Yep, that’s right. And I even used a computer to work it out. I was up til 5 this morning writing a couple of python scripts to trawl through the data from the Reality Mining project @ MIT Media Lab and work out how complete the data was. At 3AM the last thing you need [...]

and 82-year old men are the new terrorist threats. Grrr…

(a.k.a, why incremental compilation in Eclipse is a bad thing

Fighting Hamsters! (despite repeatedly misspelling them as Hampsters)

CDWow have started offering music downloads (Wow Tunes!). Centerstage on the promotional flyer was an iPod Shuffle, which is stupid because the entire download service is based on the platform by od2.com using Windows Media Player. You can’t even visit the download site without using IE6 on Windows. Of course, you have to have some [...]

Slashdot pointed to a Business Week article about Yahoo!’s (way too much punctuation there) suspect practices, including support for web advertisers that use pop-up ads and spyware. The irony is that the Business Week article was covered by a flash popup (ok, technically, a pop-over) advert.

My pirate name is: Mad Dog Kidd Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you’re the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. Even though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

When I saw this Dilbert cartoon, mgb was the first person who came to mind. I’m not trying to say that mgb is Dilbert but the nonchalent expression whilst pushing someone into freezing water did strike a chord.

My PhD is the end of my research career (such as it was). In the future I want to do something else; something that involves working as part of a team.

Last week I started a discussion on JavaLobby about the new user interface on Office 12 (there’s more background and follow-up about Office 12 on this blog). Basically, Office 12 does away with menus and toolbars, and replaces them with a ribbon-thing which does the job of both. There are some interesting ideas behind this, [...]