"It was the best shave in the world"

I just had my first shave with my new Mach3Turbo blades, and it was amazing! It somehow feels sharper... you gotta get this!

JPEG2000 (supposedly) Coming Soon

I don't know why this was posted on Slashdot, since there doesn't seem to be any new news I can find that would have spurred on the post. But it's interesting anyway. The main thing I'm wondering is how JPEG2000 compares to LuraWave. This guy is right, the most interesting thing about it is its use of wavelet compression, which is what JPEG2000 shares with LuraWave.

A few people, like me, point out that there's been no new news for years. I hope this guy is right thinking that the Slashdot story was submitted by an insider. Here's LuraTech's page on JPEG2000, which states that it's been "ratified as an International Standard" (which standards body??). Finally, check out http://www.jpeg2000info.com/

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Grr, I had to remove my monospaced style for now because the slashdot URLs broke it

StructuredText / Wiki formatting is go

I've just met one of my long term goals for my weblog

I've enabled StructuredText by default on all new weblog posts! The markup can still use some additions - for instance you can't yet specify the type of ordered list but that's a small addition.

So... I suppose I'll give you a quick example of some of the stuff I can do now:

• lists
  • nested lists!
• ha!

1. ordered lists
   1. nested ordered lists
2. mwa ha!

• correctly nested
  1. different types of lists
• mwa ha ha

1. correctly nested
   • different types of lists
2. mwa ha ha (the other kind, just for completeness)

oh	yeah	baby
I can do tables
with	colspan, even

bold, italic, and underline, of course (and =monospaced=)
auto linking of urls: http://www.keithdevens.com/
almost any style I want!
and finally:

It can do blockquotes! Look at this long quote here. La la la la la la la. More quotes, fingers... getting... tired... must finish blockquote.

It also does (and will do) some cool stuff you can't see behind the scenes... it has and will have markup "directives", so I can do page breaks, titles (the title of this post is done with a title directive), "lead ins" (like showing the first paragraph of a long post, etc.) Yay.

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To do:

• Really get inline styles right. There are problems when you try to nest bold, italic, underline, monospaced, etc.
• Get preformatted block text done
• Put page and lead-in directives in
• put image support in
• put the "super escape" in. {any text} will escape any styles.
• put the different types of ordered lists in
• finally, macros (maybe). I'll be able to type (?=any text) and have the text keyed to "any text" substituted back in. And maybe (?funccall(params)) will call a function and replace itself with the function's output.

I'll make the markup code publicly available when it's "finished"

XML into struct

Aaaaaah, I just discovered PHP's xml_parse_into_struct function. Very cool, since I didn't know it existed before. However, the data structures it creates are totally flat. It makes it really hard to discover the actual structure of the XML.

I mean, PHP has easy to use nestable data structures, but no, instead of just using them in a format that would make people's lives easier they just pretty much give a dump of the XML parser's output. Rather than using one data structure to represent the entire document they give you this complex two array indexed structure.

No wonder it's so late. I went to the bathroom to get ready for bed, and when I came back to my room my clock said it was past 3:00. I was like "Wow, I didn't realize it was that late", but it wasn't! It was that pesky daylight savings time.

So that's why I can't see?

BBC News: Bread blamed for short sight. "Short-sightedness could be linked to childhood over-consumption of bread, rather than holding books too close, researchers suggest. Scientists say diets high in refined starches, such as breads and cereals increase insulin levels in children. This, they say, may then affect the development of the eyeball."