In this areas you are going to find a random collection of very interesting resources for anyone interested in computer graphics, education, maths, visual arts and more… hope you enjoy this little bag of goodies.
Website revamp
As you probably can see from the random changes, experiments and graphic tweaks the website is right now on the process of being revamped to WordPress 3 with a new theme that will require some fiddling for a few days until I get it right. Please be patient and bear in mind I am still working on it. Thanks for your understanding.
Hackintosing
I am fascinated by all these people out there spending their time on hacking computers that normally would run windows or linux to now run mac os x.
Free data for everybody
After today’s announcement on the new UK children’s database; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8052512.stm I worry about the data, which in theory is secure, but let’s face it, what credibility does the Labour government has on the subject; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7771787.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7103911.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8033172.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8003757.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/7935210.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7345533.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7148770.stm (there are many many more examples but I got tired of writing them) So as you can imagine I am very worried indeed on the whole subject of data centralization in the hands of government officials, let’s face it, they don’t know what they are doing at all.
Google vs. Wolfram|Alpha
Just lately has been quite a bit of press on the new project from Wolfram, and the media hinted to the “Google Killer” which in my opinion is a bit misleading as this is not a competitor on searching, but a competitor in quality of information and a research tool. So where are these two huge projects going? In my opinion a small answer is not possible, you have to understand a bit what Google and Wolfram do and where they come from but more importantly where the new Alpha tool lives today.
Splunk and the new era of search
Well, it was a matter of time till someone does come up with on-the-fly search for the arbitrary software output and performs all sorts of advanced analysis on the huge volume of information coming out of hundreds or even thousands of machines.
A mountain of passwords
Seems the internet as it is, with thousands of sites asking for your data again and again is becoming more a password nightmare than a navigation pleasure. Specially the distinction you end up doing between not-that-important sites and here-is-my-money sites which require a stronger and different password than your mother’s name.
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