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Subject: [humanmarkup] A Week That Was (and then some) and Still IS
Hi Everyone, I seem to be having one of those weeks that manages to pack in everything plus the kitchen sink, not all that dissimilar from last month this time. I hope it isn't about to become a pattern, but I know it is only the lead up to the summer vacation/conference season, although conference season is now stretching all year, as opposed to the fall-year end/new year and mid-year slots. Regardless, I wanted to apprise you all that I'm running behind, AND I've chased down a viral infection, too. (That was facetious since it was the other way round, with the virus chasing me down.) I will do my best to get the minutes and website and the next element-body location out by the end of the weekend, but my body is informing that I either take it easier today, or it will go on strike and keep me in bed for a while. However, I am making progress on a fresh install of Windows 2000, and I actually don't appear to be losing either any data, nor some of the programs that I was entitled to install while I was teaching, but not to keep the disks and packaging for, since it was installed under an Educational Institution's Licenses, so that is one of the silver linings from this week of storm clouds. I was sorta stuck with a phone in one or the other ear while whacking on the Win2K problem yesterday, since it was the Web 3D Consortium's Open Member Meeting Day culminating their week of workshops at the San Mateo Sun Microsystems Campus. I learned quite a bit, not all of it good or hopeful, but enough so that I'm reasonably pleased that numerous pieces of that puzzle are coming together, and are scheduled for announcement to the world at this year's SIGGRAPH during the third week of July, and which I hope to attend if I can possibly swing it. It also allowed me to catch up on the latest developments in the Java world. I will attempt to give y'all a report on it next week. The upshot is the release of the latest rev of Java, so the coincidence with my Win2K breakdown is actually an opportunity to lessen the overall pain the keester that these first releases always turn out to be. Unfortunately, the breakdown of the Win2K installation prevented me from completing a sample of 3D Data Visualization in a Portal, which I was scheduled to present, and that was definitely NOT a good thing. I have attached the only deliverable sample of it I have at this point, which is just one of those numerous checks that one makes to see how things are looking. It is a jpeg of the 3D scene which is just one page/world of the Portal which will deliver customized 3D data visualizations in a Management Decision Support Portal based on the individual user's preferences and permissions. It isn't meant as an actual sample since the actual sample would be a 3D vrml/X3D set of 3D environments combined with (e.g. Embedded in) XHTML pages. The point is that you can simply supply a greater density of information on a single screen/scene/environment in 3D than 2D. Unfortunately this sample doesn't show that as readily as the .wrl file itself, but that file hasn't been optimized yet, so including it, let alone requiring a plug-in to view it, was just not feasible right now. I will put it on my own website when it is in more presentable condition. Now I will get back to reinstalling what software I need to reinstall. Since this includes 3D Studio Max and the IBM WebSphere Suite, I may be busy for a while. And, of course, this week wouldn't be complete without one more teleconference, the WSIA, which is the other group for which I produced this sample. I will be back soon, I hope, with minutes and website updates. Ciao, Rex --
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