Entries from June 2005

eBay

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I’ve recently gone on a bit of a spending spree at eBay: Altan CD’s for £3-4 each, a 30GB laptop harddisk (£23), which I inserted into a slim portable harddisk case (£8), and a Palm Tungsten E (£55). Altan CD are typically £9-14, a 30GB USB external harddrive would be £40-50, and the Palm T|E [...]

Binary operations in Java 5

Friday, June 24th, 2005

I’ve recently been doing some signal analysis work, which required a small bit of binary arithmetic, and I discovered several new binary-related methods that have been added to Java 5. Many signal analysis algorithms require the input signal length to be a power of 2 (i.e., 2, 4, 8, 16, 64 … 1024…). What’s the [...]

Hmmm…

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Should I stay or should I go now?If I go there will be troubleAn’ if I stay it will be double The Clash — Should I Stay Or Should I Go

In Print

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

My book review of Geosimulation for the AgentLink newsletter has finally been published [2.4MB pdf].

I’m Back

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

150 emails – only 13 require a response or further reading.1296 blog posts – none of which were terribly important. How much does this prefusion of ‘information’ really improve our (personal or business) lives?