mssv

  • Easyweigh

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Easyweigh

    Easyweigh is a nice little cardboard letter-weighing gadget that you can get for free from the Royal Mail. No, I haven’t used mine yet, but I do send letters abroad every so often. That it looks cool was admittedly a significant factor influencing my decision to get one.

  • iPod and RSS

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on iPod and RSS

    Apple, bless their souls, have just started shipping the Windows versions of iPod, along with the update and restore software that allows users to reset their iPods. Since the Apple and PC versions of the iPod are have basically identical hardware, it’s a simple thing to go and download the update/restore software and convert your…

  • Science Year

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Science Year

    I’ve just become a student member of the British Association of Science so that I can attend upcoming the Festival of Science for free. In the newsletter, I’m told that Science Year has been extended to the end of 2003. I’ve never been a fan of grand gestures like ‘Science Year’, partly because I’ve never…

  • Metafilter on the AI game

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Metafilter on the AI game

    Metafilter’s talking about the AI game again. I’ve already said a few things in the thread there, but I thought I’d add something here. I’m always happy to see that there are still people out there who are interested in massively multiuser online entertainment (mmoe) of the AI variety, yet it seems that most of…

  • Website improvements

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Website improvements

    I’ve made some minor improvements to mssv.net, by adding the little permanent link icons to individual posts, as well as the dinky little comment icons. I’d intended to add permalinks for everything a while back, since previously you’d have to sift through the monthly archives to find a particular post. When I upgraded to a…

  • Guardian Banks interview

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Guardian Banks interview

    A Guardian interview with Iain Banks in which he reveals he wrote his new novel, Dead Air in only six weeks. Should I be worried?

  • Kurzweil and AI

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Kurzweil and AI

    Hah, I always knew that AI pundit Ray Kurzweil was up to no good, but this article proves it. Kurzweil is fond of making grand – and vague – predictions about the future of AI, but as far as I can see he his only major achievement that could possibly be related to AI is…

  • Child kidnappings

    ·

    1–2 minutes

    ·

    1 comment on Child kidnappings

    There’s been a story on Metafilter that mirrors a recent thread on the Culture mailing list concerning the rash of media coverage on child kidnappings in the US and UK. If you read the Metafilter discussion, it morphs into an argument about whether it’s insensitive for someone to say, “Well, it’s very sad that these…

  • Euromix 2

    ·

    2–3 minutes

    ·

    No comments on Euromix 2

    With the recent and long-awaited release of Dancing Stage Euromix 2 in the UK, I decided to have a look around the UK discussion forums for Dance Dance Revolution. A lot of people criticised Euromix 1 for having a dated interface and small song selection, but at the time of release it used the most…

  • The Decline of Metafilter

    ·

    4–6 minutes

    ·

    No comments on The Decline of Metafilter

    Once again, Metafilter has me worried. Far be it for me to predict the imminent demise of one of the Internet’s most popular and well-known weblogs when it has confounded the predictions of countless others, but this time I think there’s a real problem.