Lotsa Sleepsa.

Whoo did I sleep. I set my alarm to wake me after 12 hours, but that apparantly wasn't enough. Then I decided to get up when my SO woke me while getting dressed to go see a client, but I fell asleep again. So, something like 15 hours after I went to bed I finally dragged myself out of it. I now feel signifigantly more human. Time will tell whether or not that is a good thing.

I got an e-mail from my Mom today, who has been reading my journal. <waves> Hi Mom!  Anyway she complains that all I seem to write about is sleeping and drinking coffee and tea. Well, its seems to ME that thats all I've been doing lately :-/

So in an attempt to NOT bore the rest of the world into the somnolescent state I just emerged from, I'll say "bye for now", and I'll go get myself some more coffee...

Nice Video Gadget.

A small player is trying to introduce the video equivalent of an ipod. This little device can store 320 hours equivalent of compressed mpeg-4 videos. It does this by re-sampling and re-encoding DVD signals from a dvd player, so it takes as long to upload a movie as it would to watch it. On the other hand, it currently IGNORES all DRM signals and will happily let you upload a DVD even if that DVD has the 'no copies' bit set.

So, I wanna see a few reviews by tech-savvy people first so I can know things like "can you upgrade the storage?", "Is the battery easily replaceable?", and "What is the UI like?"  but in the meantime, I think it sounds like a nifty little product.

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Well, I found a review here, and it makes me think even more that I would love to own this gizmo. The big problem is a base price around US$1000, and I would definitely want some of the add-ons. Oh well, just need to get rich first.

Plant signalling and Computation.

Here's a recent blurb on inter-plant signalling, and there's an overview of a paper published in Nature that talks about distributed computation tasks plants perform.