-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- January 2012
- July 2011
- June 2011
- February 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- August 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: mfagan
Waste Nothing
Long time no blog, I know. Some time ago I put Quizify on hold to work on a new project. I like Quizify, but I wanted to do something more important, something that can make a difference to the environment. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off
Entity Extraction APIs, once again
It has been about a year and a half since my Comparing NLP APIs for Entity Extraction post, which continues to be quite popular. I immediately started writing a followup, and naturally never finished or published it. Since I’ve been getting … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Simplified fabrication | Mez Dispenser
Simplified fabrication | Mez Dispenser. – things have changed since earlier today when I told myself to blog this. Anyhow, Dave Meslin is a serious asset to Toronto. To summarize, he was surprised at a city statistic, arranged volunteers to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged biking, cycling, davemeslin, governmentdata, opengovernment, toronto, transparency
Comments Off
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They’re Right by Laura Penny | LibraryThing
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They’re Right by Laura Penny | LibraryThing is the most recent book I finished, and a thus a good time to get myself back into the habit … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged antiintellectualism, bookreview, laurapenny, moremoneythanbrains
Comments Off
Upgrading WordPress
I’m upgrading WordPress, and as my blog runs a heavily-customized version there may be some downtime and probably at least a temporary loss of (the display of) some data, including tags. Hopefully I’ll have things back up and running in … Continue reading
Comments Off
Maybe I can Help You?
I’m going to make myself available over the next little while for consulting and contract work. I should probably write up a good list of the sort of thing I’m interested in, but until then, if you have any ideas … Continue reading
Comments Off
Contact Management getting more exciting
I started writing this post some (six?) months ago, and then forgot about it. I got the email that etacts was shutting down and then saw that it was being purchased by Salesforce so figured I might as well just … Continue reading
Tagged contacts, digsby, etacts, gis, logconverter, petewarden, rapleaf, rapportive, silentale
Comments Off
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil by Richard Gilbert | LibraryThing
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil by Richard Gilbert | LibraryThing – overall, this is an excellent book, and one can’t but help be persuaded by the core thesis: that oil is peaking about right now, that transportation … Continue reading
Tagged environment, oil, transportation
Comments Off
Bloom laptop designed with e-recycling in mind – Core77
Bloom laptop designed with e-recycling in mind – Core77 – this seems fantastic, from the perspective of assembly time (and thus cost), repair, and recycling, not to mention flexibility and ergonomics. I wonder if there’s any chance of the concepts … Continue reading