2003

The Internet is fast.

Skype — the software I’ve been looking for. It permits VoIP across corporate networks.

Google lets you search by location in the US. via GoogleBlog

Robert Engle and Clive Granger won the Nobel Prize for their work on ARCH and something-or-the-other-I-ought-to-have-studied-at-B-school. I was outside Engle’s office last month (somewhere within 100m of the corridor in the photo), and that’s the closest I’ve been to an Nobel laureate. Of course, some people know him personally and discuss ‘stupid problems’ with him.

Schwarzenegger is the new California Governer. I wonder how many Californians can spell his last name…

Recognising the problems with PageRank. via RobotWisdom

Retire early.

Neat prank on the RIAA. Intruiging, though, about their contact address being hard to find. So I tried the same, by Googling RIAA

First hit: www.riaa.org/index.cfm -> The Page Cannot Be Found
Second hit: www.riaa.org. No contact info on 1st page.
Tried “About us”. No luck.
Searching for “contact” on the site gave 704 useless pages.
Google search for “contact” in www.riaa.org gives www.riaa.org/contact.cfm -> The page cannot be found

I give up. But this guy John Hargrave is good.

Cool. Cold, actually.

Proce55ing: “context for exploring emerging conceptual space…” Looks like a modern graphic programming language to me. Neat, but not a quantum leap. “The Unbearable Lightness of being a Pixel” is an interesting exhibit, though (for its name, not for content).