Quantum Thoughts

I see that the new iMac is available in Plaisio. So just 5 or 6 clicks away. I will thing it over the weekend and order it at Monday

A very interesting implementation (unfortunately in flash ) that uses gecoding for the postal code address lookup and street view API for home front reading. Lets you decorate with Christmas ornaments your house exterior, a very common habit in the United States and Northern Europe. This is my attempt, not so successful I have [...]

Some ie6 bug prevent from properly clearing the options of a select html element. This is an issue the actual length that myselect.options.length statement returns. The smart way to do this is with a while loop.
            function removeSelects(elementId){                var myselect = document.getElementById(elementId);                for(var i=0; i<myselect.options.length; i++){                    myselect.options[i] = null;                }                while (myselect.options.length > 0) {                    [...]

Multitasking was warhiped in the

Multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy. Everything distracts them.

The irony is that even this partivcualr blog post is a product of multitasking in the irrelevancy playground. [via]

I discovered a service in Capirtal.gr, one of the most emerging Greek information portals, that provides real time stock prices in smart mobile html area. The page is plain html/js so viewable by most browsers. The only pitfall is that to refresh your results you need to do it manually clicking on the refresh button.  [...]

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Apparently it cannot get any clearer than that. I am a total geek since I consider this picture work of art, while my girlfriend thinks it’s just gross.

Cool timepicker jquery pluggin. Delivered also under jquery UI. Just what I needed for my online traveling app.
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Seriously now, I keep wondering why they did not think of it earlier. Context aware mobiles based on their GPS (or cell id ) + magnetometer data. Cool Stuff.  [via]

Putting together a similar proposal for self reproducible swarm robots for this ICT Eu Call. Von Newman in still so contemporary. [via]