Strategic retreat

Disappointingly, I’m giving up (for now) on continuing writing my thesis using open-source tools and DocBook. I still think that there are good reasons for having the source code to...

· 380 words

Fixing yum

I have two Fedora Core 3 systems, one in the office and one at home. Yum always works very smoothly on my home system, but at work I’m frequently bugged...

· 189 words

London olympics: should be a great event

Big congratulations to Seb Coe and the London Olympics bid team on winning the competition to stage the 2012 Olympics. My friends who went to watch the 2004 Olympics in...

· 71 words

Space scientists have all the fun

NASA consistently does good work in AI. I’ve blogged before about the Earth Observing Satellite project. There was autononmous fault diagnosis on Deep Space One, and the project to organise...

· 88 words

History from 2014

Very interesting short flash movie about future media spotted by Tim Finin on the UMBC ebiquity blog. The premise is that the movie is a short retrospective by the Museum...

· 132 words