Happy New Year!

Happy new year to all of you reading this blog!

I wish you all the best and happy blog-reading/blogging in 2006.

Everybody wants widgets

Apple had them through Dashboard.
Linux had them with Karamba & SuperKaramba.
OS X and Windows had them with Samurize, DesktopX or Konfabulator (from now on Yahoo Widgets),
Microsoft has them with Gadgets (don't worry, it's the same stuff)
Firefox has them with Firefoxit.

Google wants it too... so here is Google Homepage API. (see some examples)

Incredible what desktop & web customization can do.

"Not enough mana!"

1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = 0? Apparently not! (there is this joke: Q: when 2 + 2 = 5? A: for large values of 2)

And speaking of errors in real life...Fake or Photo?

Computers are getting a hard time removing the error in a simple computation, but have a hard time trying to represent imperfect things from real life...

Update:
Seems to me, no one has this wright (and probably never will because of that floating point binary representation)

• Google's Calculator: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.77555756 × 10^-17
• Ruby: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.77555756156289e-17
• PHP(4.4): 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.7755575615629e-17
• JavaScript:1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.7755575615628914e-17
• VbScript: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2,77555756156289E-17
• Java2: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.7755575615628914E-17
• Perl 5: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.77555756156289e-017
• C#: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.7755575615628914E-17
• VC++: 1 - 0.9 - 0.1 = -2.7755575615628914e-017

Instead, 1 - 0.1 - 0.9 = 0, at least in VC++, C# and Google's Calculator...