Category: Etc

Chet just showed me a fantastic billboard ad by EA Canada. I wish my company had fantastic advertising like this.

So, I’ve got a problem and I’m hoping someone out there can help. I live on the command-line all day, and to make life easier, I use subst quite a bit. Generally for stuff like this: subst p: c:\somepath
What I’d like to be able to do is reverse the subst mapping from within c# code. That is, if I have the directory p:\foo\bar, I’d like to be able to figure out that it’s really c:\somepath\foo\bar\ I need to do this because I have to tell some server-based processes where to look for diferrent things and those server processes don’t know anything about my subst setup (nor should they). Apparently ProcessExplorer and Handle over on the SysInternals site do this, so it is possible at some level.

Anyone have any ideas?

Via WebMink, a fairly interesting demo of a 3D desktop by Sun, written in Java, called LookingGlass. It looks pretty, but I’m not sure how much it would really help out. How would you use it with the keyboard, for instance? Anyway, it’s cool to see it working.

The fine folks over at mediumbold have a short, interesting series up on The Evolution of Type from pictograms up to modern pixel fonts. Definitely a good read if you want to know more about these little characters that we use to communicate.

I was just poking around dasBlog, thinking I might start using it as a blogging tool (i’m using BlogX right now), and I noticed that they’re using my compression module. Very cool!