Sunday, June 25, 2006

A conversation with Danny

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"Danny showed me his video parser. I gave him a .3gp video of my son, newly arrived back from snowboarding in Canada. The video, from m...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Some 'Learnings' (sic)

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In the sense of Vernon God Little . 1. Be a 'yes' person. Trade little favours with other 'yes' people (in the sense of the ...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Lyme Regis

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This week-end we camped close to Lyme Regis. This little seaside town on the English south coast dates back to Saxon times - today it looks ...
Friday, June 09, 2006

Why big companies are more competent

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As Adam Smith noted, the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market. There are not many specialist rocket scientists, brain s...
Thursday, June 08, 2006

Laptop problem (cont.)

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The problem reported a few days back recurred in a different way recently. At random intervals, the laptop would freeze as the CPU was taken...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Video old and new

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Clare has managed to push my family tree of male ancestors back to a John Seel, born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1847. We have no idea what he...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Paradise Lost

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Back to infrequent posts here - the commute to London for the BT 'Wireless Cities' project takes up a great deal of time. Down to th...
Monday, May 22, 2006

BT Wireless City project

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Attended a meeting in London earlier today where I signed up for BT's wireless city project . This will roll-out municipal WiFi in a nu...
Monday, May 15, 2006

Really finished this time!

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Over the week-end I really blitzed the last chapter ( 12 ) on 'spoken dialogue systems' and produced 5,000 words, which is OK. This ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Data Bombing

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Something weird affecting my laptop. It has an 18.6 GB hard disk, with 5.3 GB free. However, Monday evening (May 8th) I got a message that t...