tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51905112009-10-06T00:27:51.996-07:00Swing Your HipsArt, politics, science, love and rockets.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1116598339926826502005-05-20T07:07:00.000-07:002005-05-20T07:12:19.930-07:00Moving OnMuch as I love blogger, I have to keep up with the Joneses and prove what a serious netizen I am by setting up my own, so I'm moving Swing Your Hips to a new location. It's also so I can find out more about how some of the advanced blogging stuff works.I've also set up a Phil-style wiki for longer pieces.Incidentally anyone else who's called Crossan can have a blog or site here if they Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1116157343070450112005-05-15T04:38:00.000-07:002005-05-15T04:42:23.073-07:00Idea for an alternative way to do automatic translation: use an existing body of human-translated texts and search for matching bits of text to translate. This could be phrase or sentence-length. Also look for close matches and substitute dictionary translations of unmatched words. Of course context would mess this up badly but it might be more readable than current efforts. Someone probably Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1115985547419389672005-05-13T04:49:00.000-07:002005-05-13T05:25:42.360-07:00A few things to park here 'til I get time to write some more about them:* I went to the re:mix culture symposium at the university of sussex last friday. It was very interesting. One of the interesting people was Tom Chance who's already written it up here. I came away quite sceptical about the Creative Commons and hopefully will get some chance to write about that soon.* My friend Polly (artist,Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1111773825626416162005-03-25T10:03:00.000-08:002005-03-25T10:50:18.583-08:003d scene reconstruction, video analysis, creating 3d models from 2d images, extrusion, analysis-synthesis:http://www.mip.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~rk/publications/3DTV_Darmstadt.htmlhttp://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/research/3D.htmlhttp://www.synapix.comStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1111433540644008222005-03-21T11:23:00.000-08:002005-03-22T01:59:40.990-08:00VOIP softphones are phones implemented in software that use either the built in sound card and microphone of the PC or a USB-phone. There are loads of these, lots of them free, so I guess they can't be that difficult to write.Some are Java and ActiveX - so I guess these could be buried in your website.What about a pure DHTML Softphone - with the voice to phone actually happenning on the server. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1086197957726117142004-06-02T10:38:00.000-07:002004-06-02T10:39:17.726-07:00I like this: http://www.pubsub.com/ Apart from anything else, it allows you to keep track of who's linking to you or mentioning you on the web (e.g. who's mentioning runtime collective). Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1086018441934816322004-05-31T08:44:00.000-07:002004-05-31T08:49:59.660-07:00So it seems Longhorn is an attempt to rebuild Windows around Webservices, and at the same time to turn the web into an extension of M$: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174156&seqNum=6 The Windows API exposed as web services. The alternative may be XUL: http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/whyxul.html The UK government, LAWS etc. (especially the standard content) is a good startStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1070061796829972912003-11-28T15:23:00.000-08:002003-11-28T15:24:05.496-08:00So much today. How to interview a programmer: http://www.artima.com/wbc/interprog.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1070060142748536182003-11-28T14:55:00.000-08:002003-11-28T15:16:50.826-08:00Bruce Eckel on Thinking about Programming: I often wonder what the world would be like if everyone followed their hearts and ended up doing what they loved, instead of listening to people who told them to get real and take on a practical career There's something banal-but-not-quite-so-banal about this. I work for an aspirational (for want of a better word) company that believes in itself and Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1070030889363356252003-11-28T06:48:00.000-08:002003-11-28T06:48:57.216-08:00Want to use RSS syndication even on sites with no RSS feed? http://myrss.com/ It gets cooler the more you look at it. It includes a Javascript version that means you just have to drop one line of javascript into your page to add a feed to it. The basics scraping is based on a heuristic algorithm that works without manual intervention - but you can 'sponsor' a feed in which case someone will Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1067608370770603722003-10-31T05:52:00.000-08:002003-10-31T05:59:39.310-08:00I've been coding again the past couple of days - first time in ages. It's reminded me just how different it is from other sorts of work: it makes you think in a different way (see - I'm bullet pointing my post. I need structure, preferably expressed in code.) it's tremendously enjoyable. It's like doing crosswords all day. It quickly becomes meditative. That problem-solution-problem-solution Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1067520471838898402003-10-30T05:27:00.000-08:002004-11-11T03:40:39.673-08:00On Monday I spent most of the evening wandering around Phil's head. Since he left Runtime he seems to have become a kind of conduit for all sorts of strands of net.thinking, a really valuable filter. Emergent democracy lead me to blog co-operatives where I ended up posting about the Runtime experience. There are many things there we've never tried - liquid democracy, remuneration by reputation Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1066926757374661172003-10-23T09:32:00.000-07:002003-10-23T09:32:37.246-07:00Not quite bribery.org but similar - maybe extensible :-) http://www.moveon.org/Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1066925670848068232003-10-23T09:14:00.000-07:002003-10-30T05:18:06.920-08:00I had a though about morality or values: that human beings need a sense of awe in order to respect a set of morals. Or perhaps less grandly, that morals simply need to be aspirational. They need to come from heroes, or from Gods. This country's love affair with the war is a love affair with Churchill, this sixties with Lennon and Dylan. A secular morality based on pragmatism and books simply Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1058171546563903002003-07-14T01:32:00.000-07:002003-07-14T01:32:26.476-07:00US Online voting based on Microsoft Access, riggable: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htmStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1056894958712835862003-06-29T06:55:00.000-07:002003-06-29T07:43:51.440-07:00I'm a little late joining the Emergent Democracy conversation but here's my starter for 10. Phil Jones raises the question of disenfranchisement. How is it possible that millions marched to stop a war we all knew was being prosecuted for reasons other than those given to us by our elected representatives, yet the war went ahead? More importantly, how does emergent democracy, whether via Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-911365152003-03-21T10:18:00.000-08:002003-06-29T06:48:11.553-07:00First post is about the difficulty of setting up a blog. I tried moveable type but it was such a hassle to set up that I gave up (and I'm a programmer). Then editthispage - couldn't get my head around that. Finally come to blogger and my first attempt (kingsofspain) just doesn't seem to work no matter what I do. Hopefully this will. So many flaky programs, so many programmers ... I'm going to Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1065626021235405052001-09-19T08:13:00.000-07:002003-10-23T08:49:00.420-07:00This was originally posted on an old site about a year ago ... For a few Euros more 19/09/2002 Or 21 Euros to go We're living at the moment in an interesting no-man's land between the old, scarcely wired world and a future world of pervasive broadband. As we get closer to it, we become subtly more reliant on it, and the consequences of failure become creepingly more serious. Sooner or later Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190511.post-1065627050410803382001-07-26T08:30:00.000-07:002003-10-23T08:48:29.810-07:00Another one from a while back www.bribery.org 26/07/2001 how about this we come up with a programme of political reform - reassertion of social justice, cancellation of 3rd world debt, emissions reduction, funding research into non-fossil energy etc. etc. etc. etc. short enough but clear - a summary of the progressive agenda with teeth. then we publish it online and publicise it virally. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06746538798775905266noreply@blogger.com