Me and Sylvia at the Memorial (April 2009)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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In comments at the Apostropher's blog, Gaijin Biker mentions how cool Idée Inc.'s new image-searching technology is. And it is indeed very cool: try out a couple of the applications they are demoing on their labs page.

Multicolr Search lets you scan their database of images (10 million pictures selected from Flickr) for pictures with particular combinations of colors. I don't see any application for this in my own life (then again I'm not a designer) but it does seem very cool and fun to play with.
BYO Image lets you specify an image file and have Idée search its database for images that are similar. This seems just great, and maybe more complicated than the Multicolr application.

posted afternoon of Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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