Kyle Mulka's Blog

More encouragement to start a busines:

Bnoopy: It%u2019s a great time to be an entrepreneur

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

CNN.com – New WTC tower design made public – Jun 29, 2005

In my opinion there is absolutely no free software available today that is cooler than this. Google Earth, a 3D interface to the planet. Here’s some screen shots for ya:

Detroit

Grand Canyon

World Trade Center?

Awsome. I’m wonder if it is really cheaper than real furniture. I guess if you already have the boxes lieing around it is, but what if you have to go out and buy them?

FedexFurniture.Com

UPDATE 1:
It looks like they shut the site down pretty quickly, but you can at least get google’s cached version.

I found this XUL Parser for Java. Of course, I haven’t tested it out, but maybe I’ll find a use for it since I agree with the page that XUL is a lot easier to read and code with than Java’s Swing GUI framework.

BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Teleporting’ over the internet

Here’s a pretty cool website where you can find the latitude and longitude for a bunch of different places: Latitude and Longitude Search

Oracle has pledged to support the linux environment on the client side by making software to access Oracle databases through Mozilla. This could mean the begining of some pretty cool web applications that run within the Mozilla framework. Right now, I’m learning XUL in preparation to build some rich web applications.

MozTips – A Pathfinder’s Guide to Mozilla and the Open Source Universe

I’m still thinking that the Notification Framework would be a good thing to implement, but I really don’t know how I should go about it. I want it to be able to scale, but I’m afraid that if I don’t plan everything beforehand, it won’t. There may not be enough time. Maybe I’ll do something simpler.