Entries from February 2005

Human Rights

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Finally, when someone starts on about their “human rights”, I can point them to a definition of such. Perhaps all those people who natter on about human rights should actually read this document. I only wish there was a similar document for terrorism/terrorist and the war on same.

Browser on Fire

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

The Return of the Ducks

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

To many this might sound like yet-another-star-wars-prequel. To you I say, “Take your head out of the bash shell and look outside, the ducks are back. Real feathery ducks and not a light-sabre in sight!”. Ahem. I should probably explain. The university has a number of ponds and streams running through the campus which are [...]

Always-on vs Dropping-in

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

danah has an interesting summary about the differences between those who are ‘always-on’ IM and those who just ‘drop-in’ specifically for a chat. I’ve noticed this with IRC channels. I’ve occasionally dropped by #foaf and #drools to ask questions but I don’t have enough of an interest to sit on the channel permanently. Particularly with [...]

Help Wanted

Monday, February 14th, 2005

I have a small maths problem which I’d like to solve. You’re all smarter than I am so it shouldn’t take long. In return, uou can hold your superiour knowledge of the dark arts mathematics over me for the rest of my life. I will forever say “I’m a mathematical moron but <insert your name [...]

Notes from the 3rd UbiNet Workshop in Bath

Monday, February 14th, 2005

[these are my notes and might not make much sense to anyone else. they're also inaccurate and quite possibly wrong]updated to include 2 more thoughts Last week I was in Bath for the 3rd UK-UbiNet workshop. This proved to be an extremely useful event: plenty of interesting research, some useful contacts, some interesting ideas and [...]

The Australian Model

Monday, February 7th, 2005

So, apparently lots of people are concerned about those that represent “a burden on society”. They want to bring in “The Australian Model“. Well, I think that shipping thousands of our most useless members of society off to a far away land, with a slim chance of survival and no possibility that they’ll return is [...]

The Challenge of our Llamas

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Hilary has been singing “Eye of the Tiger” for the past few days, which has started to get really annoying. The problem is that I’m convinced the lyrics are: Risin’ up the the challenge of our llamas I guess I’m not the only one who has misheard the lyrics, although I appear to be the [...]

Wahoo!

Friday, February 4th, 2005

This morning I had my 9month viva (finally! it’s now month 13) and it seems that I will continue as a research student, towards a PhD (well, once I clear the 18month hurdle). Wahoo! Now I can concentrate on finishing my pedestrian simulation (in the next few months) and getting into the meat of the [...]

The Button Maker

Friday, February 4th, 2005

The Button Maker (seen on del.icio.us) or even…