John Draper's site now links back to my interview in 1995.

http://www.barbalet.net/crunch/

I also pick up a bit of traffic through John's Wikipedia entry;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper

For the past couple of months John has been working on a new top-secret project codenamed CrunchTV. As the project has developed various test websites have been put up in the domain to test out the streaming video content. But secrecy was key and the group that was working on it with John had kept it under wraps, under John's express request.

I was looking at John's Wikipedia entry this morning and I noticed it had a CrunchTV link - the CrunchTV test-site link in fact. Just a day before I had been discussing the press release for the site with John but I didn't think the site had been launched. John responded that the site hadn't been launched and he needed to establish the Wikipedia author responsible.

I didn't think the Wikipedia author was the original leak source. So I checked out the Google history;

http://www.google.com/search?q=CrunchTV

The earliest entry I could find was;

http://www.wz2k.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=2738

I contacted the original poster asking how he had heard about CrunchTV. He responded;

I found it through searching for John Draper... I then contacted him then he sent me information to the Site...

Good night.

The top search on Barbalet's Log this month;

800 414 4361 Miss Greentree [ from October 2005 ]

For those doing the searching, please contact me and let me know what it's about! My wife and I suffered under Miss Greentree calls for six months. But I still don't know the purpose of the calls.

(Legal information relating to Miss Greentree [01/06])

Good night.

Me over-looking Las Vegas last month

Tuning...

Quite a busy couple of days. Following the Log related narratives, it seems that a small percentage of both the Noble Ape site and this site are contributing to the AdSense revenue. It is quite interesting to watch the traffic and get an idea of how people end up click on the AdSense links. My current theory is that if people come to the sites from a search and find a dead end for what they were looking for, they have two options. Either click something or close the window. Clicking something is typically a shorter movement than closing the window.

A lot of the 30 seconds or less traffic the Log Archives seem to come from folks looking for specific information and finding a full month entry which is almost impossible to navigate for the correct information. Based on this I have atomised the monthly log entries for 2004 and 2005.

Some months were so big, I had to divide them into six separate pages;

http://www.barbalet.net/log/jan04_3.html

Some with four;

http://www.barbalet.net/log/feb04_3.html

This greatly improves the chance of someone finding at least some of what they were looking for. But at the same time, it also means the AdSense ads are more finely tuned to the specific topics of the pages. My hope is this will translate to improved searches per the toy soldier digest section of the Log. Following accurate data on this - I have only changed the Google Sitemap this morning - I will begin reducing the number of total ads on the sites. Perhaps removing them completely from Noble Warfare and cutting back substantially on most of the Noble Ape site.

Neglect Simulations and Education

There are a number of neglected simulations that live on the Noble Ape site currently, these include;

http://www.nobleape.com/ecosim/

http://www.nobleape.com/ion/

http://www.nobleape.com/planet/

Not to mention the occasionally updated;

http://www.noblewarfare.com/

Getting these simulations working in concert again has been a puzzle that has eluded a solution for a number of years. All the simulations could be combined with the Noble Ape Simulation. The iON code could be used to emulate each Ape for example. Linking in with ApeScript and all the additional functionality that is associated with that. Similarly Ecosim and the Planet Noble Ape development could easily be combined with the Simulation.

My other aim is to make an education-friendly version of ApeScript that will emulate some of the properties of LOGO. In particular drawing and keyboard input. Also mouse input, which post-dates LOGO. The big thing in LOGO was angles and distances rather than traditional co-ordinates (x,y) etc. This worked well for early students (I learnt LOGO at 7) who may not be completely sure of co-ordinates.

Open Sorcery

I have been exchanging emails with Bruce Damer on his Digital Spaces development;

http://www.digitalspaces.org/

I provided a short list of things I could recommend from my open source musings;

http://mail.nobleape.com/pipermail/developer_nobleape.com/2005-November/000212.html

I find myself thinking very much in terms of dot-points these days. I'm not sure if I am using it as a means of filing ideas for later retrieval, or what the background to it is, but I find myself filing things mentally for later addition to emails etc. I suspect there are some linked list properties in there that help me go through the points by thinking about the related issues.

A follow-on, but un-numbered, shows more of my dot-point filings;

http://mail.nobleape.com/pipermail/developer_nobleape.com/2005-November/000213.html

A mind is a terrible thing to paste.

Good afternoon.