I am going to move the hosting of this blog to a more stable server soon. This will involve as much as a day of downtime, and then it will hopefully cut the amount of subsequent downtime significantly. With luck there’ll be no more than a half-hour break in availability, though. Keep an eye on …
John over at The Mighty Atom has some good advice. Reproduced here: Connected: The character has relationships (positive and negative) with other significant characters in the situation. Committed: The character has a stake in the outcome of the situation, and will stay to see it through. Capable: The character has the capacity to affect change …
I suppose I must comment on it. I went, I saw, I enjoyed. But I don’t think I enjoyed it for the reasons one “should” enjoy a movie. Avatar has been dominating the airwaves and the conversations around me a lot. It’s certainly good in many respects, and the amount of conversational fodder it has …
Too much happening lately to catch up on writing about: saw Vienna Teng, awesome as ever, with Allie, awesome as ever. Snow again, just after I made it into NYC for a quick seeing of Miles and Mendez and Lisa, and Avatar. The movie was visually stunning, had a fine but thin story, and some …
Is still cool. I’ve got a pile of invites; anyone want one? (Since people keep asking: Google Wave is not, in and of itself, anything new. It is, rather, a beautifully conceived [though not yet quite fully implemented!] melding of existing technologies. The tag-line version is that it is a integration of wiki, IM, email, …
The inimitable @andrewa121 pointed out that the iPhone has greater extended-latin input abilities than I had ascribed to it; he suggested touch-and-hold to get options for accented characters (which is exactly what one does in Android 2.0). I would like to state for the record that I had tried this unsuccessfully on an iPhone 3GS …
Well, I’ve had this phone for a bit now, and thought it time to give my thoughts on it. They are basically positive—if you’re a nerdy guy, this is a good smartphone for you. The pros are good pros for me, and the cons are cons that don’t bother me, but might be bad for …
I sat in on a seminar at Berkeley. Fantastic. I feel like a fish back in water, my mind latching on to novel approaches to familiar problems—the Problem, really. Human language, what is its form? What are its possible forms? There are reasons I love Cyteen. The department seems to offer the most wonderful mix …
First impressions: I like this place a lot more. It reminds me of Cambridge, MA: the urban environment is vital, not kept at arm’s length, and has and independent life. Also, the area is denser with people I know—not something to sneeze at. Yesterday, went to a ling department colloquium, and had great fun there …
Good: Awesome research happening here; chances to do grammar induction with sparse data, or, more accurately, work on it. They sure have funding. Bad: Beautiful lawns with no one on them. Feels like southern California. Definitely exclusive; will my patent application make up for my lack of published work?