Dexterous robot conquers art of origami: Modelling the creation of an origami model is also mathematically and computationally complex. The designer’s website
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May 302004
This site is on a list of Bookmarks for standards testing on one of Joe Clark’s sites (look for “Backgrounds”). I can’t figure out if it’s supposed to be a good or bad example, so that makes me kind of nervous.
May 302004
Arghh! Can’t figure out how to do redirects on the MT entries. The solutions I’ve found all seem to assume that you’ve archived in a archive/YEAR/MONTH/DAY directory structure. Or that post_ids in MT equal the post_ids in WordPress.
May 292004
Quicktags don’t work quite right in Opera. Tags will only be inserted at the end of the current text.
May 292004
Created a database for WordPress at Dreamhost. Wombat Nation’s cheat sheet came in handy, if only to confirm that I hadn’t screwed it up. I exported my MT blog to a text file, then ran wp-admin/import-mt.php to import the entries. The first clue that something was wrong was that import-mp thought there were a dozen [...]
May 262004
Dorothea offers some real food for thought in On Failure and Its Contentments. I’m not sure I have anything to add except that I know some of those never-failing people, and this gives me some new insight into them.
May 262004
My neighbor just finished scraping all the popcorn finish off her ceilings. I’m jealous. I very much hate my popcorn ceilings.
May 262004
Today I discovered that for some reason (undoubtedly having something to do with mechanics, or physics, and my beloved is going to help me understand which and why) it is possible to push a shopping cart with one hand and a wheelchair with the other and still more or less go in the direction you [...]
May 262004
Unfortunately, WhoIs Ultra doesn’t seem to be very reliable. It’s reporting some available domains as registered, and it says that my domains (very registered, I assure you) are available.
May 252004
The trouble with lying around sick in bed all day surfing the web is that nobody is doing hourly updates to their stuff. Random things I’ve discovered today: WhoIs Ultra – a very nifty whois application, much more fun than trying to get info out of Network Solutions. FlyerTalk.com – a frequent flyer website, includes [...]
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