Eye Of The Needle
New Veer screen wallpapers are out today. This months is ’sharps’ for me.
Archive for April, 2004
Essay: Cognitive Rascal
Cognitive Rascal in the Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam
“By feeding it example after example of the world’s great literature and music and engaging it in conversation, researchers hope to imbue the machine with so deep a grasp of human culture that it can pass a comprehensive master’s degree examination. Instead it prefers to sing.”
Political Volunteering
Whoa. web “blog”.
By the way, one of my favourite U.S. election blogs, [WatchBlog].
Growing Up
Adapting To The Market’s Message
“It’s too easy to describe these kinds of things with the boxes of words provided by sports and war metaphors. A better metaphorical system is environmental. By looking at computing as a world rather than as a battlefield or a sports arena, we can see operating systems and development environments as […]
How I Feel This Morning
Khaaan!
Keep Trying
Shake Your Groove Thing
“They are not afraid if a few turn out to be flops. Finding great new product ideas for Google is a statistical process. Google is investing in good people and is letting them be creative.”
Our company has been in business coming up four and half years now. I’m pleased that the […]
Not A Good Canadian
Lindsey Naegle’s Canucks Playoff Summary
I confess to following hockey…only somewhat and on the periphery. It’s a dangerous confession to make as a Canadian. I’ve tried, I mean I know the rules, watched many a game (I even bought seasons tickets for a year in my more financially flush days). Nonetheless I simply […]
Word Scramble
Noel built a scrabble tool, Word Scramble. I don’t play these sorts of games often, but I know a few people who read my blog who do…check it out.
Restaurant Waiting Lists
Pocketful Of Dough
“Two minutes pass — two minutes! — and the woman approaches. “We can seat you now,” she says, and leads us to a corner booth….
…I was New York. I was money. [link via svn]
What Now?
Blair says again what Bush can’t seem to…
“Of course [the terrorists] use Iraq. It is vital to them. As each attack brings about American attempts to restore order, so they then characterise it as American brutality. As each piece of chaos menaces the very path toward peace and democracy along which most Iraqis want to […]
Slightly New Look (Borrowed)
Slightly new look courtesty of Moveable Style. This one is Moveable Type-Trendy. Thanks guys.
Weird DNS Issue
Haven’t updated my blog in awhile…strangely I have trouble accessing the blog from home…via VPN from the office it’s no problem though. Weird.
E-Voting Ideas
eVoting 2.0
“Who cares if you got a paper receipt for a vote that never got counted? VoteHere is a new e-voting program that would make e-voting more secure and auditable than existing paper-based systems. “Voters would get an encrypted code on a receipt that corresponds to their vote, and at the end of […]