Start of a blog
Right, well this is the first post. I should have started one of these a long time a go to keep track of progress and details which I would have otherwise forgotten and have done so. The main aim of...
View ArticleBlog Origins
I thought I might mention the origins of this blog and how it became to be published. This is not my reasoning for creating a blog (those are that I was copying Kat and Vivek, my friends who are also...
View ArticleResearch Status - how do you know?
Well, it's another cold morning waiting at the train station. I've read the poems on the windows in the waiting room many times, but they are still interesting. Does that define good poetry or...
View ArticleStart of the week
So, the new president is taking up office today, I wonder if he will make a difference, and a positive one at that. No doubt any speeches will be gaff-free, but will the head figure change everyone...
View ArticleLong weekend
Well, it's been a terribly long weekend with much achived. Not much sleep though. Sunday consisted of a two hour train journey to London followed by my first meeting of the trip with Matt in order to...
View ArticleVodafone
Last Wednesday I went to visit my partial sponsors of my PhD, Vodafone. I went to meet my industrial supervisor and try to tell them what it was I've been working on for the last three months. The...
View ArticleService Reward Elicitation
The main issue when it comes to automatically determining whether or not to provide information to a service is what benefit it will have to the user. Currently there seems as if there is no...
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The long-awaited Postfix setup details
Right... I've been meaning to put these details up for a long time now, but I've got some free time (well made some) and am going to put it up for future reference. The system allows for every kind of...
View ArticleNew iPod Shuffle
Apple have released the new iPod Shuffle today, which I found out by complete fluke. It seems to have some very clever technology, but then I realised it was just semi-clever engineering. The new iPod...
View ArticleAsus EeeTop PC
So everyone knows about the Asus EeePC Laptop, but I found out today that they now have a range of Eee products. There is the notorious laptop, a desktop tower-esk device and most interestingly the...
View ArticleWindows 7 - Those Microsoft Arses
Microsoft are "giving away" Windows 7 to people. On the whole a good business strategy, but terrible for all those poor people who think it would be a good idea to "upgrade" for "free" (as in beer)....
View ArticleIdiotic Outlook
Central IT services once again are useless with their choice of software and as such our use of Exchange server and Outlook has caused much important email to go wandering. It took the input of Zeyn...
View ArticleSongbird and Screensavers
So I got DAAP working on Songbird using Firefly (mt-daapd) from home to uni (Thanks to Matt for finding these). Then I wanted to be able to control Songbird easily so I went about configuring my...
View ArticleJava Flash communications over XMLSocket
I've recently been working on a Java server which will communicate with a Flash frontend. When I started I wanted to use embedded Flash socket code, because I'm more comfortable with Java. Hence I...
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