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Markov chain available for NumCalc

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:38:28 -0400

NumCalc is my personal numerical methods program where I’ve implemented some nice algorithms for numerical computation. The new in the list is Markov Chain. The Wikipedia article (link above) is far too complex… I’ll try to give a
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Legoland June 2008

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:25:19 -0400

Since our first visit to Legoland, we are planning to come back, specially because Filipe was just 4 months old that time and he couldn't enjoy the trip properly. Enjoy the
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Legoland Windsor June 2008 - Duplo Train

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:55:27 -0400

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I Can Has Cheezburger

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:55:00 -0400

Vote for my sister's picture at I Can Has Cheezburger Just click at the picture...see more crazy cat pics
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Dad's new toy

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:00:58 -0400

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Big Head

Fri, 30 May 2008 18:02:23 -0400

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Woburn Safari Park

Sat, 24 May 2008 16:49:56 -0400

Today we went to a safari: http://www.woburnsafari.co.uk/ Lovely place... and, as always, I forgot my camera's batteries, so, I just have a few pictures... I hope you
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Giant slide

Sat, 24 May 2008 16:46:46 -0400

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Internet - WWW

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:25:52 -0400

Today I did a research using ebookers and easyjet to find a flight, an accommodation and a car in Venice for August. I booked everything without even one phone call, using paypal and online transactions and discussed everything with house's owner
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The dark side of freedom

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:37:45 -0400

Recently I posted about Stallman and Copyright, and how his beautiful ideas about how artists could make a living. Not every one think the same way, though… Terry McBride, a somewhat famous music manager is also spreading the world about the e
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Friends, Cats, Filipe and Andre

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:36:16 -0400

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Rapeseed Fields, Cambridgeshire, UK

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:29:46 -0400

and it has a wonderful
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Numerical methods package in C++

Fri, 9 May 2008 22:02:42 -0400

I still code in my spare time and for a while I’ve been gathering some numerical methods I did at university in an easy-to-understand generic C++ package. Despite being easy to understand, I also tried to implement the best method I knew for ea
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Book: Flat and Curved Space Times

Thu, 8 May 2008 13:19:05 -0400

The first time I read this book was during my special relativity course at university. I couldn’t understand a thing the teacher was saying (probably because his explanations were always: “you won’t be able to understand that”
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Cherry Hinton Hall - Bank Holiday - 5th May 2008

Mon, 5 May 2008 20:29:33 -0400

Just a little visit to the
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systemcall dot org » Stallman and Copyright

Thu, 1 May 2008 10:57:21 -0400

Richard Stallman and his proposed copyright
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Stallman and Copyright

Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:20 -0400

Yesterday I went to Stallman’s talk at Cambridge University where he proposed a new copyright scheme. Here is the transcript of the same talk elsewhere, not the same text but the same ideas. Below is a mix of what he said and my thoughts on the
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Silly projects of the week

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:03:57 -0400

Last week I did two silly but still quite funny projects: word search on protein sequences and chat bot using markov chains. Word search Searching for similar sequences among the known proteins to understand evolutionary paths and function similariti
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Bishop Carl Cooper Resigns

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:58:00 -0400

Ah, so all things have worked together to ensure that the bishop's position is untenable...Church in Wales website and BBC - Bishop resigns. Well, I've had some jip for daring to have, much more express an opinion on this, but I shall continue to
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Another bent thing and more damning evidence

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:54:00 -0400

If the evidence we have published so far may have presented “an ostensibly compelling case”, to use Mr Jim Fitzpatrick’s expression from a recent letter, the evidence we will be publishing from now on should provide the Minister for Transport w
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Six stages in the life of a New Labour politician

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:02:00 -0400

The first stage is, if we may call it so, the virginal stage - that is the season of grand promises, populist overtures and effusion. (In the FV Gaul inquiry saga, this would be the time when the families of the Gaul crew were promised a thorough and
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Exeter

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:22:00 -0400

I've been to Exeter today, and visited the Cathedral, outside which stands 'the only outdoor statue of Richard Hooker in the world' - this according to the Cathedral's website, which has a photograph of the statue taken before whichever committee it
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What happened to petticoats? Bring back the modesty screen.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:17:00 -0400

Whilst on the subject of dolls, the BBC currently has this photo in its Week in Pictures web gallery... ...which reminded me, that whilst browsing the Pope on Getty Images last week, I spotted the said Holy Father having what I can only d
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'There is nothing wrong with Jimmy Osmond'

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:48:00 -0400

Heh! Aw, he was so cute. The videos keep hanging - probably just weekend YouTube traffic but don't bother if it's going to frustrate you. :-)
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Radio GaGa

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:48:00 -0400

Tranny's comment in my previous Hitler doll post sparked my curiosity and led to the discovery that there are, thankfully, no 'Pinball Wizard' Elton John dolls to be found anywhere in cyberspace, though I did turn up an Elton 'Crocodile Rock' doll...
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Hitler for Youth? (Adolf Hitler Dolls)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:24:00 -0400

I could hardly believe what I was seeing, but more reading, in the Daily Mail just now: 'The Adolf Hitler Doll which comes with a change of clothes and a spare head with a kind face'.... '...According to the saleswoman, should the demand be high, ma
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Little Boxes...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:37:00 -0400

Yesterday saw the arrival of our 'blue box', nestled inside which was a grey box and a roll of starch bags. This is for the collection of all our waste food, though it can also be used for garden waste and cardboard. We love WormTech in Monmouthshir
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Policia Judiciaria react to Clarence Mitchell

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:03:00 -0400

Sky News now - Portuguese police have hit back at Kate and Gerry McCann - denying claims they leaked information about their daughter's disappearance. The war of words intensified as detectives said allegations they had passed information to the medi
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Clarence on much better form...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:09:00 -0400

He's being calm and coherent today, like a real spokesperson.... Sky news - Secret McCann files may be released. ...The McCanns' spokesman added: "Rebelo will report back on the interviews that took place last week, and they will then decide on whet
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Nine people or seven without watches or phones....

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:25:00 -0400

Just a note to add another quote from Clarence Mitchell, this time from The Guardian, regarding the lack of watches and mobile phones in the Tapas bar on May 3rd, as I've just noticed that in my previous post the Sky quote only mentions seven of the
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McCann Thoughts...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:55:00 -0400

The UK media showed surprisingly little interest in the visit to Britain by Portuguese detectives last week (edit - earlier this week, actually). They flew in on Monday, this time for the purpose of listening to the McCann’s friends as they were
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Pro CD Ripping Service in UK

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:01:06 -0400

It must be over a year since I came across riptopia, a USA service that takes your cd's and sends back all the songs ready for importing in to iTunes for use on your iPod. I wrote back then that I'd be interested in a UK company that offered a s
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Data Recovery - Your data is in Danger

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:14:57 -0400

Data Recovery Every computer has storage files devices. These devices can be: Hard drives, notebook’s hard drive, CDs, DVDs, diskettes, Zip drive, memory card, pen drives, etc. In these devices you can find the operational system e all information
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My Personal da Vinci

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:39:30 -0400

Yes... I have the new da Vinci at home... also known as Andre...
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Why not the primary key?

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:12:50 -0400

Recently I came to an amusing situation with Oracle (again) where the primary key was not used when explicitly requested… The query was: select name from table where table_id = 1; Of course, table_id was the primary key. Astonishingly Oracle
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Question: Who wil be tired First?

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:12:56 -0400

Answer:
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The man and the boy

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:01:14 -0400

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Bretagne 2008 - Morlaix Bay

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:25:57 -0400

Fog, Low water and us at Morlay Bay!
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Traveler IQ game

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:40:46 -0400

The web's original Travel Blog.
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Camfed - Where the Water Meets the Sky

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:11:39 -0400

In a remote region of northeastern Zambia, 23 women who have never before been exposed to technology learn how to produce their own film in order to break the silence in their community around issues that no one else dare discuss. In finding the cour
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Camfed | Where the Water Meets the Sky | Home

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:11:39 -0400

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Bretagne 2008 - Les jardins de Suscinio

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:06:20 -0400

Botanic Garden in Morlaix... And some coloring pictures
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Bretagne 2008 - Roscoff and Ile de Batz

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:31:38 -0400

We also visited Roscoff and Ile de Batz. Andre was impressed with the difference between low and high
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Bretagne 2008 - Saint Pol de Leon

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:55:11 -0400

St-Pol-de-Leon is famous for its 13th century cathedral on the site of the original founded by Saint Paul Aurelian in the 6th century. St-Pol-de-Leon is 15km northwest of Morlaix and its big attractions are the religious buildings - most notably the
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Children's Bible in a Nutshell

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:01:34 -0400

A child was told to write a book report on the entire Bible. I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what teachers are teaching in religious classes? ----- In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was noth
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Bretagne 2008 - Brest

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:14:28 -0400

We also visited Brest and its Oceanopolis
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Proud Mum

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:28:00 -0400

Last month, Andre and another boy from his school wrote a letter to a local journal, to participate in a Barclays Award.They wrote about their sport activities at their school and why their school should win that award.And guess what? They won!Here y
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Oscar Nominated Movie OPERATION HOMECOMING now on iTunes

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:00:57 -0400

A chap named Jason from newvideo.com suggested that you... well... you can read for yourself... I thought you and your site's readers would like to know that the Oscar nominated film OPERATION HOMECOMING is now available on iTunes via the link image
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gzip madness

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:54:33 -0400

Another normal day here at EBI when I change a variable called GZIP from local to global (via export on Bash) and I got a very nice surprise: all my gzipped files have gzip itself as a header!!! Let me explain… I have a makefile that, among ot
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Bretagne 2008 - Morlaix

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:57:39 -0400

Our next stop was Morlaix, where my mother in law Cybele and her husband Jean Pierre live. Morlaix is instantly recognisable by the towering, 19th century viaduct that spans the valley where the town lies. An estuary port, Morlaix prospered from p
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