Jay McGavren's Journal

First Water Trail

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First Water Trail,
originally uploaded by nephariuz. </div>On the First Water trail in the Superstition Mountains.

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Us,
originally uploaded by gefyn. </div>Diana’s self portrait.

The new Flock browser inspired me to establish a del.icio.us account:

http://del.icio.us/nephariuz

I then went through my Google Search History and added everything that seemed worthwhile. It’s mostly tech and development stuff, so I won’t be participating in the shared account thing (haven’t visited any J-Pop sites in forever), but if you’re interested in such things, take a look.

Oh, and I was able to export everything from del.icio.us and import into Furl, too!

http://www.furl.net/members/nephariuz

And THEN, I found I could use tools like this!

http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name=nephariuz

What I'd do with a quantum computer...

It would take a thousand-fold increase from today’s computing power, but here’s what I’d like to see - compile-ahead development.

You know how in Firefox and some better text editors, as you type in a search, it automatically jumps ahead to the next match? When you see what you want, you simply stop typing.

Well, I’d like to see a compiler that is constantly compiling your program as you type it in. Maybe it could even run your unit tests for you. Most of the time you were typing, you’d see a red status indicator, because your program isn’t even syntactically correct while you’re still typing a line. But as soon as the program becomes compilable again (in many cases, after each line) - bam - it would be. Any errors would be waiting in another window/monitor for you to correct (or ignore, if you were expecting errors prior to completing another module).

Nobody around here had the new Boards of Canada album (well, Tower Records did, but I’m not paying $18 for it). So I ordered it off Amazon and was resigned to not getting to hear it until the package arrived.

When I completed checkout, what do I see on the page? “Now available in your Digital Locker: A stream of Boards of Canada - the Campfire Headphase.” My jaw dropped. I had thought this whole Digital Locker thing was silly, until that moment.

Sure, it’s a crappy 64K stream that only plays in Windows Media Player, but I’m in bliss right now listening to it. This is a really good album, and it’s gonna be even better on CD. Thanks, Amazon.