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Johnny Chung Lee’s name has been turning up a lot in the world of tech lately for his experiments with Wii-motes. He’s turned them into Minority Report-like computers and used them to turn normal screens into touch-sensitive ones. After seeing his latest video on Engadget, I clicked through to his website and found some of his older (2004-05) experiments. Amazing! He’s the same guy who worked on the adaptive projector, which I’ve seen before.

Check it out:

I’m telling you, some time in the near future we’ll all be buying stuff like this from his developed with Apple or MS or something…

After I updated my MacBook to Leopard, I realized that my Logitech s530 Laser Keyboard and Mouse weren’t working. They had been fine before. After rebooting and changing the batteries, I checked Logitech.com. Scrolling down, it listed the system requirements as “Mac OSX 10.3.9 - 10.41″. Duh, I thought, the OS just came out so Logitech hasn’t updated their drivers yet. I checked the Logitech website every other day to see when they released a compatible one. Today, their website showed a new version. I downloaded and installed it, but the keyboard still didn’t work!

The USB dongle is plugged in. It’s light is on, so it’s getting power and I know the USB port is good. The keyboard and mouse both have freshvbatteries and I tried pressing their connect buttons just as the instructions said to. But it still didn’t work.

I went to http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/433/158&cl=us,en again and realized the driver had only been updated to include Mac OSX 10.5. Since Leopard came out, Apple has released system update 10.5.1. So good job, Logitech, you released an update that didn’t do anything. Thanks.

Pictures:
the USB dongle is on
but it still doesn’t work

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I’ve been experimenting with Googls Adsense Youtube ads (which are simply embedded Youtube videos, just like those on any webpage, but with various ads appearing next to them as they play) on an experimental, theme-switching version of this site at http://pakman20.com/test.php. I think they’re a great idea, they should certainly drive more revenue.

However, there’s something called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It sets the standards of web languages such as HTML and CSS (both of which the page you are reading now uses). The W3C tells what a web developer can and can’t do with the computer language. It’s important for there to be a standard like this so that visitors to a web site using different browsers all see the same thing. This way, a webmaster can create one webpage which looks the same no matter who looks at it.

The language that the test.php page I’m talking about is written in XHTML and PHP (PHP is not exactly a W3C standard, but that’s because it’s a server-side language, not client-side and is therefore never seen by the browser. but regardless,). I work hard to make sure everything I write on that section of the site is perfectly, 100% valid by the W3C’s standards. I take pride in the fact that my (at least that part of) website displays exactly the same in any given W3C-conforming browser.
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lol. Get it, Notre?

via: http://xkcd.com/327/

I don’t usually use Windows, but at school last Friday this thing popped up when I logged in. I took a quick screen shot and saved it to my flash drive. LOL. Nobody else around me got it, so I guess I have to explain this.

OpenOffice.org is a gnu (open-source) alternative to Microsoft Office. It was developed specifically to be free, and always will be. It runs on the Java platform, so obviously Sun (the company that develops Java) has decided to use it as promotional material. Just goes to show you how notoriously annoying Java can be. Its not that JRE (Java Runtime Enviroment) is bad, but I hate that every time it updates itself it installs a new version on a different place in my system without uninstalling the old one. You can even see this in action in the screenshot: there are two icons for 2 different running versions of JRE.