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An “open” web is one which has sound protocols which most people could sit down and eventually understand how it works and how it creates value without restricting usage down to the bourgeoisie. It is an idea that transcends geography and locality and does its part to protect individuals while catering to the needs of industry. An open web does not favor one culture, one language or one idea. An open web is the gateway to a true democracy. An open web is one where it is safe to discuss drugs and their effects.

Follow up to the last post.
1.) Sometimes the answer to wanting to do something meaningful means trading your phone for a blackberry and taking up some contract work. At least now I’ll be paid for any embedded development I might do, and my time was proven well spent actually playing the guitar for 20 some hours a week instead of programming some stupid functionality that has been done One Hundred Times Before.
2.) I’ve been brewing my own Kombucha for a while now, in two varieties: green tea, and jasmine green tea. $30+/mo Kombucha usage is now a self-sustaining 1.5 cups sugar and a handful of tea bags per gallon of Kombucha.
3.) Beer brewing will be considerably more difficult than Kombucha and probably more expensive to get up and going, however there is merit in pursuing such a hobby. I’ll be looking to grow some hops this season in addition to several other gardening endeavors to be cressened with the configuring of grow lights in the coming weeks–Organic Strawberries I can hardly wait!

1.) Write one new application for my phone (possibly a guitar chord lookup app–one supposedly exists for $1.99)
It has been a long time since I’ve looked at mobile device development. With all the sensors a phone has, it will prove interesting to research and I could create something really cool. I have a Nokia E71 which I think supports J2ME with an API for using the GPS.
2.) Make my own Kombucha
I love drinking Kombucha. Its effects are calming, and it noticeably helps with digestion.
3.) Brew my own beer
BEER!

UPDATE: As it turns out, my phone runs the Symbian OS which natively supports a version of c++ for development. However I think extensions exist for most modern programming languages.

The past day or so I have been working on some of the Facebook puzzles and in doing so I used Python built in profiler. It is incredibly easy to set up, simply import cprofile and then call your entry point with: cProfile.run(‘Main()’) replacing Main with the name of your entry point. You get results, for instance I was able to show that calling a C function to compete the Levenshtein Distance to reduce the time for computation in half.

http://www.kendyck.com/math/sicp/ex1-13.xml

So I’ve been doing some updates to the project I started as my honors project in college which is a open source course room management system. I moved it all to code.google and have packaged a virtual machine image for deployment on hosts. I have also begun to write wiki documents outlining aspects of installing, maintaining and using the software. I hope it might be useful to someone.

Today I added in a fense to keep the rabbits from destroying further the bean plants, beats, and other recently germinated green leaf vegetables.