Saturday, June 25, 2011

Let's see if it can support multiple embeds and/or TED embeds on the same page

What strikes me about this is that it seems to bring a different kind of 3-D to the table than the stereoscopic or simple rendered kind.  The drawback, of course, is that you only have one person who can experience this at a time, but if you have somebody sitting in front of a computer screen(which tends to be one person watching the monitor, or playing a one-player video game), then it's not an issue.

What I'd be interested to see here is whether this video posts properly from blogger



Here's the thing I notice here: look how much time is spent distracting you from actually directly interacting with him.  You might have some nice little AI tricks regarding him noticing or taking interests with things you do, but you only get real interaction after having been narratively tunnelled into a certain conversation that has certain social expectations attached to it

But I do have to say it's a neat trick.  But is it going to seem all that neat as others develop this kind of interaction more extensively?

I have to wonder, is this just a problem when dealing with embeds?

Or does the blogwriter program just screw things up when it deals with embedded video?

Friday, June 17, 2011

Test for Telepresent Texan

Just trying to see how this works on my blog,  You know how it goes.  The same old story with all the fun and glory.  This could make it easier for me to just sit down and write more of these entries.  There’s a lot that’s interesting in the world.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

An interesting article on the Anonymous Hack of HBGary

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

What strikes me about this story is that despite the prestige in the media about it, the means by which it were done were not especially exotic, and the vulnerabilities it exploited were not especially unknown. In fact, they were pretty basic!

If there's a comment to be made from my end of subject, it's a cognitive one. The thing about passwords is that the truly unpredictable ones, the ones that are all surprise information, which can't be guessed from the other side from other info, are also the most difficult to remember. Meaningful information is both memorable and recoverable by others by logic and detective work for the same reasons.