Today in Technology Analogy Week... In 1987, three years after the world's perception of the possibilities of the PC had been changed by the Apple Mac and two years after the Mac's cheap knockoff Microsoft Windows had been released, the world's leading PC manufacturer released a new operating system. OS/2 was the perfected pinnacle of… Continue reading Windows 8: A bit like OS/2
Category: Non-Work
Porto
Earlier in October, along with a great number of other people from my research group, I went out to the ISMIR 2012 conference in Porto. (I was helping to present a tutorial; you can watch a screencast of my segment of the tutorial here, though I warn you, in this format, it even sends me… Continue reading Porto
The Great North Run
Following my first attempt at competitive (well, timed anyway) running, the Marathon of the North in Sunderland in May, last weekend I ran in the Great North Run. This was described in Wikipedia as the world's largest half-marathon until a recent edit demoted it to second behind Göteborg. Still, it's big. I'd heard some of the… Continue reading The Great North Run
A batch-processing system replies
In response to "Ode to a Preemptive Multitasking Kernel" I do things right, that's what I say. I take a thing: I let it run: It finishes, then off it goes. I take the next thing when it's done. My advantages are clear to see: Clarity, sureness, crispness, ease. I march on, forge ahead, in my… Continue reading A batch-processing system replies
A Watery City
A striking thing about the venues for the 2012 Olympics in London is that their locations make more sense when seen as connected by water rather than by road. The Olympic Park sits on the River Lea and a couple of its former working branches, and is bounded on one side by the Lee Navigation… Continue reading A Watery City
iPads in schools
Fraser Spiers remarks, in a review of the Google Nexus 7 tablet: My experience with two years of iPad in school is that the iPad can cover 99% of everything we want to do with a computer in school... the iPad can replace the computer suite I think the radical nature of his observation has… Continue reading iPads in schools
The Breakfast Post 