Michael Koby

Microsoft has released their Robotics Studio to the public. This is pretty cool. If you have supported hardware (some Lego Mindstorm products or a Roomba, amoung others) you can program them in Visual Basic, C# or even IronPython (a CLR version of Python).

I think this is pretty cool just because robots have always interested me. I personally do not currently own any Lego Mindstorm products but think they are interesting as well. Now with the ability to program them in C# (my language of choice), I might just go and pick something up just to see what I can do with it.

I wonder how long until someone codes a robot to follow the three laws.

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I just discovered something really cool on del.icio.us, a social bookmarking website.

One of the things you can do with del.icio.us is tag bookmarks “for” other people in your network. So if you found something that you think I might like you would tag it with “for:mkoby” and I would see it on my del.icio.us account. Well I was wondering if there was a way to have those “for” links come to me instead of me going to the del.icio.us website and looking at them. Behold I found a solution. If you have a del.icio.us account here’s how you would do it.

1) Login to your del.icio.us account
2) Goto http://del.icio.us/for/%5Busername%5D replacing [username] with your username.
3) At the bottom of this page is a RSS icon (see image).

4) Add that RSS link to your favorite RSS reader and BAM. You have your “for” feeds coming to you (see image, click for larger image).

While I am sure others have already figured this out, this is something new to me so I thought I would share it with others. Pretty nifty.

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I just discovered something really cool on del.icio.us, a social bookmarking website.

One of the things you can do with del.icio.us is tag bookmarks “for” other people in your network. So if you found something that you think I might like you would tag it with “for:mkoby” and I would see it on my del.icio.us account. Well I was wondering if there was a way to have those “for” links come to me instead of me going to the del.icio.us website and looking at them. Behold I found a solution. If you have a del.icio.us account here’s how you would do it.

1) Login to your del.icio.us account
2) Goto http://del.icio.us/for/%5Busername%5D replacing [username] with your username.
3) At the bottom of this page is a RSS icon (see image).

4) Add that RSS link to your favorite RSS reader and BAM. You have your “for” feeds coming to you (see image, click for larger image).

While I am sure others have already figured this out, this is something new to me so I thought I would share it with others. Pretty nifty.

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This article is part of the series What to Buy This Christmas. This series of articles goes over this season’s biggest items and their competitors. Helping you, the reader, make informed purchase decisions this holiday season.

In case you did not hear, read, or watch the news over the past month you might have missed the fact that there are two new gaming systems out. Now whether or not they are available for purchase is something that will be up for debate till at least the end of the year. The two new game systems are Sony’s Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii. Both are each company’s attempt at next generation gaming where high definition rules the screen. Microsoft’s XBox 360 has been out for just over a year now and is the Playstation 3’s direct competition. What I plan to over today is now to pick the best system for you or your child’s overall needs. The basic premise is to give you a rundown on each system and the pros and cons of each. Every system is going to have its own set of plus and minuses and each system is going to work better with certain kinds of people. So lets get to it.
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