Friday, July 18, 2008

Testing Kblogger in KDE4

Well, KDE4 is a reality for a long time now actually. And I΄ve decided to test the KBlogger application.



KBlogger lets you write your blog article in a nice rich client application right on your desktop. When you are happy with it you publish it upstream.

Looks cool, works cool, lets see how cool it sends the article out there ;-)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Quanta, shadows and Newton's apple

I was driving at work this morning, and I was stacked in traffic (as usual). I was waiting for a traffic light to go green and I was looking at a side of the bridge that was a few meters above my head.

The side has small pillars, I couldn't see the traffic on it, but the sun was sending traffic's shadow to fall on the pillars. And then it happened... :-)

I must have seen the same (more or less) thing a million times before. But it was so clear now! Crystal clear.

The shadow of a track was moving along the pillars, I wasn't looking at it, just had it in peripheral vision. But it felt wrong, something felt wrong. Instantly, my eyes started following that shadow. It was so weird. The motion...well it was not a motion...it was little jumps, little hops, from one pillar to another.

"Like quanta" I thought. "Quanta? Holy crap" my next thought. Just because we perceive some motions in the microcosm as not as in the classical world, that does not mean they happen like that. We just see the pillars cause we simply can't see the traffic!

It is not an original idea, I am sure I read it somewhere...probably in a superstring theory context, that what we see (in our 3-D world is actually shadows of a N-D world), yet I've never read an example, I've never related it with a physical observation.

And it felt good! :-) You know the story with Newton, that he was (allegedly) hit by an falling apple and then he thought about gravity...well, that was my apple.

Delicious!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Paladin ftw :-)

Warcraft is an addiction. Yes it is. My first character is a paladin. Paladin levels slowly, but can do some pretty amazing things...like fighting a gazillion enemies at the same time.

Look at the screen shot if you don't believe me.

Now, I may be tired of my paladin. I play him the least, if at all. Still this screenshot feels so good :-)