Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m currently in a “blogging holiday mode”. End of semesters are killing and I’m not well :(. So posts will be rare for some time. Hopefully in about 2-3 weeks I’ll go back to normal.
Posted in Computing on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In one of my previous posts I was talking about the demise of Microsoft. In fact, more than the demise of Microsoft, it’s the demise of dektop applications. Let’s consider the 3 most important things people do on a PC (we’ll exclude things like chat which is already web-based).
1. Office Apps.
This is i think what [...]
Posted in Anime, Music, Films & Games on April 15, 2007 | 21 Comments »
I like watching anime and I’ve seen quite a few since the last two years. I now even know some Japanese words other than “aligoto”,”katana” and “Sayonara” (hope I got the spelling somewhat right).
But I’ve also started to notice some stereotypes; in most anime you are likely to find a clueless boy, some very cute [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
You won’t find me writing a lot about football; I prefer playing it that watching it. Yet I think that what just happened in the Champion’s league, with 3 British clubs in the semi finals is really awesome. So to celebrate that, the lyrics of the 3 clubs oops 3 lions:
Three Lions 98
We still believe, [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on April 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You must have heard of it. Paul Graham recently wrote an article on microsoft entitled “Microsoft is dead“. But is it?
On the web, Microsoft is inexistant, apart from My Space (don’t remember it’s name exactly), it’s invisible and all the major breakthroughs are now done through the internet with Web 2.0. Yet, the beast is [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on April 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
“Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.” - http://www.opensource.org/
Some 20 years back, who would have thought that such a system would [...]
Posted in Computer Vision, Computing on April 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Image search on the internet relies mostly on text - in other words, when you make a query in Google Image search, the engine does not know what the image is about, but it relies on caption (human tagging - manual assignment of meta-data), key words close to the image.
Up to now this is the [...]
Posted in Anime, Mauritius on April 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
“Many” people seem to watch anime in Mauritius these days - at least more than i expect -; the shops selling anime are usually very crowded. So isn’t it time to set up an anime society?
The aim of this society should not be to exchange anime - it’s not an anime exchange society I’m interested [...]
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