Suddenly realised I had 7.3 gigabytes of unprocessed (e.g. unsorted and unplaylisted) MP3s knocking about on my main non-work file server . Half of that is Sonic Youth stuff (I'm sure some of it is duplicated, but I need to weed out and identify live stuff from 'b'sides from bootlegs), and the rest is a […]
Machine translation. The automatic process of feeding some text or a website in one language through a program, which then spits out the content in another language. Sounds great! Babelfish made it well-known and popular, Google improved on it a bit, but have a read of elfur's blog, translated from Icelandic to English using Tranexp.com […]
Bloody computers ... my main workstation, challenger, is crashing rather too often for my liking ... and yes, it's running Windows — Windows 2000 Professional, to be precise. Maybe "crashing" is too strong a word. It's hanging. Apps stop responding, then a few seconds later the screen doesn't redraw, and all I can do is […]
Ahhhh, Fopp ... <comicbookguy> best ... record store ... ever </comicbookguy> ... I've waxed lyrical about this on meg pickard's blog , so it's easier to just link there .
... it's half past one in the morning, I was just about to crash after giggling at Beavis & Butthead on VH-1, and now all I can see and hear outside is fireworks. And I don't mean small dinky fireworks, I mean serious howitzer-grade 300mm fireworks. Now round here, fireworks being set off by anyone […]
Just received a delivery failure report from some exchange server in a Regus business centre somewhere in the world ... California, I think, from the traceroute ... Delivery failure reports don't normally bother me, but this appears to have come from a failed spam attempt, using my email address (neuro at well dot com). I […]
From Penny Arcade: "I'm terrified of mirrors, let alone video cameras, which are like super devil mirrors with black brains that remember." It's so true. Recently I've been gravitating away from being on cameras. Some of my closer friends will recall the "woooo" incident a few years ago, where I wandered in front of a […]
haven't blogged, hence must mini-blog: went on holiday to great glen / caledonian canal / mallaig, went biking, generally chilled went to southampton for staff meeting, returned via london telehouse to do a server install found some more photos to bung into the album new photos, including telehouse , holiday , random pub in glasgow […]
BBC News: " Plane bomb hoaxer jailed " — get this ... this guy is late for his flight from Heathrow back to Pakistan, so he calls in a bomb threat to delay the flight — using his own mobile phone — then turns up four days later for the replacement flight, and funnily enough […]