For a while, I have been thinking that an Intel Mac could be the ultimate
development platform. I develop on Linux at work, but that sucks because
Linux's UI sucks so bad. Mac OS X solves that problem, and keeps the Unix
underpinnings I need to be productive. And now that Mac OS X runs on
Intel, VM Ware (or other x86 virtualization software) could be ported to
it, and I could run test environments in Windows or Linux virtual
machines. Heavenly!
Once upon a time, I wrote an implementation of
Fast Multiresolution Image
Query which I called
Eikon and presented at
CodeCon 2002. Then I got a real job and didn't do anything useful with it.
Now, Christian Langreiter has done something cool with the algorithm by
implementing Retrievr, a
query-by-sketch for Flickr.