- ARCHIVE / October, 2006
- Morning quote
Phd life.. it’s easy to lose track of what you’re looking for, and even more, of where you’re coming from. This morning I ran into a quote from Marcel Proust that offered an interesting and inspiring perspective on the overall process… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having […]
- Firefox 2.0 – will I ever go back to Safari?
Unfortunately, this is the truth – it looks and performs greatly. It’s Firefox 2. I just installed it, (yes it’s a “boring” saturday afternoon, just me and my mac) and found out some new and old features… I was particularly missing the possibility of having dropdown folders on the bookmark bar (like in Safari), and […]
- Let’s visualize ’em
Since I’ve got to annotate and reorganize a large set of text data, I guess I willl have to visualize them too at some point. This part of the job is really exciting I must say. Somehow, i have a visual mind (whatever that means). So I had a look around to check hat’s around, […]
- Semantic Wikipedia: some issues
Just went to a talk by Denny Vrandecic, one of the people who developed the Semantic MediaWiki. A little description: Within only a few years, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia has become one of the most important online knowledge sources. The project “Semantic MediaWiki” engages in the conception and development of semantic extensions of MediaWiki – […]
- Howar Gardner’s talk
Just went to Howar Gardner‘s talk at the OU. He’s the one mostly famous for the theory of multiple intelligences. Don’t think he’s the only one claiming such things, but reading through the wikipedia article I kind of gathered the existence of some experimental evidence behind these ideas. It says: An intelligence, he feels, is […]
- Navigating the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a very nice venue, and its paintings even better. You can have a detailed look at them, thanks to the beautiful website that also features an interesting navigation facility. Just click on “explore the collection “: Texts, photos, video and animation provide information on the Rijksmuseum’s top exhibits. Links enable […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
