This signature is at the bottom of every email from a company I’m in contact with at work, emphasis mine:
This e-mail may be confidential and privileged. Do not open it if you are in any doubt that you are the intended recipient. You must scan this e-mail and any attachments for the presence [...]
I’ve been playing about with Django and Last.fm data, intended as an eventual upgrade to historical charts. It’s fun .. I now know I play most music in March and November (university deadline time!), that my top three artists of 2010 so far are Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and The Delgados, and that my [...]
Noticed National Rail has a ‘virtual assistant‘, sceptically wondered how bad it could be:
Rejected by a natural language processor! That’ll teach me for being sceptical.
Exams are over, the sun came and went, I got a first (hurrah!), a job for a couple of months and now it’s just .. working out what now? Completing Chrono Trigger is my first priority :D
Spent some time moving the last.fm charts thing to Python, because Python is tasty, PHP is clumsy, and matplotlib [...]
Just a note to say I updated Historical Charts to take advantage of Last.fm automatically correcting misspelled info.
Take a look at the URLs used to make the charts at the bottom of this page.
ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsof
treesandabluetruedreamofskyandforeverythingwhichisnatural
whichisinfinitewhichisyesithankYouGodformostthisamazingday
fortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetruedreamofskyand
foreverythingwhichisnaturalwhichisinfinitewhichisyeseecummings
It’d be even cooler if the chart was at all attractive..
Forever ago, in the glory-days of Napster and Kazaa, I discovered Radiohead (hurrah!) and amidst the 28.8kb/s hunt for b-sides and rarities on other people’s computers found myself in possession of a song called Cogs. It was a weird and haunting song that seemed to fit right into the Kid A/Amnesiac theme but didn’t [...]