Archives for the 'communication' Category
it’s magic
Monday, July 10th, 2006
no really
www.jajah.com
celebrities fix everything
Monday, April 11th, 2005
the guardian reveals that jamie and his school dinners seem to have created something of a paradigm shift for food preparation outside schools. which is good.
maybe we need a celebrity to point out some interesting problems in the british political arena. speaking of which, my local green candidate has a blog. would you vote […]
did someone say something about silence being golden?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
boingboing reports that in order to keep the local licensing bodies happy at Glastonbury, late night ‘raves’ will take place by wireless headphone.
an intelligent lack of structure
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
New Scientist writes about a research project to extract the most semantically meaningful pairing of words by using google.
they say:
The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed.
a good read. they use the ‘normalised Google distance’ to determine how related a pair of words are, more search results means […]
transportdirect dot NET
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Today the Observer ran a story about how Transport Direct gives rubbish advice.
A quick google search for Transport Direct turns up a case study at microsoft.com. I find titles like Fast Development, Lower Costs and Prepared for the Future.
Best quote:
We have been able to do it at a reasonable cost and in reasonable time […]
food:spaces
Saturday, January 15th, 2005
a long time ago i started writing food shopping lists.
then i began ordering them according to the departments i might find the items in, in order to avoid unnecessary walking and time consumption.
a short while ago i began adding prefixes to the beginning of each item on the list (much to the amusement […]
pirate taxi
Sunday, January 9th, 2005
while sarah was listening to (analogue) radio 4 at new year we thought that there was subversive pirate radio taking place in the vicinity.
every 30 - 60 secs there would be a short bit of glitchy interference. it sounded like some weird glitch electronica, but only briefly. turns out it is actually the taxi […]
2004 in review: NTL billing and refunds
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
this isn’t really 2004 in review. it is just an outstanding rant.
at the beginning of july I moved house, I contacted NTL in early june to have our phone line and cable internet connection disconnected at that house and moved to a new flat. all seemed to be ok. unfortunately they weren’t able to […]
too mobile
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
according to engadget, there are 110 live mobile phone contracts for every 100 people in Taiwan.
seasons greetings
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
spammers Christmas present