…to be listening to the university radio over the network and hearing two of my colleagues presenting the program and chatting away about “relationships within the workplace”. Both of them sit within 5m of me and they’ve never talked to me as much in person as they’re now doing over the radio. Weird.

From out of nowhere Repast v3.0 has been released. I’m using RePast v2.2 to develop my urban pedestrian simulation and I wasn’t even aware the v3.0 was in the works – in fact, I was worried because I thought the project had been abandoned. Now they come out with a new-look website (although still not [...]

Great, now I can find more papers to add to the collection of ~750 which I’m currently trying to organise, annotate and reference.

In January I dragged myself and Hilary from Ireland, the best place in the world to live, to England, the 29th on the list. Damn! Of course, Ireland still has plenty of problems, and those living in Dublin probably don’t think it’s the best place in the world, but now I feel I can moan [...]

I’m a little bit depressed at the world today. Perhaps reading Star of the Sea doesn’t help — although we should all (i.e. everyone who can read this weblog) be rejoicing that we don’t live in times like those of Ireland circa 1840. Seriously though, what is computer science doing to relieve the world of [...]

After the disappointment of Google’s Desktop Search, I tried a few other search tools including Copernic Desktop. There’s a good round-up over here but I’m currently using Docco – it has a neat visualisation, written in Java using Lucene and can index pdf’s. It also doesn’t have any long running services to fight for the [...]

So, last week I mentioned my first python script. Last night, I wrote 2 more scripts (they’re macros for incorporating BibTeX entries into a MoinMoin wiki). The best thing about Python is its brevity. I’ve written three scripts and none of them are longer than 3/4 page. Admittedly, I’ve used existing libraries to make my [...]

The reason for all the posts is that I’ve finally finished my 9mth report (well, I think I’ve finished it, my supervisor may disagree — if he reads it). I can now relax a little, but only a little, and concetrate on developing my simulation. It also means I can catch-up on the rest of [...]

Until yesterday I’d never written a python script. Now, with the help of the pyAmazon library I’ve written a really short little script to retrieve my wishlist from Amazon.co.uk and save it as a HTML file. The difference is that I can include pictures of the items which amazon leaves out of their wishlist page. [...]

The soundtrack for the HP digital photo advert is “Picture Book” by The Kinks. Yeah, I knew you’d all care.