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[22:06] Back online!
Muahaha, we've finally rejoined the civilised world - we've got the internet streaming live to our living room again! With very little effort I managed to upgrade the firmware on my UK-bought ADSL modem/router and it picked up the local DSL with no problems.
We now resume our regularly scheduled broadcasts. I've got a whole lotta posts stored up from before we even left England. I'll try and get all the archives updated and get the pictures uploaded ASAP.
[Posted at: 23/10/2006 22:06]
[08:36] They seek us here, they seek us there...now they find us?
www.polarrose.com is a web site proclaiming to be the homepage for some rather interesting functionality - it's not open to the public yet so it's hard to be sure. Allegedly, it will give you the ability to provide a photo of a person which it will analyse and then scour the internet (or at least Flickr) for photos that it thinks contain the same person, possibly identifying the person in the photo...
I imagine that if this actually works then they'll be bought fairly shortly by either a government (why track license plates when you can just track the people) or a company already in the field trying to sell face-recognition systems to airports/governments. I guess it would also be quiet valuable to larger search engines or social-networking sites also: "Scan your old school photos and find your old friends online today!".
There's nothing on the website regarding the name, Polar Rose, but I thinkg that it comes from a shape described by a polar equation; a branch of mathematics "...useful in situations where the relationship between two points is most easily expressed in terms of angles and distance...". This probably refers to the method used to create a model based on the picture but also has interesting allusions to the social connectivity of the photos being searched!
More information here, here or here.
[Posted at: 23/10/2006 08:36]
[17:39] Cisco changed their logo
For some reason, known best to Cisco, the classic Cisco logo has been retired and replaced with a (to my mind) rather dinky new one that for some inexplicable reason reminds me of bath toys?!
[Posted at: 19/10/2006 17:39]