Terry Jones

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Amants de Lulú

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted under barcelona, music. | 3 Comments »

I've not been blogging much recently, but that may change before long. Today I was having a nap and awoke to hear music on the street downstairs. I went down to ... Read more..

Keynote is good

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted under tech. | 2 Comments »

I've been playing with Keynote to make a presentation. There are a lot of things I don't really like about using a Mac, but Keynote is not one of them. It ... Read more..

Worst of the web award: Cheaptickets

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted under companies, me, tech. | 10 Comments »

Here's a great example of terrible (for me at least) UI design. I was just trying to change a ticket booking at Cheaptickets. Here's the interface for selecting what you want ... Read more..

How the democrats could blow it. Again.

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted under politics. | 2 Comments »

The race to be the US democratic nominee is pretty interesting. As has been pointed out though, it's going to come down to what the superdelegates decide to do. Here's ... Read more..

The power of representation: Adding powers of two

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted under representation, tech. | 5 Comments »

On the left is an addition problem. If you know the answer without thinking, you're probably a geek. Suppose you had to solve a large number of problems of this type; ... Read more..

Talking about Antigenic Cartography at ETech

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted under me, tech. | Comments Off on Talking about Antigenic Cartography at ETech

Blogs are all about self-promotion, right? Right. I'm talking at ETech in the first week of March in San Diego. The talk is at 2pm on Wednesday March 3, and is ... Read more..

Talking at TTI/Vanguard Smart(er) Data conference

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted under me, representation. | 6 Comments »

I've been invited to speak at a TTI/Vanguard conference in Atlanta on SMART(ER) DATA on Feb 20/21. Here's the abstract. Representation, Representation, Representation In this talk I will argue for the importance of ... Read more..

My twitter stats

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted under me, twitter. | Comments Off on My twitter stats

I seem to be done with Twitter, at least for now. The graphic shows my monthly usage graph (courtesy of tweetstats) - click for the full-sized image. I do find Twitter ... Read more..

Social Graph foo camp was a blast

Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted under companies, travel. | Comments Off on Social Graph foo camp was a blast

I spent last weekend at the Open Social Foo camp held on the O'Reilly campus in Sebastopol, CA. The camp was organized by David Recordon and Scott Kveton, with sponsorship ... Read more..

S3 numbers revisited: six orders of magnitude does matter

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted under companies. | 3 Comments »

OK.... I should have realized in my original posting that the Oct 2007 10,000,000,000,000 objects figure was the source of the problem. I knew S3 could not be doubling every ... Read more..

Google maps gets SFO location waaaay wrong

Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted under companies, tech. | 1 Comment »

Before leaving Barcelona yesterday morning, I checked Google maps to get driving directions from San Francisco International airport (SFO) to a friend's place in Oakland. Google got it way wrong. Imagine ... Read more..

Amazon S3 to rival the Big Bang?

Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted under companies, tech. | 4 Comments »

Note: this posting is based on an incorrect number from an Amazon slide. I've now re-done the revenue numbers. We've been playing around with Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). Adam Selipsky, ... Read more..

The Black Swan

Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted under books. | 4 Comments »

I got a copy of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable for xmas. In London a couple of weeks ago I pointed it out to Russell as we ... Read more..

Worst of the web award: MIT/Stanford Venture Lab

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted under tech. | 2 Comments »

I've just awarded one of my coveted Worst of the Web awards to the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. Here's why. They are hosting a video I'd like to watch. You can see ... Read more..

Final straws for Mac OS X

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted under companies, tech. | 14 Comments »

I've had it with Mac OS X. I'm going to install Linux on my MacBook Pro laptop in March once I'm back from ETech. I've been thinking about this for months. There ... Read more..

Understanding high-dimensional spaces

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted under other, tech. | 10 Comments »

I've spent lots of time thinking about high-dimensional spaces, usually in the context of optimization problems. Many difficult problems that we face today can be phrased as problems of navigating ... Read more..

Giselle is served an apple martini, but she doesn’t drink it

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted under other. | 2 Comments »

Well that's a relief. Read more..

One email a day

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted under me, tech. | Comments Off on One email a day

I've got my email inbox locked down so tightly that only one email made it through today. That's down from several hundred a day just a few weeks ago. All the ... Read more..

Free wifi at Stansted

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Free wifi at Stansted

I'm at Stansted heading back to Barcelona. There's free wifi here (on the merula network in the waiting area for gates 1-19), for the first time I've seen it. At ... Read more..

Wifi on a bus

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Wifi on a bus

I'm on the X90 National Express bus from Oxford to London. At the bus stop before we left I pulled out my laptop to do some work on a presentation. ... Read more..