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plastic soul keepers

spooky... i hear voices of dead people...

every day and every night...

do you believe in angels? do you believe in immoratality of your soul?

tens of slim, plastic soul keepers are littered on my desk. it's 21th centure. we keep souls in dvd and flash cards... voodoo stuff...

Photography: don't call my monkey artist, dude

so much artist nowadays, so much smuggy creaters. give them enough rope, dude.. give it.

Don't want to compare photography with other forms of art Cause for correct comparing I need rather strong comparative tests base. And that sucks, that boring. may be some day, when i decide to get liberal education that will be my
degree work..but..

But now i want to talk about involvement of photographer in creation (not to prove, just to talk). Can you imagine that a monkey wrote a novell? Even if you give it a pen and being watching it for 10 years.. Well, then give that monkey a brush, then musical stuff... whatever you gave the monkey it couldn't create work of art. Surprising, ha?

But.. photographers prefer to see art tool in their cameras. Hey. Hey! give a monkey a camera! Can you imagine that it make some interesting photos? And can you imagine that some of those pictures mokey took for whole 10 years would be great? Well, I can :) Cause greatness of pictures doesn't depend on greatness of monkey in this case. It relay totally on greatness of the world around us. Though pictures are great I can not call that monkey artist. Cause she didn't do much here. Just continued pushing the button for 10 years (well, it reminds me some coders).

Well, I can't really say that photography is not an art.
Here is the bottom line. Every work if it done in some genius way is totally an art. Great mathematician like Lobachevskiy were true artist. Great physicist like Einstein were true artist either.. But most of physics, most of mathematician are not artist, even if they are rather cool scientists.

And here I suppose to decide are common painters, common designers, common musicians real artists? I'd rather say yes. Cause when you see some painting, that doesn't sucks (not every monkey that has taken a brush is genius), you see something that somebody created on a blanked area. Images has grown from his head, and his hand created a reflection... and when you see photo, you see only reflection(or some view if photographer was the skilled one) of something and to make this reflection was rather simple. Push the button...

PS I know, i know. there are a lot of ways to push that button, but 1 of 100 shots from 1 of 100 positions can be great whoever did this shots..

PSS Richard Avedon kicks ass!

Silverlighted knife in Microsofts' pocket... against Google?

In Discussion with my old friend Timur Ibatullin (not a blogger) about Joels Spolsky article "Strategy Letter VI" he suggested suddenly "Is the MS Silverlight the thing Joel talking about?"Hey! Is Silverlight "a compelling SDK that you can use to make powerful Ajax applications with common user interface elements that work together"? It's very tricky, isn't it? :) When everybody think SilverLight is appeared to replace Adobe Air, its main aim could be probably Google, for example. Just compare Joels article with "Why Silverlight" explanation.
Well, and don't forget about .net framework integration... :)

Digital Library started (why i prefer java for php)

Digital Technical Library (unfortunately, cann't show internet location for some reasons)
Well, I can say that this is my first big project on java. In fact, this is second version. The first was for intranet users. Both of them written in java with open-source search engine.

When i've started i had very poor understanding of what java is. Well, there is no much java developers in our city .

First attempt for develope this digital library was made in November, 2006. And that was PHP with Zend Framework. By that time the framework wasn't realised, but i needed only Zend_Search_Lucene searching engine. And thought that this would be nice. Well, i was wrong :)
Don't know about current version of Zend_Lucene, but previos one was rather slow. The test library version had about 63 000 pages (about 650 MB of information). And search time was about 4 seconds on my notebook and in fact i requested only one query in the same time. Well, java version runs on server, but there are more than 100 times more information. And it took about 3 seconds to process 20 search requests.
Rather cool, ya? :) By the way java-version showed more than 10 times speed increase in proceding on the same test database.
Hey, it's true that simple pages php-version generated faster. But searching was the main aim of the project. And it was very huge bottle-neck of php-vesion.
Well, don't want to rise my sword in the war against PHP... for the time present :)