Rowland's Blog

Moved home

rowland — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:16:41 +0000

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

rowland — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:28:13 +0000

Heh, now I can blog while watching IPTV!

Watching some kind of sci-fi based on Total Recall…

More Information about the program.

Title :Total Recall 2070 – Machine Dreams Part 1, Episode 1

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!

rowland — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:00:13 +0000

If 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

rowland — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:55:52 +0000

Well, 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.

Britain as a Controlled State

rowland — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:10:48 +0000

We’re all doomed!

PhD Viva

rowland — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:00:00 +0000

Passed with corrections!

HealthGrid 2006

rowland — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:23:28 +0000

In sunny Valencia!

I somehow passed the US Citizenship test

rowland — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:56 +0000

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

rowland — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:33:54 +0000

Theme: 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

rowland — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:29:51 +0000

Theme: 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….