matt

Tizen
[23:59:28] Psi.generay Looking at the Tizen site, the first thing I looked at was the devices page which contains no devices, but target platforms (Smartphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, Netbook); it reminds me of MeeGo 18 months ago.

I look forward to Nokia's next platform 18 months down the road, for Smarphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, and Netbook devices.

https://www.tizen.org/devices

Palm webOS Mail Client
[14:16:33] Trip The Palm webOS v3 mail client I've complained about before. It's frustrating to use, no PGP, quoting is broken and it's somewhat awkward to use for large mailboxes (it seems reasonable if you only have a couple boxes you want to check). It also doesn't set or read flags from the mailbox, but you can set locally stored flags on the tablet.

It also seems to send multipart/alternative messages with exactly one part, text/html, which is a brainfuck. I also don't see any message ID which is confusing. I'm not sure why qmail isn't adding one automatically unless it's because it's local delivery.

Murder Status
[15:59:18] Psi.generay I was working on http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/murder/ and hoping to push out a second point release in March; obviously I didn't do that.

Murder, for those who aren't aware, was my attempt at bringing back finger(1) and modernizing it for our Web-first world. Finger and the finter protocol was an easy way for computer users to provide information about themselves and for other users to get a little bit more information about them or check their status. It's what you used before Friendster, which is what you never used before you used Facebook. The benefit of Murder over either of those is that it's designed to be descentralized (as was my Orkut-inspired [this is what you would use instead of Facebook if you are Brazillian, Indian, or a Finnish kid just learning about the lintu and mehilainen] Cork). Murder goes beyond those inspirations to be configured entirely from a shell account much as finger(1) was used, which also means it requires minimal permissions at the server level.

While I haven't pushed the point release, because of lots of craziness going on this summer, I might not push out the next release until August. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully I'll add some beneficial features for then.

Smith Barney
[11:53:09] Trip Around the time Citi bought Smith Barney, they went from a usable, albeit non-stylish Web-based system for managing ones account to an Adobe Flash based system which suddenly left me stranded from my account. After finding a computer that ran Adobe's Flash plug-ins, it turns out you can't log-in with the Opera web browser for some confusing reason (it looks like bad scripting on Citi's part). I'm very happy I don't have any more shares with Smith Barney or Citi after finally being able to sell those.

H&R Block redux
[11:55:56] Trip Despite importing previous-years returns, H&R Block as again decided to neither register that I'm repaying a first-time homeowners credit nor provide me with a visible way of indicating that I should repay it. Fortunately the IRS is actually very understanding in this regard and didn't charge me extra for fixing the discrepancy before returning my money.

New Lytro Camera
[15:08:42] Trip My new Lytro camera arrived. The included software seems pretty easy to use, but rather pointless and not very featureful, but as it sits, since they don't support something standard or documented
( http://blog.lytro.com/news/the-light-field-revolution-by-ren-ng/#comment-47922 ), it's necessary.

The best file documentation I've found so far is:
http://eclecti.cc/computervision/reverse-engineering-the-lytro-lfp-file-format

and the native application stores things in $HOME/pictures/Lytro.lytrolib/images/