I just received James Auger’s book, Augmented Animals, which I mentioned a few months ago. Inspired by the book, I quite enjoyed walking around this morning thinking about how the university ducks might be augmented (I’m thinking bluetooth info dissemination nodes to improve knowledge sharing between schools or vanity capes for the molting males). What [...]
MoinMoin is the wiki software I use to maintain my research notes. I’ve stopped using on ideasasylum because cgi python was just far too slow and my notes are probably best kept private. I’ve been running versions of MoinMoin on my computer through Apache for a while now but it’s always been a hassle to [...]
Whilst browsing around the Universiy of Cambridge’s CompSci dept (looking for this very interesting and useful work on Pocket Switched Networks), I also came across a site which catalogues all the strange things that CompSci lectures say. I only wish that this site had been around when I was at college (yeah, I know I [...]
The Olympic Powerpoint champion will be announced in the next 30mins. Apparently, Moscow, New York and Madrid have already been eliminated in the early rounds. Now, it’s left to Paris and London to fight it out for the Gold and Silver medals. I didn’t realise that all those middle managers preparing pointless and boring presentation [...]
Apparently, the European Parliament has finally thrown out the software patents legislation and there doesn’t appear to be any moves at resurrecting it. Wahoo!
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