It’s three o’clock in the morning. Apart from the fact that it’s too hot to sleep, I’m awake and at the computer because I’ve just had a phone interview. Hard work trying to impress a panel over a long distance conference call when usually you’ve been asleep for at least the past couple of hours. [...]
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I’ve been receiving a fair bit of junk mail recently. Fortunately, it gets identified immediately as spam, and my Bayesian mail filter checks through it for words that might help it get better and smarter at recognising more junk. Bayesian filters work by learning words that appear in good mail, and words that appear in [...]
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I am a big believer in what you might call Karma – or at least the principle of what goes around comes around. You do good things, good things happen to you. You piss off the universe, and the universe gets its own back. A couple of times recently, I’ve had the opportunity to make [...]
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I’ve been researching some stuff online about the history of the BBC. Now of course, I’ve gone throught the excellent series of books by Lord Asa Briggs (long, but thoroughly readable and highly recommended)… or at least, I’ve gone through the first four volumes. The Auckland Public Library doesn’t have the fifth volume (I have [...]
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