User:Woozle

Stuff

• What Woozle Is Doing Right Now <-- answer to popular question
• To Do List
• me @ SquadWiki
• The Anna Page for family consumption (Category:Anna Nikola has all the pictures)
• Category:Woozle has images and links to other Woozle-related stuff

Birthday eCards 2005

• from Aunt Jeannie in California
• from Sinaasappeltje in the Netherlands

Essays

• The Hyperfamily Idea
• Childrearing

Projects

• Operational
  • Issuepedia: an Encyclopedia of Issues
  • SquadWiki: online community with Niftyness!™
  • vbz.net: online store (wiki site)
• Under Development
  • Web sites
    • Web Voting Booth: the official voting in 2007 may well be rigged again; I want an alternative.
    • GnuMusiq Audioscrobbler meets MediaWiki meets Amazon meets Ebay meets Godzilla
  • Software in development
    • HyperAdmin administration/security system for web-based software
    • HyperMoney accounting database program: (4/15) usable for balancing checkbooks, but no Nifty features working
    • HyperMail email management database program: (4/15) working out kinks in Thunderbird import code
    • HyperFile file and media management database program: (4/15) in design phase; tables and some code written
    • HyperPlayer media database/jukebox which allows browsing & playing audio (and eventually video) by artist and album, eventually also by songwriting, performance, production, and other credits.
    • DriveFerret data recovery software for drives with clobbered boot/FAT/directory areas
  • Back Burner
    • Open Security System: using information technology and open source software to provide higher-quality home security for less
    • Document Image Annotation
    • Ultimate Audio Editor
    • I/O Markup Language
  • Wild Ideas & Brainstorming
    • HyperChat
    • Guido
  • Other
    • CyberLife: where I hope I'll be living in a few decades
• Trivia
  • Epigram word silliness program

Technical Gripes

• Why don't OCR programs ever let you open an existing image for OCRing? (This includes the XSane front-end and every Windows OCR program I've ever used, which is one program, but it was also buggy. What's XSane's excuse?)
• An email program which pops up a dialog box whenever it has trouble connecting, and thereafter ceases to attempt connections, is annoying. Unfortunately, my current email program does this. This is only one of many reasons I'm writing my own.
• RSS has the potential to let a user "subscribe" to a particular MediaWiki page or author, only being alerted when that page is updated or that author makes an edit -- but of the two RSS (or Atom) readers I've tried, neither one lets you filter by these attributes. You can set up a temporary filter for word-in-article-title, but it only does "name contains", not "name is" or anything more sophisticated. The MediaWiki software could get around this by offering pre-filtered feeds (e.g. there should be an RSS feed for each page's "history" tab) as well as for "my contributions" for each user.

Interesting Sites

• (2005-04-21) Interplanetary Internet Project
• (2005-03-27) Star Trek New Voyages: fan-produced, freely downloadable episodes of new stories from the 4th and 5th year of the original 5-year mission. Maintains the look-and-feel (and -sound) of the original series, but with CGI effects.
• (2004) OpenCyc: a project to put basic "common sense" into an open-source database.

Bookmarks from Other People

• (2005-07-18) Anomalies website from Anna Nikola
• (2005-05-11) BYU Article about nitpicky religious discrimination -- possible Issuepedia fodder?
• (2005-05-11) American Conservative article about Bush's "free-speech zones" - a conservative article criticizing Dubya??
• (2005-05-01) Computer Rage Article - my dad thinks I should be working in this field; I think they've figured out how to franchise it, so there really isn't space for independent operators anymore (if there ever was). Plus my time commitments make it impractical to be "on call", even if I could stand to answer the phone for a living.
• (2005-04-22) Missy Higgins - Australian singer recommended by Yaira. Songs available for continuous lo-fi listening but no downloads.

Shiny Technology

• (2005-09-28) Rekall DB front end
• (2005-09-28) DVD-copying stuff:
  • gbDVDenc: DVD to MP4 transcoder
  • Rip-o-Matic: backup DVDs to high-quality XviD format
• (2005-06-13) Klear: site was way slow when I first tried it...
• (2005-05-21) Vinyl Burner

Miskallaneeyus

• (2005-06-14) this is an interesting bit of philosophizing, and so is this.
• (2005-06-10) Hyperreality: not sure if this relates to anything, but it's... interesting.
• Another Woozle in Vancouver

Notes for Later

A story from Sinaas, about her Oma (the one who is still alive):

<sinaasappeltje> okay, so she worked in the bakery of her parents
<sinaasappeltje> in a tiny little neighbourhood in Utrecht
* TheWoozle nods...
<sinaasappeltje> But, during the hungerwinter of '44, there were no eggs, flour, sugar etc
<sinaasappeltje> so my oma had a plan to make pies anyway
<sinaasappeltje> She went, a few kilometers away ( very close to where we live now) to the slachthuis
* sinaasappeltje looks up slachthuis
<sinaasappeltje> ah!
<sinaasappeltje> 'slaughterhouse'
* sinaasappeltje goes buy more time.. :S
<TheWoozle> heh
<sinaasappeltje> okay.. So she went to the slaughterhouse, a few time a week, with her yuk and buckets
<sinaasappeltje> to get two buckets of blood
<TheWoozle> ("yuk"? as in "yucky stuff", or is that a Dutch word for something?)
<sinaasappeltje> yuk.. no, the thing on your shoulders
<sinaasappeltje> I will look for a picture
<TheWoozle> ahh. I know the thing, but can't think of the word.
<sinaasappeltje> it's definately an english word
<TheWoozle> Don't worry about it. ;-)
<TheWoozle> (I'll find the word later.)
<sinaasappeltje> http://www.art2go4.com/b_660.jpg
<sinaasappeltje> okay, so when she was home, she grabbed a spoon, and mixed the blood endlessly, so that it became stiff
<TheWoozle> Ja, that's what I was thinking of when you described it... I've never heard that word before (that I remember), but maybe I've just never known that it had a name...
<sinaasappeltje> ( because of the eggwhite in it, it became stiff)
<TheWoozle> (ahh)
<sinaasappeltje> and she putted the whipped blood in molds, and baked it in the oven
<sinaasappeltje> and so the bakery was the only bakery in the city that still sold pies, and nobody knew it was blood
<sinaasappeltje> :D cool he?

Notes: "yuk" is "yoke"