I was trying to read this morning, but as it happened my laptop was angled such that it was clear view, and the Picasa screensaver came on. I couldn’t stop looking at it: it has some pretty pictures and some good memories on it.
This got me to thinking: what would persuade me to cave [...]
Warning: I disappear for weeks, and when I come back it’s a geek post. Sorry.
There’s an old saying: “Real programmers use C”. If you mention this in the wrong circles, it will degenerate into a pointless “four Yorkshiremen” contest, in which someone eventually awards themselves the crown of being the most “real” programmer because [...]
… and Sandy reminds me about Twitter.
Twitter is a peculiarly simple thing. If you ignore the technology, it’s basically micro-blogging. That is, it lets you publish a short piece of text, which gets a timestamp, and is broadcast for anyone to see. And that’s pretty much it. An individual entry is known as a [...]
I mean who wouldn’t. Look at that cheeky ‘hot secretary’ smile. The saucy bob; the perfectly curled eyelashes, and that pencil behind the ear denoting efficiency. Hubba!
Sandy, at IWantSandy.com is a ‘virtual personal assistant’. Really, ’she’ is a cross between ‘Eliza’ the old and unconvincing AI conversation program, and an online calendar, contact list [...]
In wondered what the details of the Kindle’s main file format, AZW, was. It’s well know that it’s based on the common .mobi format, which has been used by MobiPocket for eBooks for some time. But where is that format documented? Nowhere public, it seems.
There are enough interested parties to be working it out, [...]
Since talking about the Kindle the other day, I’ve been reading articles and comments, and thinking about eBooks some more.
A pervasive attitude is one of reverence towards the book’s form. You can’t replace a book, people say, because the shape of a book, it’s cover art, its smell. All these things are important, they [...]
I’ve written a fair few TCP/IP servers in my time. In C, always based around the accept() and fork() model. In Java, both using the similar accept()/Thread.start() model, and with the schmancy NIO select() approach.
Now, really, most of us don’t have to worry about the massive loads that make process spawning overheads or thread [...]
Amazon has launched its eBook reader, and it’s called ‘Kindle’.
It’s a nifty gadget, and it throws up a lot of questions about what it is we expect from books, and what we can expect in future.
Are you interested in power kites? Did you cobble together a Genetic Algorithm project for your degree? Did you also study Neural Networks (although the maths was a bit tricky)?
Are you my doppelganger?
Would you therefore be interested in a paper from the University of Sussex in which they breed neural networks to fly power [...]
I ran out of space on my laptop, so I put a new disk drive in. Too tight to buy Ghost or anything like that, I elected to migrate my old stuff using Open Source tools. All the tools I needed were on SystemRescueCd.
I did hit a few issues, and I didn’t find an [...]