Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Action required In case you haven't already seen Robert Cringely's article about his son's death from SIDS, please make sure you go read it now. What happened is heartbreaking. It shouldn't happen period. If you can do anything to help, please do, even if it's just to spread the word. [The Shifted Librarian] 8:34:53 AM     Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More The idea of using ZIP compression as a discriminator and measure is interesting. It's not as immediately obvious as using FFT's for shapes, back when we started shape categorizations, but it may be another interesting "texture" measure for a number of classification problems. Physicists have figured out how to use zipping programs to analyze and categorize text quickly, which could lead to a system for ordering DNA and protein sequences. By Bruce Schechter. [New York Times: Technology] 7:39:46 AM     Logged In: Macromedia MX -- the Future is Already Here by Tom Hale; A blurb about Flash Player adoption and MX Useful links at the bottom for the Dreamweaver pre-release. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center] 7:27:25 AM     New Macromedia Studio MX Application Development Center by Macromedia; This is the home page for developer resources using MX. There are a couple of interesting tutorial applications, including a dealer locator and service manager interface for a fictitious car company. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center] 7:06:07 AM     It's a Cool Site, but Its Creator Is Not Done We often over-architect solutions for our customers, adding fancy workflow and notification when an email would do. This article presents a site that has a tight, focused goal: address the routine requests that a patient makes of her physician. MDhub.com, a patient-to-doctor Internet link, has had its 15 minutes of Web fame, but it has a long way to go to fulfill its creator's vision. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology] This reminds me of an simple e-commerce site a friend of mine created that delivered orders via a pager attached to the register. Simple - direct - and just what the client wanted. 7:00:13 AM

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