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Stephen Fry on Twitter

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 10:26
I'm following Stephen Fry on Twitter - and for the first time I'm seeing a use for it.
Categories: Misc

Really natural language translation

Mon, 11/03/2008 - 09:31
A couple of years ago I interviewed an expert in natural language translation - she'd have laughed at this.
Categories: Misc

Finally a Bowie post!

Mon, 10/27/2008 - 09:22
The way technology has progressed on several fronts is nicely summed up by a recent Bowie experience I had.
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Robots will take over - or software

Mon, 10/20/2008 - 13:45
We are pretty much all agreed that something will take over from man's patchy tenure of planet Earth.
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We're on the telly!

Tue, 10/14/2008 - 08:41
Well, sort of, thanks to the wonders of modern media.
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The speed of ignorance

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 14:30
Are technology and its applications expanding too fast for you? Take two dictionaries into the IT knowledge shower?
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The Google priesthood

Tue, 09/30/2008 - 08:26
It always seems quaint when you read old science fiction and it describes one super computer as being in charge of the world, or that knowledge about running machines has gone over to a small cabal of experts who know everything, or even do things by rote as a sort of religious rite.
Categories: Misc

Intelligent design?

Mon, 09/22/2008 - 10:19
A web developer friend of mine asked me a good question recently: is DNA a base 4 programming language?
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My spam: Going up in the world

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 08:48
Remember when spam came from the Nigerian Minister for Development's widow?
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Asimov solved internet fraud 30 years ago

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 08:56
I stumbled across of load of my old paperbacks from years gone by recently and came across a nice security story.
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Get professional - get un-English?

Tue, 09/02/2008 - 08:42
So, some more from my current favourite book, Kate Fox's Watching the English.
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Germans expect things to work

Tue, 08/26/2008 - 10:13
When criminals' details go missing on data sticks, other countries laugh - what's our problem?
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iTunes winds me up

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:27
Your comments on my last post have really got me going. Now it's iTunes that has provoked me.
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Strange design choices

Tue, 08/05/2008 - 08:15
I complained a few weeks ago about opening tabs in Firefox - and got a lot of mail! This week our new Mac annoyed me...
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