Via PHPEverywhere, devArticles: Building Cross Platform GUI Apps With PHP-GTK by Mitchell Harper. "In this article we're going to take a look at PHP-GTK: what it is, how to download and install it, as well as how to use it to build cross-platform interactive GUI applications. To test the PHP-GTK samples in this article, you should have PHP 4.1.1 or later and MySQL installed on a Windows, Linux or Unix machine."

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Slashdot: US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms. The Army has given a $50 million grant to MIT to help develop suits for the military that can do all kinds of cool things, including making the wearer partially invisible by using "light-deflecting material". They'll use nanotechnology... sounds awesome if it works. MIT rocks. Here's an article from USA Today, and here's an article from CNET.

Wow, the CNET article has a lot more information: "MIT won the $50 million contract to create an Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, or ISN. The ISN will be staffed by around 150 people, including 35 MIT professors, specialists from the Army, DuPont and Raytheon, as well as doctors from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, according to MIT."

The unique lightweight materials that can be composed using nanotechnology will possess revolutionary qualities that MIT says will help it make a molecular "exoskeleton" for soldiers. The ISN plans to research ideas for a soft--and almost invisible--clothing that can solidify into a medical cast when a soldier is injured or a "forearm karate glove" for combat, MIT said.

Researchers also hope to develop a kind of molecular chain mail that can deflect bullets.

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18:54 (utc-5)

 

Now that I think about it, that "Recent Comments" section down to the right there is really necessary if I'm going to have comments. If a comment is made to a post after it has scrolled off the main page, there'd be no obvious way to know about it if I didn't have a list of recent comments linking to the post.

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02:40 (utc-5)

 

Hey, cool. I just noticed Hosting Matters upgraded my server to PHP 4.1.2. No security holes here! They rock. I can now use the stupid $_REQUEST variables they want us to start using.

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02:04 (utc-5)

 

Slashdot: Next Windows to Have New Filesystem. This is all about MS using SQL server as the underlying technology for Windows' filesystem, Exchange Server, and a few other things they wanted to use it for. I'd love to see what they do with it. Here's the article at CNET, which I haven't read yet.

Here's a post about this from December.

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01:18 (utc-5)

 

Adam: "Unlike some people, I'm not under the delusion that I'm doing anything resembling journalism just because I'm writing a weblog." - right on!

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