Visual Poetry Revisited
A couple of weeks ago, I published Visual Poetry , a Google hack to use image search to translate a sentence or a poem into a series of ima...
Friday, October 31, 2003
Thursday, October 30, 2003
That can't be good
According to the New Scientist , a US government funded scientist developed a extra deadly mouse virus, simlar to small pox, that kill mouse...
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Nigerian e-mail scams
Ten years ago I received a fax from a Nigerian businessman with a proposal: he had 5 (five) million dollars and if I arranged for a bank acc...
Monday, October 27, 2003
Iraq as a terrorist trap
When Bush said he was going to attack Iraq as part of his War on Terrorism, this didn't seem very convincing. Sadam did not have a lot t...
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Two new projects
I put two projects online I had laying around for a bit. ZAmazon is a zope product, allowing you to do Amazon searches from within Zope. Si...
Saturday, October 25, 2003
What are the chances?
This just in. The actor that plays Jezus in a controversial movie was struck by lightning during the shoot. Unlikely, but stastically expl...
Friday, October 24, 2003
Cool Stuff
I have no ambition to be the first blogger to write about this, but some stuff is too cool not to blog. First a real laser printer . Versa L...
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Computers: so fast and yet so slow
My first computer was a BBC Micro (ok, it was my parent's). 2 Mhz, 32KByte. If I recall correctly, wordprocessing wasn't much slower...
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Mind World Map progress
Daniel Moore comments on the lack of progress in the Mind World Map project here. If you look at the map, you'll see that a reasonable...
Refactoring the Law
Computer programs tend to start out small and as time goes by, features and new functionality is added. This makes old code more complex as ...
Friday, October 17, 2003
Best Month To Visit by Google
After I wrote about a failed project to use Google to find the best month to visit somewhere, I went back, had a look at the code and tortur...
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Using Google as Common Sense engine
Hjalmar Gislason has an interesting piece about Google Miner. Basically, Google Minder uses Google to extract common sense from the web, us...
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Internet history
The Internet doesn't forget that easy. Especially on Usenet, the original discussion forum of the Internet predating the web, there are ...
Open Movements that closed
Nowadays, if you insert a CD in a computer and the CD isn't copyright protected, chances are that the computer will retrieve the titles ...
Monday, October 13, 2003
Steven Berlin about email
Steven Berlin writes about saving email by better organizing it. All I want is two things: faster search in Outlook (why does it take minute...
Google Hacks
A look at my referer logs showed that quite a few people come here for one of the Google Hacks , so I added a new category with six projects...
Friday, October 10, 2003
Do we need Digital IDs
Kevin Werbag predicts the coming battle whether we'll Digital IDs will become mandatory. A lot industries will be asking for them, with...
The weird European stability pact
Why again do we have the European Stability? The Germans feared the Euro might be a weak currency, weaker than their D-Mark, if other countr...
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Bombing the Vatican
Whether or not Sadam Hussein had the weapons of mass destruction, most opponents of the war agreed that in principle removing a head of stat...
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Google Talk
Another Google project online. Google Talk . You type a sentence of three or four words and Google find the fifth based on the first four, a...
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Why jobs moving overseas isn't so bad
The same people complaining that economics isn't a science tend to not understand the writings of Ricardo about competive advantages. An...
Monday, October 6, 2003
Archean on runme.org
Yesterday my archean project was added to runme.org , a website about software art. Archean is certainly a beautifull project. The patterns...
Sunday, October 5, 2003
In favour of Digital Rights Management software
The beauty about a society where a lot of the production is actually information production, is that the economies of scale in an informatio...
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Visual Poetry Ready
Poetry is supposed to project images in your mind. VisualPoetry translates any text into a series of images by looking up the words on Goog...
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