When my wife and I are away from each other we sometimes play pool on Yahoo! games. They have some other multiplayer games that are really simple to learn and pretty fun.
Record everything. Once your life is half over you need to cue up the recording and start watching what happened in the first half of your life. Then when that is over you drop dead.
If you spend your idle time on images.google.com you might want to try spending some time on http://www.searchshots.com/ -- shows images of actual websites instead of just the images on them.
There are other visualizatin projects for the ODP that don't require as big a leap into a new interface and plugins.
One is http://www.webbrain.com/ which reminds me of a hyperbolic tree but is a little different in representing category information.
The other is a shameless plug for a visualization engine that I have created for the ODP that is almost ready for prime time. It doesn't really create a "map" of the ODP sites but it does show them visually as they will actually appear in your browser... it helps you quickly eliminate the wheat from the chaff when browsing the directory or search results. The URL is http://www.searchshots.com/
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When my wife and I are away from each other we sometimes play pool on Yahoo! games. They have some other multiplayer games that are really simple to learn and pretty fun.
It is hard to make a GUI for that but the people at www.sketchup.com have done a remarkable job at it.
Record everything. Once your life is half over you need to cue up the recording and start watching what happened in the first half of your life. Then when that is over you drop dead.
I have used them. Great service. Got the cert about 12 hours after I ordered.
ALICE can follow conversations and stay on topic with the tag.
I think you are dismissing Dr. Wallace's work too quickly. Take a look at all the capabilities of AIML.
As for stripslashes and addslashes you should look into magic quotes with PHP.
As for too many print statements you can do <?=$variablename?> to print more concisely.
If you spend your idle time on images.google.com you might want to try spending some time on http://www.searchshots.com/ -- shows images of actual websites instead of just the images on them.
There are other visualizatin projects for the ODP that don't require as big a leap into a new interface and plugins.
One is http://www.webbrain.com/ which reminds me of a hyperbolic tree but is a little different in representing category information.
The other is a shameless plug for a visualization engine that I have created for the ODP that is almost ready for prime time. It doesn't really create a "map" of the ODP sites but it does show them visually as they will actually appear in your browser... it helps you quickly eliminate the wheat from the chaff when browsing the directory or search results. The URL is http://www.searchshots.com/