Entries from November 2006

sigh…

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I’ve been stressing my poor little laptop pretty hard these days. I’ve written some python scripts that produce over 36,400 different datasets (72,800 files) but altogether they take about 15-20mins to produce. And, it’s going to take much longer to run the algorithm over each dataset, produce the results and collate them together. Ideally, I’d [...]

Your sat-nav doesn’t spy on you

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Based on a report by the Information Commissioner, Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 spent a good portion of his show talking about the surveillance society that the UK has become. Fair enough, there’s probably something to that. However, he also kept going on about your sat-nav’s tracking you. For once and for all, GPS devices [...]