Archives: 'August, 2007'

31
August
2007

RoboCup Soccer Simulator

I have long been fascinated by the field of Artificial Intelligence. Everything about making computers more human is interesting to me. One particular challenge put forth to the AI community particularly intrigues me. It’s called RoboCup. The challenge is:
By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that [...]

31
August
2007

Spain Invaded My Hometown

Apparently there’s an archaeological dig going on in my hometown of Morganton, North Carolina, excavating an old Spanish fort from the 16th century.

30
August
2007

Even Google Has Bad PageRank

The enigma that is the PageRank algorithm is the beast battled by thousands of SEO and e-commerce experts every day. It’s the complex system of weighting web pages that makes Google the best search engine in the world. But you would think that if any one corporation could comprehend and utilize SEO techniques [...]

30
August
2007

US Americans

In the instantly ubiquitous video of Miss Teen South Carolina’s response to a fairly simple beauty contest question, she uses the phrase “US Americans”. If you’re in the minority that haven’t seen the video yet, go watch it, cry a little bit, and come back.

29
August
2007

Spanish Current Events

A few interesting things happening in Spain lately. Last Saturday, Marga and I decided to try the local pizza parlor for which we’ve said “We should try that place some time” every time we walk by it since we moved here two years ago. It was as expected: mediocre. While we were [...]

27
August
2007

Tocino - Espresso Bacon

Today we will continue the series of “Strange things to eat in Spain”. You may recall such delicacies as pig snout, octopus, blood sausage, and cow tongue. Tocino is the layer of fat under a pig’s skin. It’s served salted and grilled.

25
August
2007

Russian Owls

Someone at Marga’s work gave her these Matryoshka owls. It’s some sort of corporate propaganda from some company that does business with Marga’s. Each owl has some meaningless (in this metaphor) corporate word like management, control, organization, sanitation, etc. She only accepted it to give to a friend’s kid. Anyway, I [...]

24
August
2007

I’m Scrobbling With Last.FM

I was prodded into trying Last.FM again yesterday. As some of you may recall, I tried it last year and reviewed it in passing on my way to another conclusion:
The absolute simplest way to blog your current song is to use Last.FM. They give you an application that you run on your computer (it [...]

23
August
2007

Fox attacks Iran

Learn from our mistakes? What mistakes?

23
August
2007

Design your own merchandise

CafePress has been around for several years now. The idea is really ingenious: it’s a website that will allow you to upload images and then sell t-shirts, coffee mugs, mousepads, magnets, etc. with your image to the public. Just having a site that lets you upload images and have them send you a [...]

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