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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Software that listens to music – Radio 4 podcast

Monday, June 25, 2007

Radio 4’s In Business program ran this story about software that is being used to analyse music and movies to determine whether they will be successful or not. For music there were a couple of applications, one being Platinum Blue, that analyse various characteristics (beat, pitch, length, structure and so on) of a sound file [...]

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Back in more ways than one

Thursday, June 21, 2007

The night before the holiday I practically killed this blog (not that anyone much would notice…) by trying to install a fancy Flickr extension for Movable Type, my blog software. After many hours of installing, restoring, backing up, deleting, moving and such like, it’s working again, with most of the features I want.
One of the [...]

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epv0074

Friday, June 15, 2007

epv0074

Originally uploaded by harkmopwood

Oia is incredibly photogenic. I’m posting a few sample photos, so you can see what I mean.

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epv0178

Friday, June 15, 2007

epv0178

Originally uploaded by harkmopwood

Oia is incredibly photogenic. I’m posting a few sample photos, so you can see what I mean.

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epv0209

Friday, June 15, 2007

epv0209

Originally uploaded by harkmopwood

Oia is incredibly photogenic. I’m posting a few sample photos, so you can see what I mean.

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On holiday – here or there

Monday, June 11, 2007

It’s time to head off to the Sun (hopefully!) for a few days, so I don’t expect to be blogging much. I have signed up with Here or There, the latest venture from Howzat, and I’m going to try it out for photos etc, as well as using Flickr’s excellent photo blogging AP, which should [...]

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An experiment – life without Windows

Monday, June 4, 2007

I started an experiment on Friday, to see if I can function without Windows XP for a few weeks.
I’ve installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and at home we use Mac OS X, and so far so good. 2 things I’ve had to do that no non-technical person would be expected to, were to install [...]

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