Archive for 24 September 2007

Love your enemies

Posted: 24 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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My wife Donna found another great bumper sticker the other day and snapped the pic below: “When Jesus said ‘Love your enemies’, I think he probably meant don’t kill them.” That seems pretty clear to me.

If sea levels rise one meter, we could see a lot of stuff disappear beneath the waves, including Wall Street. Maybe then corporations and certain politicians would listen to reason. A bunch of historical landmarks would be affected as well, including Jamestown.

This past spring I worked on a morphological analyzer for Old English verbs. To my knowledge, this has never been done using finite state transducers. As part of my search to find the current state of the art for this language, I emailed Professor Richard Hogg at the University of Manchester. He wrote the section [...]

Gmail 2.0

Posted: 24 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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Rumors are running around about a possible upgrade to gmail. Garett Rogers at ZDNet started the rumor mill a few days ago when it was noticed that the gmail translation page wanted translations for the phrase “Newer Version.” Not exactly conclusive, but it’s long overdue so these rumors could actually pan out. Google Operating System [...]