KR tutorial...

I found this interesting and simple intro to KR and I must say it is good. I don't quite agree that description logics is the way of the future though.

I also fully agree that Google most likely is doing A.I. research. If they are not, I think they are totally misjudging how useful it is and how close we are to useful A.I. applications.

This book that was linked also looks very promising, I have to add it to my Amazon wish list for sure.

Nokia E70 video playback resolution

I have been trying to find information on what Nokia 5300 and Nokia E70 is capable of playing back in terms of resolution. I would love a E70 if it can playback full-res video, and my girlfriend wants a 5300. This thread seems to imply the 5300 is unable to play back full-res video, and I suspect the E70 has the same problem, given its huge resolution.

SleekXMPP

Another nice XMPP library that aims to make implementing or testing XEPs easy, something I really long to do.

Some day I am going to start using XMPP "for real": I have been on jabber for a couple of months but I have also noticed that I never really IM anyone anymore now that I work all day long. I am an antisocial creature I guess. Also I only have bots and automated services on jabber, while every human in my roster is on MSN or ICQ.

Canon TX-1

I would much like a Canon TX1 when I go to Venezuela in December. Or why not for the summer vacation in Paris/Öland as well.

I see many people complaining about the MJPEG of Canon. I like it though: its perfect for editing, no temporal component that makes re-encoding necessary when you cut the movie. Also the quality is very high. 8GB SDHC cards are not expensive enough to make them unachievable in any way. A problem is where to store all the raw footage when you empty the cards though... this will be a serious filler of HDDs.

Linkbacks and blogger/blogspot

Why, oh why, doesn't Google support pingback? As far as I have understood, blogger does not support any of the linkback protocols at all.

Thankfully there is, as is common, a hack around this. The problem is that the hack this time around is very ugly: Trackback with some help from Greasemonkey:

• Manually add links


• Trackback as opposed to pingback

I need to do... more m$ stuff.

Wow, I found this blog really interesting: Vista Smalltalk. It is, you might have guessed it, Smalltalk for Vista, sort of. It's using .NET and Microsoft's "AJAX" WPF/E to do some very cool stuff in the browser. I happen not to like Smalltalk much though, i did a presentation on it when I was at university and I was not impressed. It lacked anything special enough for it to considered useful by me anyway.

The future will be very interesting when it comes to portable applications. Seems Microsoft really has got something going here, and sadly the XUL approach of Mozilla will not be able to compete here, even though it is not really aimed at the same thing. I really need to learn some .NET stuff for real soon, or I fear I will be obsolete in a short time.