Archives for January 2006
23 January
"Autonomous Non-Violent Agents"
Via robots.net: War Protestor Robots for the G8 Summit.
From the project web site (loose translation from Spanish): "They do not need to eat, and they need neither training nor motivation."
What's next? Robot police to make sure they stay non-violent? Robot diplomats to participate in the summit?
21 January
iLife 06, Photocasting, and photos.case.edu
I installed iLife 06 on my Mac today. The first new feature I tried was the "photocasting" subscription support in iPhoto. It works beautifully with the photos.case.edu RSS feeds - photos, titles, and descriptions all display correctly in iPhoto. Just select File > Subscribe to Photocast, and then paste the feed URI (such as http://photos.case.edu/photos/all/rss) into the text field that appears.
You can use the photocast as the source for a screensaver, just as with any other iPhoto album. I'm not sure if the photos are updated when iPhoto is not running, though.
16 January
Weighing in on the Case Daily
I've been following the recent discussion (1, 2, 3) regarding the new Case Daily email with much interest. Overall, I think the Case Daily is a good thing because it centralizes all-campus email, which will probably result in increased uniformity and decreased volume of campus-wide email announcements. The Case Daily isn't perfect, though. Read on for my chief complaints about the mail, and some suggestions for improvement.
wiki.case.edu favicon
This morning I checked the Case wiki's Recent Changes page to see what happened while I was away. I was surprised and flattered to see my "puzzle piece" favicon in use - I hadn't noticed it there before. Thank you to whoever was responsible! (Greg or Jeremy, was that you?)