well, for me the first think after reading articles like this is always the social part to it: where the name comes from ie. helma was the name of the waitress at aida, a viennese cafe, photran is a vietnamese restaurant in urbana-champaigne, ill.

it's a plug in for fortran guys to use eclipse. now, well, ok. who uses fortran? grey old men in white coats with a slide rule in their pocket? i have heard about fortran, sure, historical piece, early 60s and so on. search brought it up: nasa, boeing, weather forcast, scientists, ok. recall this grid computing bit brian told me about: stars, simulation and parallel computing ... but to they mean the same one? fortran ide: fortran integrated development environments ... well going on and on to decipher the message. then there comes the sound part to it. congrats over there!

The Photran effort is being supported by IBM under the aegis of PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System), a $53.3 million project funded by DARPA to support "groundbreaking research" in areas such as chip technology, computer architecture, operating systems, compiler and programming environments. (photran)

PERCS:

We follow an integrated hardware-software design that can adapt to different types of workloads, so that the system can accommodate the needs of different application classes with a single design point, instead of the current practice of optimizing the system for a particular application class."

have heard about this approach recently from a guy from verisign: no way to secure each application, we need to centralize it ...

or something like that, nature has a story about an austrian research project, where they flew in a woman, because she could make her neurons move like nobody else ... move yourself with mind

but i can't walk my way.

one of the nice things about parss is, that it somehow can do to rss/rdf what delicious does for bookmarking. if it is a group site, they can share their feeds as well as sort out their private ones, by merging them and select 'all' or 'personal'. even you can recommend, to stress a difference.

if it is an open antville blog (and you're logged in), anyone can get a glimpse about what you are reading by simply adding /feeds after the url. the same as if you wanna see the /referrers or /mostread stories of a blog. just in case you forgot.

days back you needed to quote by copy and paste, now you get the quote transfered to your weblog by one click and without leaving your site. the link to the original is provided as well as the text. even it seems to vary, how much of the text gets delivered.

days back people looked at blogrolls, and here at antville.org people use subscriptions. now you can check out feeds. does it make a difference? well, it gives you more information at a glance than a subscription list does. just to mention one. what else it can do has to be found out by playing around and to start to consider ways out of deadlocked publishing schemes.

if you wanna you can use it for wordsampling or whatever those hypertext poets once were up to ;)