Wave(let)?s

A friend told me about wavelets a couple of days ago, and how industry moves to embrace them in various compression technologies. The wikipedia article told me I would probably need 6 to 12 months of hardcore maths studies to understand the theory behind wavelets, but based on my impressions, I wouldn't bother right now. I still think natural intelligence is modeled around simple waves. More to be said at another time.

adjkerntz

What time zone is it anyway? Each day makes it harder and harder to tell. Today I listened to some classics with my eyes closed for three hours on end. That kind of tricked my brain into thinking I've slept enough. It somehow learned about the trick a bit later. MusicBrainz is doing something nasty to my brain, with it's huge and buggy Picard Tagger monster. Something impossible is going on.

Music Players Are Naughty

In pursuit for perfection I have always had a few players installed on my boxes. Apart from a bunch of console-based ones, I've used xmms, both generations of beep-media-player, audacious, and lately Amarok and Listen. My guess is I'll have to wait for about 3-5 years to see MusicBrainz integration that works, with an open audio hashing technology in use, a Last.fm that doesn't push AJAX to the limit, a good client-server model, somewhat alike what mldonkey is doing and a few other nice things. Meanwhile, I'll probably keep porting new players to FreeBSD and see what users have to say.

On the Go

So this was supposed to be a post made while I was on a bus, praising Opera Mini and how mobile browsing was approaching something it should have been for a long time now, but ironically Opera screwed up the http post request, sending one text field instead of both of them. So much for my grateful attitude.

BSD-BSD

Tonight I met a bunch of OpenBSD people. In spite of what you might think, I had a great deal of fun. Wim's attitude towards other BSD systems is not very generous, but when it comes down to eye-to-eye meetings, OpenBSD guys are very outgoing. And once connections are made, you can build on that in virtual worlds.

Sisters

Yesterday night Wim Vandeputte took me and Anton Karpov to a Sisters of Mercy gig. It was great; I couldn't make most of the lyrics out, though. Now that I downloaded some bootlegs and listened to the songs with texts before my eyes, my experience is complete. They rock! The funny thing is the Live in Germany bootleg from 1990 sounds almost exactly like the gig did. I guess Andrew Eldritch doesn't age with time.

A Comeback

It's been almost two years since I started this blog, not that I've been very active around here. Anyway, I think it's high time I started posting something, so get ready to consume.