Nao Robots Dance

"Here's a sneak peek at the soon to be famous dancing Nao robots, the technological mascot of the France Pavilion. The robots are "rehearsing" before their first public appearance on June 21, on the day of France Pavilion Day, which coincides with Music Day in France. The performance showcases Nao's range of smooth yet agile and rhythmic movements to a 3-part music compilation including the famous orchestral masterpiece Bolero by French composer Maurice Ravel. This also marks the first time robots have supported an artistic field evoking emotions. Nao is a humanoid, autonomous, interactive and completely programmable robot created by Aldebaran Robotics (www.aldebaran-robotics.com/en), the worldwide leader in humanoid robotics." - [shanghaiexpoinsights]

This video takes geek on a spiritual journey.  The movements of these [Nao robots] seem not to display interpretative coded motions for a single human being, but rather display feeling and response to Bolero, by a French composer Maurice Ravel on their own coherence.

I do try not to post too many YouTube videos here.  You could spend all day doing this.  However, every so often as I found with the Flashmob content, their are several that deserve attention.  These Nao Robotics dancing fit that quota.

Google Voice Call Me Button in Internet Explorer is Broken

It appears IE 7 and 8 are implicitly blocking Google Voice's embedded "call me button".  For you IE users, this site has been non functioning while us Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or other Gecko like web users had no difficulty.

It looks as though IE is blocking cookies from Google Voice.  It would not allow me to forcibly change this policy.  I verified this with a 3rd party.  I decided to remove this Flash application.  I did ponder on the thought of restricting all IE users, though came to the conclusion that this would get me no where.

How long has this been going on?  Any followers have a clue?  I have not used IE for many months.  The embedded object was working fine in IE the last time I checked however.  Had this happened in a recent Windows update?

Microsoft is asking for trouble with this one.  This is still a little fuzzy.  If anyone has any pertaining information to that embedded Flash and the cookie URL location block, hit the comments.

BloGTK Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Dependency Fix: gtkhtml2 (python-gtkhtml2)

"BloGTK is a weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from GNOME without the need for a separate browser window. BloGTK allows you to connect with many weblog systems such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more. BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use." - [BloGTK]

The new Ubuntu LTS (Lucid Lynx) release had removed the dependency python-gtkhtml2 which is required by BloGTK.  You may track the bug #538773 [here].

The error message when starting the application BloGTK with this missing package is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/blogtk", line 14, in <module>
    import gtkhtml2
ImportError: No module named gtkhtml2

I resolved the dependency issue by installing the package python-gtkhtml2 from the Debian Testing Package Repository located [here].  This has resolved all issues and errors allowing BloGTK to run as expected.

The Debian Stable package will not install as it requires << python-2.6.  python-gtkhtml2 has been removed from Debian Experimental all together.

Cheers!

spamd line 2588 - Spamassassin 3.3

Just a quick note for a post.  When updating spamassassin binaries from source or a pre-compiled package, you need to run the command:

sa-update -D

The previous major version did not require this.  I am not complaining!  I broke a teer and smiled when I had seen the Apache organization had a spamassassin update.

It is squirrel Thursday! - Jedi Squirrel Victorinox Pocket Knife

Here is the situation.  You are a non-evil squirrel whom minds themselves good and works daily to diminish thought of evil.  The non-evil squirrel is approached by an evil Fur:

What tool gives this young non-evil Jedi squirrel his powers you might ask?  His solution was a Star Wars Victorinox Pocket Knife.

"There is something deliciously wonderful about a Swiss-made pocket knife, with intergalactic designs, imported from Japan. Just sit and stew about that. And people say we haven't achieved world peace. Nay, GALACTIC PEACE. Nobody's blowing the Earth up with a Death Star, and maybe that's because we've learned that we all share a love of movies with aliens and scruffy nerfherders.

If a boring red Swiss Army Knife just didn't do it for you, these officially licensed LucasFilm collectible editions will! Darth Vader's knife is bold in black, red, and yellow as he ponders the destruction of planets (or perhaps why he needs a tray at the cantina). For the classic black & white crowd, the Stormtrooper knife features a gaggle of Vader's finest soldiers. Finally, there's a baby blue and white artistic rendition of R2-D2 and Mt. Fuji. Yes, Mr. Fuji. We don't know why either, which is why it's awesome." - [ThinkGeek]

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Random Thought : want more sleep!