Category Archives: Computing

Copycat Computing

As usual I’ve been accumulating a whole host of links in my feed reader without commenting on them. Here’s a few to help clear out the pile. Robert Scoble points out a post at the top of Techmeme. The post, by Yahoo!’s Jeremy Zawodny calls out Google for copying one of the splash pages on […]

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Links – Microsoft Powerpoint

I’ve been stockpiling links in Bloglines for a while now, but unfortunately barely have the time to read them, let alone make decent comments. Unfortunately I want them cleaned out, and so over the next few days will do just that. You’ll get a link and a brief excerpt – nothing more. To start, I’d […]

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The Full Feeds Debate – some evidence?

This blogger has spent two years wondering whether to make the move to publishing his articles in full online via. feeds. Instead they published a short summary of each article, requiring people to visit their page to see the whole thing. Here’s an exciting graph: Growth in RSS Subscribers – We added more than a […]

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Reasons to like Windows Vista (58)

I’m currently preparing a presentation to discuss progress made so far in my 4th Year Engineering project. The project is to try and build a music transcription system. In essence, you pump a sound file into a computer, turn the handle, and the score comes out the other end. These sorts of systems have many […]

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A little Google Bombing

With thanks to this site. martinlutherkingdotorg is a racist site moaning about MLK. Perhaps you’ll join me in posting these links to help knock the site off the top of the search engines. Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther […]

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ID cards

A new twist on the matter… I have an enormous amount of faith in the cackhanded, blundering incompetence of the British state, and in the gormless, pen-chewing, internet-surfing idleness of its employees – some of whom may well be reading this right now when they should be getting on with being shadowy and malevolent; get […]

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