Coolness - non-linear and all

The bibliography database tool was developed for the Stanford University Libraries to display information pertaining to bibliographic citations made by modern works to medival manuscripts from the 17th century and earlier. Some screen shots of the app are shown below.\n\n[img[BibTool1.jpg]]\n[img[BibTool2.jpg]]

And one day\nin a blaze of fire\nI will return\nto the star where I was born\n\nMy brothers and my sisters\nwill be there waiting\neyes dripping hope\n"Peace and love or else"\neyes smoltering\nlike the swealtering\n\nAnd as we sweat\nwe remember the heat of our home\nthe star where we were born\nAnd the sun beats down\nreminds us of the star where we were born\n\nAnd as I stand\nwatching butterflies\nturn tornatos\nthe dove\nwith one breath in\nand one breath out\ntouches wing tips\nand I breath in\nand I breath out\n\nand we touch lips\nas we return to the star where we were born

The mist is in thick\nand the night just got started\nwe wander and ponder\nthe close of the day\n\nThe lands in the minds\nof the day dreamers wake\nThe crowds at the auctions\nits all a mistake\nWhen dusk settles in\non another dim mansion\nI think for a moment\non the cause of expansion\n\nWell I go to the parties\nsee all the new faces\nsee that my generation\nhas already been waster\nWhy didn't I think\nto bring a blanket\nI'm cold and unkempt\nand my passion has faded\n\nThere really are few\nthat don't need each other\nbut if its just you and me\nthen I must call you a brother\nThe snow is cold\nand your fire is bright\nWe can use your blanket\nto stay warm through the night

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Mathematics is the study of spaces.\nDynamics is the study of motion through spaces.\n\n"Time is a joke"\nTime is just an awknoledgement\nthat event can be synchronized\nThe observed existance of synchronisity\nis the perception of time\n"I think synchronisity is overrated"\n\nSynchronisity is not just what motivates special relativity.\nSynchronisity is like skating\n is like playing guitar\n is like loving and living and knowing and feeling\n\nno synchronisity is not overrated.\n\n(If the person quoted here recognizes their words, please know that I love your thoughts and this is not an attack on your idealogy)\n\n[[Traffic]]\n[[RefractionAndEarth]]\n\n<html><a href="Particles.jar">Particles.jar</a></html>

The EBayParser app (net.sf.jrings.ebay) makes requests from EBay based on search terms. The resulting data is a collection of nodes in an xml file that. Each item node represents one item and the child nodes are properties of that item. An example item node is shown below.\n\n<html>\n<pre>\n<item uri="http://cgi.ebay.com/IBUYPOWER-no-Alienware-LAPTOP-GAMING-256Mb-nVidia_W0QQitemZ180146107392QQihZ008QQcategoryZ46323QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem">\n <price>US $649.99 </price>\n <shipping>US $39.99</shipping>\n <spec>Alienware </spec>\n <spec>60 GB </spec>\n <spec>-- </spec>\n <spec>15 inches </spec>\n <spec>Intel Pentium M, Centrino </spec>\n <spec>Windows XP Home </spec>\n <spec>-- </spec>\n <spec>DVD+/-RW </spec>\n <spec>2 GHz </spec>\n <spec>Used </spec>\n <spec>1 GB </spec>\n</item>\n</pre>\n</html>\n\nThis program can be executed from the Rings terminal. An example is shown below:\n\n<html>\n<pre>\nWelcome to Rings 0.4 Network Client\n[----]> sendtask -1 net.sf.jrings.ebay.EBayParserTask search=alienware%20laptops\n</pre>\n</html>

I have but a question\nanswer me this\ndo the clouds catch fallen angels\nand how often do they miss\n\nI have seen lankey white dragons\nwalk through forests on fire\nbut mother doesn't believe me\nand my friends call me a liar\n\nI found in your footprints\nlike the tracks of a dog\nthe creases of aging\nas clear patches in fog\n\nMy mother will tell me\nof angels with wings\nand my friends will come running\nas the wind starts to sing\nbut these words are just hearsay\nas fire begins to sting.

The Rings terminal (available via telnet) can provide a lot of help.\n\nTo get help for a particular command, use the help command:\n\n<html>\n<pre>\nWelcome to Rings 0.4 Network Client\n[----]> help sendtask\nsendtask <host index> <JobFactory class name> [[key]=[value]]...\nUsing -1 for host index sends the task to localhost.\nAs many key=value pairs may be included as needed.\n</pre>\n</html>\n\nTo get help for any class that is part of the Rings frame work (assuming the class implements the [[Help|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/util/Help.html]] interface), use the classhelp command:\n\n<html>\n<pre>\nWelcome to Rings 0.4 Network Client\n[----]> classhelp net.sf.jrings.ebay.EBayParserTask\nThe EBayParserTask searches ebay.\nThe search criteria is specified in the search property.\nAs an example, to search for auctions on alienware laptops\nyou would execute the sendtask command with the search property\nspecified as follows:\n sendtask -1 net.sf.jrings.ebay.EBayParserTask search=alienware%20laptops\nNotice that the space has been replaced by a %20, the correct escape code.\n</pre>\n</html>

\n* DefaultTiddlers: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened\nYou'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits: <<option txtUserName>>

"So you want to see\nthe words you wrote\nreturn to the pen to the arm to the heart"\n\n-Common Rider\n\nWriting isn't ust a rush\nits a real scare\nsome times\nI have to just look away\nnot think about it\nforget I'm doing it\n\ntry not think about\nthe mess of ink\nsmearing out onto the page\n\n[img[Stranger.jpg]]\nTo all the strangers\nthat look at me weird when I take pictures\nof their beautiful faces\n\nI'll see you in heaven =)\n

This site is the home of an experiment in computer consciousness. The application being developed is a distributed processing and database platform. \n\nThe machine currently performs ray tracing across many machines. The machine can render PLY models. Please email complex PLY models to be rendered to ashesfall@gmail.com\n\nSome other projects are in progress. Find more info in the [[Projects]] section.\n\nA Rings systems administrator will install and configure Rings for your system free of charge. The first 24 hours of support (after installation) come free of charge. After 24 hours, support is $12 per hour for a systems administrator and $15 per hour for a developer.\n\nIf this idea interests you, contact ashesfall@gmail.com

You see that racoon?\nHaunched over\nsniffing the ground\nbecoming aware of the surrounding area\nlooking for the next meal\n\nconstant reaffirmation\nof the responsibility\nwe have as humans\n\nour senses being so great\nwe must discover how to use them\nas a human\nyou must be able to say\n"I know the world around me better than any other living thing"\n\nour job is not that of John Smith\nEnvisioning a new culture\npaving the once green coast\nwith roads for society\n\nour job is to know\nthrough perception\nthe world\n\nmuch better\nthan any other living thing

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Cherry soaked glass and moonlit nights\nwith a colloquial sunrise cover white monkeys\ncrying over yellow bananas\n\nAnd lovers be lost in drowning orange glow\nfor glass eyed cross and darkened rainbows\nOrgastic red future in glittery rhyme\nburns kilns with cyramic blue birds\nwhile keys jingle in time\n\nThe soul of the sunrise is luminous white\nwhile the anglo animal crys creep quickly at night\nThe teachers still talk softly\nand leaders are still rude\nbut rain answeres too promptly and tyres my mood\n\nSo white monkeys will speak with their green toungs\nbut those yellow bananas are always low hung

Now I sit\n"letting my eye lides slide from top to bottom\nas I try to make new dreams\ncuz the old ones I forget them"\nThank god for remembering,\nbut thank god for forgetting.\n\nWaiting at the train station to return to my home.\nMy beautiful home.\n\nAnd days\n the hours\n the time we spent\nI'll make it last until next time\nhold it with me\nuntil it draws me back\nlike the undertow on the waves\ncrashing on sandy beach of my mind\nEach grain\na thought\nunto itself\n\nCould it be more beautiful?\n\nAnd I have dissapeared\nthrough the smoke rings of my mind\nbut now the ruins of time\nare clear as day\nand the sun melts those frozen streets\nand that once windy beach\nis still now\n\nbecause my skin dissolves\nwith the bat of an eyelash\nthe quiver of pine needles\nthe shiver of trees

I was a programmer for the Open Coral project developed at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. I mostly developed Swing front end components for the display of lab policy and other data. Below are some screen shots. More information about this project is available at http://opencoral.org\n\n[img[CoralPolicyManager.jpg]]\n[img[CoralResourceManager.jpg]]

The Parker web application provides access to the contents of the Parker library at Corpus Christy College in Cambridge. I helped develop the search functionality for this web application along with develop systems for bibliographers and librarians to input descriptive metat data information into the database for the web app. Below are some shots of the web design.\n\n[img[parker_07/parker_search_manu_07.jpg]]\n[img[parker_07/parker_manuresults_07.jpg]]\n[img[parker_07/parker_glossary02_07.jpg]]\n

''Projects using Rings''\n[[EBayParser]]\n\n''Web Applications''\n[[Parker Web App]]\n[[Traffic Spark Blog Widget]]\n\n''Desktop Applications''\n[[Open Coral]]\n[[Bibliography Database Tool]]\n\nProject descriptions will likely be vauge. For more info on the project, please send [[me|ashesfall]] and email.\n\nDo any of these projects sound similar to something you need done? If so, I am available to work for you.\n[[Hire me on odesk!|http://www.odesk.com/console/users/Developer_d43caee4d56de953?tot=1&pos=0]]

Quote from a forum I read:\nDunno if maybe a different type of atom would "absorb" the energy then perhaps release it at a different frequency or something? I guess conservation of energy would prevent that.\n\nMy response to this:\nThe extra energy either ejects an electron or adds to the kinetic energy of the system in some other way, so don't worry too much about losing energy when discussing particle physics. Energy has lots of places to go. When I heat up my electric stove I can see it turn red, but I can still heat my food. Not all of the energy has to go the same place.\n\nAlso, refraction does not exist. The speed of light does not change. Materials contain atoms in a regular arrangement of some sort. Such an orderly distribution of charge can be represented as a grid of dipoles (pairs of positive and negative charge seperated by a certain distance). A dipole vibrates because the positive and negative charge want to get together, but quantum mechanics prevents them from being in the same location.\n\nWhen light enters a medium, it may choose (and yes, I use the word choose) to convert the energy it has into the energy stored by a vibrating dipole in the material. Because this transition takes time depending on the energy exchanged (also quantum mechanics working here to insist that any motion of energy has a minimum time associated with it) the light appears to slow down. The truth is that it isn't light any more at all. It is potential energy. \n\nImagine a wave of gravity moving through space. A planet accelerates somewhere in the universe, just like an electron does when it emits radiation. This is energy, and again propagates with a certain speed (take a guess what that speed is *wink*wink*). Lets say the wave hits our solar system and as a result our planet moves further away from the sun. Of course, we now have more potential energy as members of earth. This energy we have *is* the wave. And as you would imagine, we sink back towards the sun and the wave goes on its merry way. (Gravity doesn't actually work exactly like this for us, nor do we precieve it that way, since we are inside this big experiment).But WAIT!!!\n\nOur earth cannot possibly move at the speed of light like a photon or graviton. It has a non-zero restmass for god sake. So we "slowed down" that wave. In fact, we emitted a new wave that was out of phase with the old wave and THIS is what "slowed down" means. Light doesn't slow down, it interacts with other light that has been emitted slightly out of phase with itself.

An RTF copy of my resume is available [[here|Resume.rtf]].\n\nFor info on commerical projects that I have done for people, please take a look at the [[Projects]] section.\n\nIf you would like to hire me as a contractor on your project, please see my [[Odesk Profile|http://www.odesk.com/console/users/Developer_d43caee4d56de953?tot=1&pos=0]]

It was cold outside like winter spring time\nshe said if it can be done it wont be sung\nand if they can't turn back who knows where it can go\n\nAnd I told her about the way\nI give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert\nYou're like static on a telephone\na blizard on the mountain\nlike radio through a saxophone\nor chapped lips drinking from a fountain\n\nShe couldn't stand to be rejected\nplayed off like black stains on the dance floor\nbut my friends can't stand to be inspected\ncuz the markets are always closing\nbefore the rich can get too poor\n\nBut you know I am still\na river in the desert\nand she always drinks too long\nbecuase she is static on the telephone\na blizard on the mountain\n\nYou'll see my friends on the dance floor\nbut the markets are always closing\nbefore the rich can get too poor

And one by one\nwe will honor and forgive\nevery soldier\nfor every battle\nwhile we push our bodies\nto the limit\nof physical exhastion\n\n[<img[TyAndGlo1.jpg]][img[TyAndGlo2.jpg]]\n\n[[WeMadeOurOwnSunshine]]

non-linear and all \n[img[MakeLoveNotWar.jpg]][img[Sunset1.jpg]]

Coolness

When I hear sounds in the silence and the shivering trees\nthe words of cold blood are like mist through the leaves\nand the echoing virtues of preachers and priests\nring in my ears as I contract the disease\n \nWhen the world couldn't give us the sincerity we need\nthe tab was already rung up\nand we cut ourselves just to bleed\nI wish we could go back and start with the seed\nbut it always seems to late to rewrite the creed\n \nI feel lost in the hallways like I am out in a field\nthe white smocks of my doctors remind me that good people steal\nthe money they make and the games that they play\ntells that honest people must still learn a trade\n \nI still listen to wind through the leaves of those trees\nbut as blood becomes thin and beggars use please\nthe world works hard to catch the disease\n \nyou try to help doctors and the virtuous priests\nso when no one is watching\ntry to imagine the death of the beast\nhe wont go out with a bang\nor bright light in the dark\nbut when no one is listening\nto his sharp anxious bark

The currently preferred way of communicating with rings is by using the terminal. It normally runs on port 6767 (configurable in node.conf, of course). When telneting to port 6767 you will be presented with something that looks like this:\n\n<html>\n<pre>\nBrian:/usr/local mike$ telnet localhost 6767\nTrying ::1...\nConnected to localhost.\nEscape character is '^]'.\nWelcome to Rings 0.4 Network Client\n[----]>\n</pre>\n</html>\n\nFor your convenience, there is a [[PDF document|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/RingsCommands.pdf]] containing the commands that can be executed here. I cannot promise that this list will always be completely up to date, as commands are added (sometimes on a whim or for testing) and they may have an interesting effect. For example, users have been known to do weird things with the giterate command, which was originally for testing. Please people, be nice to the machine. Running giterate over and over is like poking it with a stick.\n\n[[Using the CGI terminal interface]]\n[[Getting Help From Inside Rings]]

Oh the temptation\nto change a painting\nto change a photo\nto change a work of art\n\noh the temptation\nto inject interpretation\noh the love\nthe living\noh the love\noh the living\n\nOh the temptation\nto love and to live\n\nOh the temptation\nto alter the past\nto try and interpret\n\nOh but we can all interpret\nand no one\nneeds\nany\nhelp\n\nto love\nand to live

Everyone is freezing. Passing the pint bottle back and forth just to try and warm up. I am probably the warmest, sporting my reed sweatshirt over a skin tight t-shirt from a local sandwich shop, while no one else even has sleeves on. You can see the reflection of the red brick train station floor on the slick surface of Lindsy's "dress". The halogen bulbs illuminate the smooth hairless skin and warm blue stunner shades on Chris, as he struggles to keep her warm. Bright rainbow light drips from the bottom of the beer can Mike J is anxiously chugging before the train arrives while Shane is busy lint rolling the clothing he bought brand new 2 hours before; shoes and all.\n\nOn the train we get stared down by everyone, young and old. "Where could they be going?", people must think. Wearing almost nothing; four men and one very beautiful girl, barely 18 years old.\n\nShane dissolves his MDMA into a half full aquafina bottle and gradually his pupils begin to grow. Now we are really getting the stare down. From the other side of the train car I hear. "Mike!"\n\n"Acid Mike!"\n\nAs I turn my head four girls are running towards me on the moving train. Begging me to recognize them; remember the time I helped them change their lives. I recognize two of the girls at first, then with the help of their story of roof top somersaults and clouds melting to star dust I recall the others and the time we spent together.\n\nAnd people keep staring. Can't take their eyes off the nine of us.\n\nThe train halts at the only stop without red brick. The civic center sign blares. The marble floor is smooth with particles of calcite and silica sending specs of light into the grooves on the cement ceiling.\n\nEight beautiful human bodies step off that train.\nAnd I follow.\n\nUp the escalator and out into the street. The wind is harsh and we get together to touch skin and keep warm. Past city hall and the court house, we can see the line enveloping Bill Grahm's baby, the civic center. I'm the only one without a ticket, which Shane quickly takes care of by negotiating with scalpers waiting blocks away.\n\nThe building slowly ingests the line we are standing in. The wait is a privilege: a time to eat our drugs before they search us at the door. And with no one wearing anything at all able to conceal even a piece of blotter, we need the time. Shane eats another pill along with Mike J, Chris, and Lindsy. I have 3 hits of L burning a hole in my tongue.\n\nThey make me throw away the reed sweat shirt at the door, the perfect place to dispose of such garbage. The women slides her hand all the way down my body and I shiver as she reaches the top of my exposed hips. I have a single cigarette and 30 cents in my left pocket. She instructs me throw these away.\n\nAnd we're in.\n\nA wave of heat rushes over all of us as the drum and base room to the left of the door hits our skin even harder than our ears. Asian girls by the dozen, with pacifiers chewed to shreds, line the walls. We can't stand it any longer. Everyone has to move. Bodies too beautiful to waste.\n\nThe time is 8:30 and a pill comes my way\nand down my throat.\nImmediately I find myself able to hit every note. Toes touching the floor 64 times per measure.\nMe feet race to move faster than my heart and I can feel lactic acid pouring down my legs to my ankles.\n\nThe floor moves up to meet me each time I touch it and looking down confirms that it is made of a kind of jelly engraved more intricately than the shield of Achilles. I can see the life time of humanity traced from energy conservation and symmetric information structures to single celled organisms to the tribal cultures we find today. An evolving story slithering snake like through feet and knees in constant motion.\n\nAnd by the time Ben Benassi plays at midnight I have finally sweat out every last trace of my previous existence. Every substance, no matter how non-polar, has managed to dissolve in the water that is pouring from my chest and dripping from the ankle seam on my skin tight jeans. Lead, geranium, arsenic, collected from my child hood as a human in a southern california town, is dripping to the floor just a few atoms at a time. My fingers move and the crack of electricity between them hits drum heads that resonate in the distance.\n\nAnd finally.\nIt is 2 am.\nAnd Infected Mushroom takes the stage.\nI look over at Shane who has his tongue pressed to the neck of a topless girl with four other guys licking every inch of her smooth body, glistening with sweat and spit.\nWild appreciation for the human form. Everyone just wants to understand their body. Feel and intimately know the bodies of others.\nI reach my hand out and feel smooth skin. The girl in front of me asks if I can lick her spine.\n\nInfected Mushroom rocks hard. Preaching about cities of the future and efficient living. Suddenly I realize what this all means. Why there are so many Japanese kids and why we are here. We are here to learn about what we have to do for the continuation of our species. We are here to get high from H2O before British Petroleum and Chevron start selling it to us. We are hear to join the movement started in Asia and the Middle East. LOVE each other. LOVE each other and be intimate with each other. Because the day will come when every city will look like Tokyo. If crowded spaces make you uncomfortable, train yourself now, because earth is about to be a crowded space.\n\nWhen the show ends at 6 am Shane and I are dragged by security out onto the streets. How could they do that to us? We don't have clothes. The streets are wild. It is freezing and no one knows what to do except keep dancing and keep touching. The smart people who hid extra clothing in bushes outside are the only ones wearing anything.\nI am screaming "THIZZ OR DIE"\n"IF YOU WANT TO LIVE"\n"YOU HAVE TO THIZZ"\nat the top of my lungs.\nSome one hands me a shirt with a giant peace sign on it.\nMuch love.\n\nThe cold burns, but we just let it drip off like sweat.\nWalking to the car as the sun comes up.\nIn the city we love.\nIn the freezing cold.\n\nBut we cannot defend our city for ever.\nAnd at the battle of troy, this is what cold felt like. A refreshing dissipative force in a conservative thermal system.\n\nAnd the acid heads and pot smokers can preach all they want.\nBut only those who can teach and learn the way of the future will survive in this world. Only those who respect the body and celebrate the nervous system will have the capacity for the love and intimacy which the future will require.\n\nAnd that is why\nit really isn't a joke\nor the stupid slang of a drug user.\nTHIZZ OR DIE\n\nbecause it isn't about eating drugs.\nJust like sailing is not about giant pieces of cloth.\nJust like skating is not about ball bearings and wheels.\nJust like playing guitar isn't about amplifier knobs.\n\nTHIZZ OR DIE\nIF YOU WANT TO LIVE\nYOU HAVE TO THIZZ\n\nAnd this was the best way to dispose of a reed sweatshirt.

The code is in Java.

Traffic\nCars pilling up\nincrease in density\nof cars on the road\nwhat causes this density change?\n\nIf cars just drive\nat a constant speed\ntraffic wouldn't exist\ntraffic is the result\nof changing speed\nand other cars changing speed\nin response\n\nRelative acceleration of cars is what creates varying density.\n\nWhen whitey speeds all over the road\nand weves in and out\ntraffic lies in his wake.\n\nAcceleration creates varying density in particulate systems\na wave propagates backwards through the line of cars\nthis is radiation\nthe car accelerates and emits radiation\n\ntraffic is a radiative process\n\nSo next time your bored in traffic\njust watch the waves bouncing\nin and out\nand all around

[img[TrafficSpark.png]]\n\n''What is it?''\n\nTraffic Spark is a widget that is diplayed on blogs. The widget contains 3 (or 4 or 5, whatever) suggested blogs that cover material similar to the host blog. For each click-thru generated through the widget, the hosting blog will receive one credit. Each credit will result in that blog being suggested on another blog within the network. A credit is counted only when it results in a click-thru. Click-thrus would lead to the home page of the suggested blog rather then a specific post.\n\n\n''What is the goal?''\n\nThere are thousands of blogs on the internet that receive very low levels of traffic. Many of those blogs try to earn money using advertising, but due to their low traffic levels, the earnings are nominal at best. Traffic Spark exists to help increase blog traffic with the end-goal being to increase the value of the blog itself. If a blog with only a few dozen readers is able to gain a few more through the Traffic Spark network, then the increase in exposure can be dramatic.\n\nFor example, if myexampleblog.com has a total of 20 RSS subscribers, the total readership is small. Using Traffic Spark, the blog could add 2 readers per week, resulting in 10% traffic growth weekly. Over the course of a year, the Traffic Spark widget would help grow the original traffic from 20 readers to over 100 readers, an increase in 400%.\n\nThe challenge facing lightly read blogs is finding ways to convert small amounts of traffic in to enough readers to generate real revenue through sponsorships, advertising, or on-site sales. Incremental increases in traffic are vital to meeting this challenge.\n\n\n''How does it work?''\n\nA blogger signs up for the service at Traffic Spark’s website. The blogger enters the name of their blog and a short description of the blog such as the topics covered by the blog’s postings. The blogger then chooses 5 categories from a pre-assembled list that define the blog further. Example categories are “Sports” “Linux” “Fashion” “Paris Hilton” “Technology.”\n\nA snippet of code is created that the blogger then plugs in to their blog. The code automatically creates the necessary widget, which calls back to the Traffic Spark servers for data. Once the widget is installed, no work is required from the blogger.\n\nThe Traffic Spark network finds other blogs that have been self-described with the same categories and immediately begins serving them as suggested reading through the widget.\n\nThe Traffic Spark software keeps track of how many click-thrus are generated by the widget and uses that metric to suggest the hosting blog on other sites in the Traffic Spark network.

When one file on the distributed file system needs to be concurrently modified by many executing Jobs, possible on different machines in the network, you can use a [[ConcatenatedResource|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/resources/ConcatenatedResource.html]] to provide a front end for accessing an aggregate of all the files in a particular directory. The [[EBayParser]] uses [[ConcatenatedResource|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/resources/ConcatenatedResource.html]] to aggregate the results of many queries to [[EBay|http://ebay.com]]. Below is a sample from the nextJob method of the [[EBayParserTask|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/jrings/ebay/EBayParserTask.html]].\n<html>\n<pre>\npublic Job nextJob() {\n if (this.search == null) return null;\n \n if (!started) {\n try {\n ConcatenatedResource.createConcatenatedResource(\n "/files/ebay/" + this.search + ".xml",\n "/files/ebay/" + this.search);\n } catch (IOException ioe) {\n System.out.println("EBayParserTask: Unable to create ConcatenatedResource at " +\n "/files/ebay/" + this.search + ".xml (" + ioe.getMessage() + ")");\n }\n \n this.started = true;\n }\n ...\n ...\n</pre>\n</html>\nThis code checks if the task has been started (ie, has the nextJob method been called since the task was constructed) and, if this is the first time nextJob has been called, a resource is created based on the name of the search term. The resource is created using the createConcatenatedResource method. The first argument to this method is the URI of the resource to be created and the second argument is the URI of a directory of files to agregate. When the resource is requested, the directory will be queried and the contents will be concatenated.\n\nFor example, if the search term is keyboard, then the ebay folder will contain a folder called keyboard full of files from each job. The ebay folder will also contain a file called keyboard.xml which is an aggregate of all files in the /files/ebay/keyboard directory.

Rings provides an HTTP server that accepts terminal commands and returns their output. This is useful for developing web applications that use Rings.\n\nTo start the HTTP terminal interface the configuration file must contain the following:\n<html>\n<pre>\n# Turn on http server\nserver.http=on\nserver.http.port=6780\n</pre>\n</html>\nThis starts the HTTP command server on the specified port (6780 is the default, so the port specification may be left out). If the HTTP command server is on you can send commands to the terminal by using an HTTP GET. For example, requesting:\nhttp://localhost:6780/?plyrender%20/files/scene.ply\nWould start a PLY rendering task for /files/scene.ply from the distributed file system.\nThe results of commands are returned as an html page. Some commands can be configured to produce rich HTML output. For example, the ls command can be modified to use colors:\nhttp://localhost:6780/?ls%20/files/%20color\nWill produce an HTML page with the files in the /files/ directory and the output will be color coded.

If you cut my throat from ear to ear\nI hope you'll find something worthwhile\nDispensing so densely and graphic I'm guessing\njust inches below my smile.\n\nAnd when my head tilts back till the ligaments snap\nand my eyes align with the stars,\npromise you'll be back there\nto catch my head when it falls.\n\nWe'll apologize tomorrow morning.\n\n-- Like Claws\n\n[img[Jake.jpg]]\n[img[Mambo1.jpg]]\n[img[Ben1.jpg]]\n[img[DaveD.jpg]]\n[img[LikeClaws.jpg]]\n[img[Kids1.jpg]]

[img[SBJosh.jpg]]\n\nThis is dedicated to SB Josh\nand is my take on his own work\ninto the study of meaning and definition.\n\nWhat is art?\nAn important part of understanding any human construction is to understand that these artifacts are the pillars of our understanding of ourselves and the culture we are a part of. Art is a societal and cultural artifact; a window to the collective unconscious.\nThe process of manufacturing cultural artifacts (art) is rooted in the process of associating definitions and language with meaning and thought.\nDefining the world around us is a process of creating delineations between objects when no such individuality exists. Electrons and protons are fundamentally indistinguishable and "objects" other than these hold no more power outside our own conception. A child learns to speak as it learns to think dualistically; to separate the oneness of the universe into manageble pieces.\n\nAnd perhaps the child will learn to create definition: to create cultural artifacts\nlanguage, images, art, objects in space\nIn this process the child's learning will provide a perfect analogy to the evolution of human kind. A perfect human life shall reflect the entire evolution of human kind.

''Poems''\n[[Day Dreamers Wake]]\n[[Fallen Angels]]\n[[Sounds in the Silence]]\n[[Moonlit nights]]\n[[River in the Desert]]\n[[BlazeOfFire]]\n[[What is art?]]\n[[Now I sit]]\n[[John Smith]]\n\n\n''Stories''\n[[The Battle of Troy]]\n\n[[Rock]]\n[[Dynamics]]\n[[Hmmm...]]

The Rings system is a distributed processing infrastructure that comes with a distributed database for storing output from processing tasks. To get the machine to perform a task across the network two interfaces must be implemented. These are [[JobFactory|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/JobFactory.html]] and [[Job|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/Job.html]]. A Job represents a piece of the task to be completed on one machine and a JobFactory represents the entire task. The JobFactory produces Jobs when the nextJob method is called by the Rings system. Below are some articles that should help you get started, but the most important resource is the [[Javadoc Documentation|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html]].\n\n[[Writing to the Distributed Database]]

During the execution of a Job you may want to store some data to the distributed database. This is very easy to do through the methods of the [[Client|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/db/Client.html]] class. The Client class is your main connection to the basic functions of the Rings API during execution of the app. Here is a code snippit that gets access to a file on the distributed database:\n<html>\n<pre>\nClient c = Client.getCurrentClient(); // Get the currently running instance of the Client\nOutputStream o = c.getOutputStream("/files/hello.txt") // Get an OutputStream for the hello.txt file\nPrintStream p = new PrintStream(o); // Create a PrintStream to wrap the OutputStream\np.println("Hello, Distributed World!"); // Write some text to the file\np.close(); // Close the stream\n</pre>\n</html>\n\nOften it is useful to create a distributed resource that dynamically loads content from other resources. For this you can use a subclass of [[DistributedResource|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/resources/DistributedResource.html]], such as [[ConcatenatedResource|http://jrings.sourceforge.net/doc/net/sf/j3d/network/resources/ConcatenatedResource.html]]. For more information, see [[Using ConcatenatedResource]].

Mike Murray\nemail: ashesfall@gmail.com