Childcare Brokerage in Australia
Posted on May 19, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
We have had many experiences with searching for childcare in and around Brisbane, and I have always maintained that things would work better if waiting lists were maintained centrally (perhaps by a government department) so that parents didn’t have to put their child on 50 waiting lists, and so children could be automatically removed from [...]
Read More..>>Audio Visual Speech Databases
Posted on May 18, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 1 Comment
One of the problems with choosing to do research into audio-visual speech processing, as I am, is finding data to perform experiments on. In the acoustic-only speech processing world there is a good number of databases that are phonetically balanced and accurately transcribed at word and phone levels (TIMIT would be a good example). In [...]
Read More..>>Graduation Cap Hack
Posted on May 16, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Graduation Cap Hack:
Just a brief background about me and this hack. About a year and a half ago they cut my major (Technology Education) at Virginia Tech. Thanks by the way. This left my major of 13 with only one overworked professor and two doctoral students to teach us. This didn’t really leave us very [...]
Selling on eBay
Posted on May 15, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
We’ve got a fair bit of junk around here, so I thought I’d dive into the deep pool (swamp?) that is eBay. I’m starting small with a 64 MB compact flash card with PC card adaptor, anybody want? If all goes well I’ll probably progress to bigger items like my old notebook with the broken [...]
Read More..>>20 Questions Neural network
Posted on May 10, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Go, play this. It will be addictive. You can get also get a portable ‘orb’ version. I want. thanks, cool tools.
Read More..>>uNSLUng – hacking the Linksys NSLU file server
Posted on May 10, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, NAS, NSLU, linux | 3 Comments
WOW. This is so incredibly cool. Linksys’s NSLU device is a consumer network storage device that allows you to connect up to two USB hardrives to a network. Go look. What’s special is that it is actually a little linux box. And this online community is dedicated to improving the firmware distro on this box [...]
Read More..>>iPods prompt Australian copyright rethink
Posted on May 10, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Australian IT – iPods prompt copyright rethink (Paul Osborne, MAY 06, 2005):
Mr Ruddock said the review would examine whether an exception or specific exceptions to copyright based on fair use should be adopted to make copyright law more flexible in the digital age.
‘Many Australians believe, quite reasonably, that they should be able to record a [...]
Amusing logical test
Posted on May 9, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
An amusing logic test. Some examples:
3. The number of questions with the answer E is (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
4. The number of questions with the answer A is (A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
Thanks Boing Boing
UPDATE: I did it! The solution is dadbeddedabadbadbabe. hehe.
USB Barbie
Posted on May 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Boing boing report on “the bestest Barbie doll mod ever“.
Read More..>>moss graffiti
Posted on May 5, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This spider is made of moss. Find out how. thanks make blog
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