Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media

Slashdot is a running an interesting story about the issue of losing digital media with private files, like photographs, and about someone else using it when found. It links to the blog (with the cool name “I Found Some Of Your Life”) of the guy, who found a CompactFlash (or something similar) with 227 images in the taxi. He started the blog with a daily post of one photograph from that collection and his own comments about it.

As many people, as many opinions they say. Some people are very concerned about privacy. Some are not so. You lose something, you lose something. Of course, it might be really uncomfortable to find your private parts all over the Internet (not the case here), but than try to not to do anything that you might regret afterwards. I think if I found someone else’s media with files, I would try to return it. But I wouldn’t go into great effort to do so. Just some trivia. If that fails, I might as well post all of the content to the web. This way the owner will have a better chance of finding it. :)

Picture of the day

Old singSomehow I failed to get back home from my yesterday’s night shift until today’s evening. Lots of home tasks and general sleepyness tried to stopped me from doing something for the ‘Picture of the day’ project of mine, but I am unstoppable.

Without much strength and will to go outside I decided to find something new in my home. And the first thing that pops up into a spoiled mind like mine is, of course, the bathroom. I have made a number of pictures there, which I think are more than enough to represent today in the POTD project.

Check all the pictures here.

Mozilla Firefox downloads jump through the roof

You have most probably read it already at Slashdot or a number of other places – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been downloaded more than 1 million times over a period of just 4 days. The original campaign reserved 10 days for this amount of downloads. With such a hype, can they go over 2 million downloads?

Well, I did my part…. Now, you spread Firefox.

Gmane – Mail To News And Back Again

Gmane – is an interesting project that provides archiving and comfortable interface to a huge number of mailing lists. What they do is subscribe to a huge number of mailing lists, receive and index messages. They also provide archives over web and NNTP (news). And they even allow to post without subscribing to mailing lists (they do use one-time confirmation though).

Sounds good? Add to that that the service is totally free, and it willsound even better than good.

Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl

There is a very interesting article at Perl.com. It is about building a search engine using perl language. The interesting part is that the article is not about the usual reverse index type search engines. It takes a different approach – vector space searching.

Reading the article reminded me of the few things:

  • The subject of searching is interesting to me.
  • Perl is great!
  • Linear algebra is actually useful and I should take it again (and pass it this time).