Woohoo: Google maps UK!

Great news: proper alpha-transparency in PNG files. This must be one of the more annoying shortcomings in IE at the moment. CSS support is also being heavily worked on to make in more consistent. All good news for web designers, though how long until IE7 becomes a viable target platform is anybody’s guess…

I haven’t been writing much recently because my thesis is using up most of my writing-energy. It is coming on well at the moment. Around a month left to finish it — not too long to go. After that I’ve finished university! Crazy to think that I’ll be moving into the world of work and out of learning. Exciting times ahead…

If you’d like to be involved in testing Feedfunk — my university project of an intelligent feed reader — send me an email. Ideally I want around five to ten testers. I’m aiming to get a package together for the end of next week.

I’m hoping to get basic classification going before releasing the test version, but I’m not sure how much work that is going to be. Anyway, you know you want to get involved =)

I’ve spent a couple of weeks reading about various methods for document classification, keyword recognition and other methods of automatically working out what documents are about. It seems that my initial idea was over-ambitious. I had intended to take groups of weblog posts and work out what each was about and then present the user with a list of the topics found. This would mean that they could choose the topics that interested them rather than having to read all the posts to find the interesting ones.

I sent a girl a text message; these are the times when you learn what the phrase a watched pot never boils really means.

update : true to form, a reply comes when I’m eating lunch in the other room!