Misc

Did I miss something in the clouds?

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 12/15/2008 - 16:09
With the idea of cloud computing now even appearing in the mainstream press, I was a bit surprised at Microsoft's latest venture.
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iTunes versus Amazon

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 16:46
We know Amazon is offering cheapie current albums as MP3 downloads, but I was more interested in 'legacy' artists - how's that for a nasty music/IT expression mash-up (and there's another!)?
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Green flowers, green yachts, strange moods

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 10:28
Having got the latest 'BCS Debates' video on green issues and how they should affect IT policies in the can (as we presenters say...) I wanted to share an interesting green resource, about which I had mixed feelings.
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Wind power: turn off the mind...

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 11/24/2008 - 09:30
...and let the heart decide. Thomas Dolby - around 1981. When we look at green issues it often comes back to power.
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Stephen Fry on Twitter

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Tue, 11/11/2008 - 10:26
I'm following Stephen Fry on Twitter - and for the first time I'm seeing a use for it.
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Really natural language translation

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 11/03/2008 - 09:31
A couple of years ago I interviewed an expert in natural language translation - she'd have laughed at this.
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Finally a Bowie post!

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 10/27/2008 - 09:22
The way technology has progressed on several fronts is nicely summed up by a recent Bowie experience I had.
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Robots will take over - or software

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 10/20/2008 - 13:45
We are pretty much all agreed that something will take over from man's patchy tenure of planet Earth.
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We're on the telly!

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Tue, 10/14/2008 - 08:41
Well, sort of, thanks to the wonders of modern media.
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The speed of ignorance

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 10/06/2008 - 14:30
Are technology and its applications expanding too fast for you? Take two dictionaries into the IT knowledge shower?
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The Google priesthood

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Tue, 09/30/2008 - 08:26
It always seems quaint when you read old science fiction and it describes one super computer as being in charge of the world, or that knowledge about running machines has gone over to a small cabal of experts who know everything, or even do things by rote as a sort of religious rite.
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Intelligent design?

B.C.S. oddIT Blog - Mon, 09/22/2008 - 10:19
A web developer friend of mine asked me a good question recently: is DNA a base 4 programming language?
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