Blog Oct 25, 2006

Greetings,

You may be wondering why I am updating this site more regularly than other sites, such as Javantea's Fate. JF is no longer in production (it's been put aside for two projects that are more interesting to me). Since this is the second and thus most interesting applicable site, it is where I post my blog. It's a developer blog, similar to Making of Javantea's Fate. I stopped posting blogs at #378, posted on 2006-03-07. How far will this blog go? Hopefully I'll move onto another project before Spring, but I'll probably post a note or two here just for kicks (in the same sense that I plan to post blogs on JF now).

Enough analysis, what have I been up to? The big project for today and a few days in the past week finally came to fruition today. This is a web cam algorithm input method for development of advanced motion/feature recognition system. Basically, it's a something that allows a Linux user to use their webcam in the way of their choosing, unlike those poor YouTube kids who can only put on glasses, or use their imagination. What specifically can I code with this web cam input method? I can put funky glasses on, I can rotoscope in real-time, I can do gaussian blur, motion blur, random drawing. But my plan is to use it for Seattle Wireless Field Day this Saturday. This nifty screenshot is all I have to show you for it:
Web Cam Input Method 5, screen f

Updating this site and uploading support images to this site are much easier than JF, even though JF was not very difficult. Actually I suspect that with just a tiny bit of documentation and e-mail/IM support, a large number of people could be taught to use my system. But that's support to the actual reason that this website is here.

Think for a moment about how much work goes into support of a project. It actually seems like I've spent more time supporting my various projects than I have actually writing the projects. That's a sad fact of life. I actually like designing projects really well and so the more the better. Each support project is of course a project in itself, so I end up spending a lot of time having fun creating projects to support projects. Looking back on it, it has been a grand investment in something that I have not yet reaped. I guess you reap what you sow.

I've been thinking that the person that mints the first open philosophy website that gets popular is going to really make something worthwhile. Slashdot does quite a good job, but it focuses on technology. I discussed philosophy with three friends tonight and we had a good discussion. The problem with discussing philosophy in person is that it doesn't get recorded. It needs to be reargued every time that people get together. This way, philosophy advances linearally, while technology and written philosophy widely accepted often grow exponentially. The ability to search the web for discussions on both sides of an argument argued properly is an important thing. The fact that AltSci Open Philosophy Journal is not the top interest of my company is something that I feel slightly sad about. Perhaps you could do something about that by joining AltSci Open Philosophy Journal and e-mailing me to start it up. Naw, I haven't gotten it up and running yet.. Perhaps a better way is to write your own philosophy blog.

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