Archive for the ‘Computing Technology’ Category
Monday, October 31st, 2005
As if the annotated audio idea wasn't enough, today I got pointed towards details of the BBC's programme catalogue - a 7 million line database - which is being prototyped on a Rails framework. Of interest, of course, is that the database was developed and maintained by professional librarians, so ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Given my critical approach towards digital audio it's easy for people to characterize me as Luddite in tendancy. I'm not sure if it will help to say that I find this technology to be absolutely fascinating.
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Here in Urbana we're in the process of working to get our new radio station, WRFU, on the air. It's a whole lot of work, but thankfully we've got a good group of people working on it. We're also going to get help from people around the country when we ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
When I started using my current iTunes track as an AIM 'available' message - in response to seeing various people use it for messages such as going for grocerie soon. Wanna join me? - one of my friends pointed me towards this essay.
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
As part of my work on another site I need a copy of the mt-load.cgi file for Movable Type 2.661. Anyone happen not to delete this when they installed MT, or, alternately, keep a copy on file? Unfortunately it appears that I deleted the copy I was keeping archived at ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Various news items in recent days point towards developments at an EU level regarding data retention. This is, of course, an issue prioritized by Blair in the wake of the London bombings, and I've written on several occasions previously regarding the earlier push for an EU directive requiring long periods ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
I've spent most of the past week or two travelling and entertaining visitors, so I've fallen a little behind in posting various items that I would generally try to cover on this blog, so it's time for a bumper compendium:The website for Radio Research Ireland, a new network of individuals ...
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Friday, July 8th, 2005
Sascha has produced a good analysis of the costs of a wireless network along the lines of that being developed by the CUWiN project. I'd like to comment on - and hopefully improve - the estimates for bandwidth costs and the number of nodes required.
Sascha estimates bandwidth costs at $600 ...
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Saturday, June 4th, 2005
I just upgraded to Mac OS Tiger (10.4) which is generally wonderful but I've had some occasional glitches. Some are totally unrelated to Tiger - my iBook battery died, which caused some unhappy crashing - but with others I'm not so sure. One thing that has happened a few times ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
Free Press today pointed to a Chicago Indymedia story about the passage of the Telecoms rewrite bill in the Illinois senate. The bill still needs to pass in the House. For those who haven't been following this my colleague Sascha Meinrath has (powerpoint) [see also here and scroll down to ...
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