Spent most of my day learning the intricate workings of the
href="http://www.gsmworld.com/index.shtml">GSM protocol. One
thing on my mind at this point: How in the freaking hell do mobile
phones work at all.
Didn’t anyone explain the KISS concept to GSM engineers. Now I
understand why the first mobile phones resembled backpacks.
href="http://www.unix-girl.com/blog/archives/000850.html">Adaptable
google? Kasia has an entry on her blog about Dave Winer’s idea
of an adaptive page rank for google. But what I really found
interesting was the comment posted by
I like the idea of a “personalized” Google. It should
be fairly easy, since Google is already setting a unique cookie for
you. Beyond this idea, I like the idea of clustering groups of
similar matches for a search term. For instance, let’s say a doctor
and a guitar builder both search for “neck”. The first time, both
will get results from everything containing “neck”. The doctor will
click on a link talking about the human neck anatomy, and the
guitar builder will click on a link dealing with how to straighten
a crooked guitar neck.Now, the next time the guitar builder searches for “neck”, it will
remember that he chose from the guitar neck cluster, and give those
hits increased priority (with a mention that it had been done, and
a toggle to remove the filter).Almost every search term has multiple meanings, and it’d be fairly
easy to cluster them. Currently, a guitarist or a guitar builder
searching for “neck” will 99% of the time click on a page in this
cluster. They’ll also search for things like “fret”, “bridge”,
“strings”, etc - so these terms can be used to add weight to a
given cluster.
Now, this could be the next search engine revolution!
href="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/03/23/do2305.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/03/23/ixop.html">
I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam: A nice
inside view on the feelings of the Iraqi people.
Of course I had read reports that Iraqis hated Saddam
Hussein, but this was the real thing. Someone had explained it to
me face to face. I told a few journalists who I knew. They said
that this sort of thing often happened - spontaneous, emotional,
and secretive outbursts imploring visitors to free them from
Saddam’s tyrannical Iraq.
