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  • “That’s a Promise!”

    In a recent interview, KDE developer Zack Rusin made some bold and (from my point of view) much-welcomed promises about the future of the Linux Desktop as a result of the Plasma and (by implication) Appeal subprojects of KDE:

    Plasma will blow you away. Nothing you’ve ever seen or will see in the coming years will come even close to what you’ll experience with Plasma. And that’s a promise.

    Personally, I’m way excited about this. You know how you can use “Extensions” to add to or modify the functionality of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser? Well, one component of the Plasma project is to allow that sort of functionality, for your desktop. Apparently this function is already available in Mac OS X’s latest incarnation.

  • Photography and Computational Linguistics

    ***The albums aren’t working right now 🙁 ***

    Now you get to see a random image from my photo albums on the side of my blog page. I think its pretty cool! All of the pictures on there right now are from the trip that Paul, Mark, and I took to Britten’s house in San Diego during memorial day weekend.

    Other news: I took my Spanish 321 final yesterday, heralding the end of Spring term and the beginning of a lazy summer. Yahoo!

    Also, I have lately been working on a computer program called NetLing that is designed to do some analysis of word usage patterns in online mailing lists over time. Hopefully I can get some neat results out of it and perhaps get published someday(???)

    Last thing: I’m trying to get blogs and photo galleries set up for everybody (my family, my roommates and friends here at school, etc.) Hopefully I’ll have things worked out soon. I’ll let you all know!

  • It Begins

    Thus begins the new blog of Josh Hansen. Behold its awesomeness!