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Otter in Dodder
Posted: Fri 9th May 2008@10:13
I just saw an otter in the river dodder, I haven't seen one before, and being that the river is full of rubbish, I wouldnt have expected to see anything other than rats living there! :)
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The Bunny is Back
Posted: Wed 7th May 2008@12:47
Some of you have heard of him, some of you even helped pay for him, but none of you have sent him a message....
But now, the nabaztag bunny is back, and he's in the lab, waiting to be spoken to! Please be gentle, and dont go sending any rude messages! As everyone in the lab will hear it!
Send a message
At the moment he's on my desk, but he sometimes also visits Tom's desk.
Procrastination in an useful form
Posted: Mon 28th Apr 2008@15:16
Came across this site a little while ago, while procrastinating.
Basically, Structured Procrastination is when you make yourself believe that you have a really important task to do, so that you get all the other tasks you need to do, done first.
I will be testing it this week when writing an essay and doing a multi-agent systems project in procrastination of writing my IRCSET report - which is also due soon.
Point me to your blog
Posted: Mon 28th Apr 2008@15:07
After having found Geffy's real blog today and I rediscovered Neil's blog the the other day, I realized that perhaps I've lost other people's blogs too.
So, IF I KNOW YOU (note the IF clause), then I would really appreciate it if you let me know where your blog is! :)
BibTex for Microsoft Word
Posted: Thu 3rd Apr 2008@12:22
I know what you might say - why are you using MS Word, when you could use LaTeX?!! (DS, TH, GG, AG, Etc.)
Sometimes, well, you just cant be bothered, and need a wysiwyg editor, and also, you need an excuse to procrastinate (i.e. finding a way to get BibTex to work with MS Word).
So, after (a little) searching on google, I found a cool thing that this guy; Mike Brooks seems to have written.
Dead simple, download the .dot file from here (or from my server) the instructions are here
and stick it in
?:\Documents and Settings\USERNAMEHERE\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\
or for Vista users
?:\users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\
And you'll get some extra buttons on your toolbar that let you add BibTex entries to word!
I'm sure there are lots of other ones around, but this one works OK :) and I really must get on with doing what I'm supposed to be doing! :)
Google Sky
Posted: Wed 2nd Apr 2008@09:30
I came across Google Sky when playing around with Google Earth! I wonder whether this was in response to Microsofts World Wide Telescope?
This is really cool though! I reckon the best thing for mass digital map access since Google Maps!
I wonder what applications can be built using this technology? Perhaps augmented reality glasses, whereby you can look at the real stars, then zoom-in to see what they are like up close? ...
Or a similar thing using a mobile phones camera to calculate where it is, and overlay information about the stars it can see ...
or, a way to automatically calculate hyperspace jumps instead of days calculating them by hand... oh hold on... reading Asimov's Foundation series must me making me into a sci-fi geek! :S
First paper accepted
Posted: Thu 20th Mar 2008@10:20
I recently submitted a paper to Pervasive 2008 and I found out over the weekend that it has been accepted! :) This means that it will be my first ever published paper!
The project is called Sensormash and I'll post the paper online when its all finished and camera ready!
The conference is in Australia, so that should mean I will get to go there. :)
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