How my day was...

[mdlbear]

My day at work was almost entirely taken up with the Patent Review Committee: a dry run in the morning for my presentation, and the meeting itself all afternoon. My walk got squeezed down to under half an hour.

But the presentation went well; I'll find out tomorrow whether it passed. In any case, the next step is to get back to turning it from a bailing-wire-and-duct-tape demo into a real system. I'm actually rather pleased with it -- it's a system of physical devices, not just software.

Somehow I managed to twist my right ankle, just standing up out of my chair. Aspirin and a brace seem to have taken care of the worst of it, but I'm grumpy. That was the good ankle.

Not my project, but it's cool as heck and launched today: iCandy.ricohinnovations.com. No Linux client yet, unfortunately; I'll see what I can do. [11-10: Note: iCandy is cool technology, but it's still beta at this point and the site might not be the best introduction to it. The somewhat-misnamed About Us page might be a better place to start. Note that you need a webcam and iTunes in order to use it; we're all hoping that the need for iTunes will go away, because it's just as useful for sharing links to photos and websites as it is for sharing links to music.]

Comments

[mdlbear]

Ah; that explains a lot. I'll still pass along your dislike of iTunes; they need to be beaten over the head with that a couple more times, in my opinion.

I don't use iTunes, either, but I can see myself putting QR codes on, e.g., advertising fliers for my CD or for one of my websites, if it ever became popular.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

While you're at it, also give QuickTime a kick in the sweetbreads. I have never managed to get it to work right.

And, yes, the technology behind iCandy could be very useful in advertising.