Since moving to Hong Kong and not updating this blog for such a long time, I’ve started a new blog at “rowlandwatkins.com”:http://rowlandwatkins.com. This blog will no longer be attended to!
Joost blogging
Thu 30 August, 2007Heh, now I can blog while watching IPTV!
Watching some kind of sci-fi based on Total Recall…
More Information about the program.
Description : When Hume’s long time CPB partner is killed and a 12-year-old boy disappears, Hume works begrudgingly with his new by-the-book partner, determined to recover the boy safely and see…
Third-OpenSSL-build-lucky!
Wed 30 August, 2006If any of you poor sods ever attempt to install KCA, make sure you build it with openssl-0.9.6l – openssl-0.9.6m WILL NOT WORK. It’s all very sad, and totally mad.
CFA Level II
Wed 16 August, 2006Well, it appears my wife successfully passed her CFA Level II exam! Bloody well done! Only one more exam to go.
To find out how insane CFA is, go here.
I somehow passed the US Citizenship test
Wed 31 May, 2006| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
 Congratulations – you got 9 out of 10 correct! |
Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?
I bet I’d fail the new UK test!
WWW2006 Day Two – Morning Session
Wed 24 May, 2006Theme: Next Wave
Next Wave of the Semantic Web: Plenary Panel
Panel Chair – Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton)
Richard Benjamins (iSOCO)
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C)
Jim Hendler (MINDSWAP)
Clare Hart (Factiva)
Nice discussion on the next stage in the web.
Although today was the first day of technical content at the conference, there wasn't as much on in the morning as I would have hoped. There was plenty on spam prevention and Semantic Web, but I'd spent most on Monday listening to that.
WWW2006 Day One
Tue 23 May, 2006Theme: Business Success
Not much to say about the rest of day one – lots o tutorials and presentations by industrialists. There were a couple of decent presentations by Mike Harris of Egg and Jeff Barr of Amazon.
Mike Harris introduced a new Web 2.0 style startup called garlik. Garlik apparently lets users manage, protect and promote personal information online. While it is possible to register for the service, it does not appear to be online yet.
Jeff Barr is described as an evangelist at Amazon – he certainly lives up to that title! He gave an overview of several interesting technologies used at Amazon including something called the Mechanical Turk, which brings the human element back into job execution. Apparently Amazon has discovered that humans are better at some things than computers!
You can also earn money doing jobs these magic machines cannot do….
