Brooders

I found two new applications today, Junebug (a wiki) and Nginx (a webserver).

So Junebug was discoverd through Redhanded but while I was trauling throught the installation section I stumbled up Nginx.

Having partially written a wiki (in Perl) myself, I am still amazed when I see a new/another wiki crop up. Junebug is based on the Camping Framework, another Ruby web framework.

I have been looking at Xavante (Lua Language) webserver just for technologies sake. There always seems to be more fringe applications and frameworks than one would imagine. I guess the thread I see from newer frameworks is a focus on simplicity, light footprint (memory, code base). Nginx is claiming a much smaller memory footprint that Apache, Lighttpd, et al when acting in a reverse proxy mode. Before today, I would not have known it existed.

Back to Junebug though, one great feature it has .. download and run. Embedded webserver, you don’t need the Apache or Nginx instructions. This is important to quickly get the feel for an application. The download and run is a great feature I also liked that Instiki has. Junebug looks like a great little wiki, but I always think I need a cross between a Wiki and a bookmarking service (like del.icio.us) .

They have a simple focus:

Junebug is a simple, clean, minimalist wiki intended for personal use.

All the regular features of Access Control, Page Versioning and DB backing (through SQLite).

I think it’s worth a bit more a a serious look.

Body Area Network has rated #6 in the 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007 over at Popular Mechanics.

I first saw this Human Area Network term in January this year (2006), but even these articles were written in 2005 and 2004.

As with any technological prediction, there are caveats:

“but there’s no guarantee that BAN products will ever materialize.”

Says Popular Mechanics.

Interesting concept, instead of broadcasting through the airwaves, use the skin/body as a physical network medium. It’s a weird bioligical way of communicating, a shake of hands, kiss on the cheek. Very James Bond. If anyone ever played Shadowrun or any other Cyberpunk RPG, there was always the “smartgun link” technolgoy. Your body and wired reflexes were networked through your hand to the Gun, most times through implants .. but this idea is essentially the same.

More practically (for me anyway) it would be cool if I could synchronise a memory stick with my computer just by typing on the keyboard or using the mouse.

So, will this “BAN” materialise? Or just exist as a cool idea?

Found this great comic (this was scanned) called “The Long Tomorrow”, a 1970-something noir comic.

Update: As at 9th December 2007 – some domain squatter grabbed the URL, now a porn site.

Here’s a sample:

You can used to be able to find the whole scanned version of The Long Tomorrow @ Ultrawet (was http://ultrawet.net/10cent/scan/moebius/ltm/moebius-ltm1.htm).

Apparently Ridley Scott and William Gibson drew inspiration from this Comic.

Via: Giavasan – The Long Tomorrow