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Possibly cooler than Photosynth

Yes.

Now my little stick figure drawings can actually look decent.

This is possibly the coolest thing ever.

Researchers have come up with a way of taking your stick figure drawings (and keywords), and using them to find actual images that match. Then compositing them to create the complete image you were thinking of.

From Crunchgear

I feel better now

I’m not sure about you, but I’m glad that someone has taken the time to do this research.

I link you to a paper titled, “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical  Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection” by Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad et al.

Thanks guys, I believe this paper is a step in the right direction. The better we understand our enemy, the more prepared we are to protect the world from the impending Zombie Apocalypse

(Thanks Dave for sending me the link to the paper)

Numb

Its my on-call week, and its been a killer so far.

At the moment, I’ve got a guy on-site transferring a new IOS image to a Cisco Router (which is long looong past its End of Life date), over a Serial cable with XModem. This is going to take a while (its 1am).

Last night, I was up from 00:30 until 03:00 trying to figure out why a router dropped off the network. Only to be told this morning that it was due to planned works being carried out by a 3rd-party. Oops, we forgot to tell you.

So, I’m cranky, sleep deprived, and can barely focus on my screen. But thats fine, I’m only oncall until Friday.

The door appears to be locked

Observations from my desk, near the door.

I often wonder what goes through some of these people’s minds as they slowly figure out that, the door is infact, locked.

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Keyboard Pants

Yes.

Keyboard pants.

I know… what a brilliant idea. I’m annoyed that I didn’t think of this myself.

I have a roll-up keyboard, and its new destiny is to become part of some form of clothing…

Julius gets a new home

So after the Julius/Nandos Farce, the puppet has found a new home.

No, the plastic puppet, that was used in the Nandos advert.

South Africa goes to Vote

Its voting day in South Africa, so hopefully all of the 23m registered voters will be out enjoying the public holiday in the open air.

And then they’ll all be heading to Wimpy for their free coffee

And those of you with a sense of humour, will read Hayibo’s Election News, and giggle to yourselves at the new Nandos advert. (Those without a sense of humour will be offended, and try to sue Nandos. Or take Militant action, whatever floats your gravy boat)

RTE Player open to the Public

RTE have opened their online catch-up service to the public today.

They call it the RTE Player.

I’ve been playing around with this for a few days now. (Thanks RTE for giving me a beta account!)

Its very impressive actually. Quality is great, and I haven’t found a single bug yet. It just works.

Old Hardware swan-song

As weird as it may sound, I have all the time in the world for people with too much free time.

And this man, clearly had too much free time when he came up with this.

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Truth hurts

The ex-Minister of Telecommunications in South Africa died last week.

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, better known as Poison Ivy, was the topic of a few of my rants in the past.

She was really good at stuffing things up, and then starting legal procedures against anyone who tried to fix it. I think she’s the first true example of the “If it aint fixed, don’t fix it, sleep instead” mindset.

Government released their own tribute to her, which ignores all her failings.

So it was left to some more objective people to come up with a fitting tribute.

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