Wed, 4 May 2005 00:00:00 UT

Subcontinuations, Music Suckers, Crypto-Apt

Oleg gave permission for Autrijus to include his monad transformer version of SPJsubcontinuation code into Pugs, yay! More pugs info in autrijus' journal entry.

Linkin Park Disses Record Label: Warner says the band has made unrealistic demands, including asking for a 60 (m) million dollar advance and a 50-50 profit split.
Go Magnatune !

This post was just on the magnatune-discuss list, because with the Magnatune Label, artists get fifty percent of the purchase price.
This implies to me that joining the Media Mafia like Sony, Warner, etc. requires large amounts of stupidity on the part of the band.

The new apt has the ability to automatically cryptographically verify the origin of packages. Finally!

The Open Graphics Project has an update online today. In essence, their corporate backing is gone, but they have a two-step plan. First, a more expensive-per-unit FPGA board, then they'll need a million dollars of backing to build a cheaper-per-unit ASIC model.
If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know I've wanted to get my hands on an FPGA board for a long time. I would very much like a Domain Specific Language written Haskell that compiles to FPGA.

Today is the first day of a new experiment, I'm going to retrain myself into the habit of working on a personal project at least one hour a day.
I told Einar Karttunen that I can have a 0.1 version of Fermat's Last Margin released by this weekend, so I shall exploit my blog for Embarassment Oriented Programming (If I don't have FLM 0.1 out by this weekend I'll be horribly embarassed).