends mother was buying digital picture frames for her parents. We live in a science fiction world and NO ONE NOTICED. We all carry communicators. I am laying in bed typing this on a machine about 10000 times more powerful than what sent men to the moon. If the allies had this computer during WWII Hitler would have been dead,,,, crap godwins law.
Wed 5 Dec 2007
So Google is pushing their new android platform for mobile devices. I have downloaded the API but I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. If the big G follows the pattern of the past it will probably be pretty easy to work with. I am pleased with this development. I have many reasons ($10,000,000us is not the least of them) one of the biggest is the fact that it is open source. I think having a project that is open to the community of developers is the best way of ensuring a good product. Essentially this gives a good chance that your product will play well with others, an idea shunned by many.
It has always seemed to me that by making your product only work with your other products that you are cutting yourself off from a valuable portion of market share. If you make your product the best, then allow EVERY one to use it than people will love you. If you tell people it’s the best then force them to use it they will resent you. Well actually a lot of people will follow your lead regardless. There will always be the few that are interested in their own way though.
