Lordy, the weather has been great the past few days. A week ago it snowed, and we got to build a snowman in the yard. Now its up around 70F. Thats Texas for you.

Been thinking about iComic futures. I'm still considering a port to Windows – probably won't use Perl for plugins though. Probably be JavaScript, as that would let me expose app functionality to the script so I could control how the app connected to the Internet. iComic plugins in 3.x rely on a Perl script calling down to curl. If you can do that, you could do far worse things too hideous to mention here.

I'd also love to make an iComic Palm Conduit to allow comics to be hotsynced to my Palm so I could carry them around... Maybe I'll get to do at least one of these things when the kiddies are away in Japan. Ah, to dream.

If, like me, you're currently constrained by the lousy 4GB you can fit into your server, you might be interested in Intel's 64-bit Extension technology which they finally announced yesterday. In a nutshell it lets you run lot and lots of 32-bit apps on a machine that has 64-bit memory addressing. Apple uses the same trick with their G5 processor to allow up to 16GB of memory on the box, even though MacOS X is still only 32-bit.

At the end of the day, very few of today's apps don't need to be 64-bit, but having access to a full 4GB of memory in each app would be great. Today apps only get a max of 2GB in Windows (or 3GB if you use the /3gb switch in boot.ini) and the OS get the remainder up to 4GB. With the 64-bit extensions, the OS gets the heck out of dodge and each app gets a full 4GB.

If nothing else, it should do wonders for the cost of 512MB SDRAM when everyone goes out and fills their systems with it!

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