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This web site was entirely built by a robot: Web Site Robot. In fact you can change it by scrolling to the bottom of the page and choosing another look. I hope that makes you feel excited about the web...
The folks who created the Robot are currently working on its next generation, based on the concept of Thinking Machines. As the name implies, it will go beyond building your web site. It will respond to your email, phone calls, do your shopping, send invitations for your birthday bash, think and act the same way you would.
To have a glimpse at things to come, please download Web Site Robot and let it buid your won web site while you watch. Also, don't forget to come back, read my blog and leave your comments. Enjoy!
Below are some of the sites that I visit on a daily basis...
Slashdot
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.  From Wikipedia:  The summaries for the stories are generally submitted by Slashdot's own readers with editors accepting or rejecting these contributions for general posting.
GotAPI
Documentation at your fingertip.  A one stop reference for most of the APIs I use for developing applications.  Thanks to this sites like these, I once got rid of a number of programming bookcases.  Now I feel more like a high school kid, with just a few books here and there.  Nothing frightening.

Mindi Abair
I had the chance to chat with Mindi at the SLC International Jazz Festival after a an incendiary show that has come to be her trademark.  It doesn't matter whether you are a smooth jazz fan and enjoys or not,  just check this music, and you will be gravitating somewhere between David Sanborn and Sade Adu,  Imagine that! It's like chocolate for the brain....

Santana and Mana
You probably know about Mana through their collaboration with Santana.  It's a great group and you should check their Labios Compartidos video.  It's sad in a way, but when you focus on the artistic aspect of it, it's real genius....
Mana
If you really haven't heard of Mana, here is a treat for you...
Mdb6
Ever since I ran into fractal, I have become very fascinated with them. They are indeed beautiful. There is more. Something like a mysterious element in that their governing equations is deceptively simple, yet they lead to some naturally magical patterns. If fractals are so close to natural forms and we have not yet found a way to use them for say file compression, it means we know really so little about our own world. In fact, think of it this way: you can use short wave radio to broadcast analog voice to an audience thousands of miles away. Try to push the same voice message in the same medium after digitizing it: the shear volume of data will just chok it.
Nova1 		wsr blog
Web Site Rob... 		This is WebSiteRobot Version 1.2.3. It creates and hosts web sites on any computer connected to the Internet. Instead of wasting time with HTML, FTP, Web hosting companies that would rent you a tiny space, you can use your own computer to host multimedia. If you stop and think a little, you would realize that this technology is overdue, yet we are still trying to do things the old way, missing out truly great possibilities. You may contact me with your street address ad I will gladly send you a CD, or you can downloadt it from download.com
WebSiteRobot... 		This screen shows the Control Center of WebSIteRobot. As you can see, it is a simple no non-sense GUI. On the left is the Synchronizer that checks the files in your MyWebSite folder and updates you web site on the Internet. The text area gives an inventory of the files found and the below it is a progress bar. On the right is the Web Server with a start and stop button. The text area displays the activities of visitors in your web site in real time. One important design concept on this interface is to give you control of the Robot, but only in a meaningful way. That is, if the Server is on, you can only stop it. If you tell the Robot to Start the web server while it is already running, it might think you are crazy or you are not paying attention. Most interfaces just give you options and options that you click and go like, oh what was that. For example, most word processords would gladly let you print an empty document! If you ask the Robot to verify your web site while it is in the process of synchronizing, it will not hang like you know whose interfaces, it will nicely tell you what its busy doing at this time, and hope that you come back later! It is so natural, it's almost boring. You start this guy expecting to go trough hell to build a web site, but then oops, it does it all for you, thumbnails, music samples, links, IP tracking, you name it, no question asked.
WebSiteRobot... 		This is basically the screen that I am using to type these notes. Once again it is a very clean and simpe, interface. THat apparent simplicity hides a host of cool features. On the left is the directory tree of the MyWebSite folder. The multimedia file selected on the left brings up the notes for that item on the right, ready for edition. The nice thing about this whole interface is that you cannot make a mistake unless of course you really want to. For example, before you go to the next item, you have to either save the current changes you made to the notes, or discard the changes and revert to the previous selection.
WebSiteRobot...
This is the server that hosts this page. It has a 1.7MHz AMD CPU with 512MB RAM. The OS is indeed Linux, Red Hat 9 (the last Red Hat Linux, as they will now offer only the Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Fedora Project). It is on battery backup and I have only stopped it once in about 6 months of operation.
The Server 		This is the DSL Modem that connects this page to the Internet. While I was researching the WebSiteRobot concept, the web was full of rumors about what would work or not work. The fact is, manufacturers cannot imagine all the use cases. Why would anyone want to run a web server at home? It's too compliated, the average user will not have the skills to do it riht, better yet, let's just make it unlawful and enforce a user agreement saying that they cannot do this or that. Come on, why not? To an extend, freedom is meaningless unless you know all the possibilities. If you don't have your car keys, you are actually not free to drive it. Likewise, if you cannot configure your DSL correctly, you are limited to browse the web meanwhile you could be publishing on it too.
The DSL Modem
Tech News Tech News
News, mostly Linux, Science, World, Finances
Download Download
Open source packages obtained from different sites. Just here to make things easy for me, but if you see something that you need, feel free to get it.
Milltech Milltech
Milltech Engineering is a company that I co-founded back in 1998 to commercialize Millsoft® and promote Advanced Computational Techniques such as CFD, and DEM as a vialble approach to solving problems in the Mineral Processing.
Repairs, Installations Repairs, Installations
In general, repairing things is very expensive when the initial warranty is expired. To the point where you just feel like throwing away and buying new ones. It's a big waste. It's more fun to fix stuff if thare is a little spare time and the parts are available. Here are a few projects
Technology Garden Technology Garden
Some of the ideas found here have been developed to the level of a prototype. Some are just possibilities that I am contemplating. WebSiteRobot used to be in this section, and it eventually evolved into the software that you can now download and use.
Computer Programming Computer Programming
Here are a few samples of my recent computer programming work. I will be adding more samples as time permits. Books shown are those that I bought recently. Notice that by the time I bought these books, I was already experienced in Pascal, Fortran and the HP-UX flavor of Unix. You don't always know at the time you are buying books, but I will tell you which ones I like.
Fractals, Part I Fractals, Part I
I created these fractals for fun because fractals are so beautiful. They have not found a field of application that is as great as their beauty, but I believe that could change. For instance, I keep thinking about applying Fractals Theory to image and sound processing. One could achieve a very high compression factor and be able to use something like short wave radio signals for wireless networks... Mike suggested a great idea: decomposing small areas of an image into series of fractals, that way one can zoom into the image indefinitely without loosing quality. That would be a great way of devising digital zooms and other photo enlargement softwares!
Financial Calculators Financial Calculators
This is a collection of financial calculators. I began writing my own javascript calculators, then I found a nice collection of javascript and cgi by H. Chou that I adapted a little and add it here. You may use these as your first stop before you meet a loan officer or mortgage broker.
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous
 
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