I’m wondering whether research is the only career that gives everyone you meet the right to ask “what’s the point in that?”. No one ask’s the shelf-stacker or the professional footballer to justify there existance in the world. Does anyone question the insurance salesman or the engineer on their contribution to society? No. On the [...]
I decided to upgrade the MySQL installation I was using and (foolishly) didn’t backup my databases (mostly because there wasn’t anything important in them, just test data). After installation MySQL couldn’t find my databases… mmm… oh…shit… where is that SQL file with the database structure. Anyway, it turns out that the new MySQL version is [...]
us left-handers are dangerous, ya know. Interesting fact for the day: by 2025, BT predicts that 40% of the UK population will not be connected to the Internet (by connected, I assume that they mean via a telephone line). As a researcher of technology these statistics help bring me back into the real world.
This week has been a burst of activity after the previous 2 weeks of depression and disillusionment over my research. On Monday I did a pretty solid day of coding and on Tuesday I wrote a short paper for a workshop and submitted it today. The paper might not be the best in terms of [...]
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