Nothing is impossible - or is it?

2009, July 2 - 01:16 — PatParslow

I tend to believe nothing is impossible.  Well, I say believe but it is more 'hope', really.  Richard H., colleague, friend and general loon, pointed out to me the other day that:

If nothing is impossible then
there is a finite possibility that something has a probability of 0, i.e. that something is impossible. 

Bother.  The fact that something can be impossible means that it is not true that nothing is impossible. 

Swine flu

2009, June 29 - 13:34 — PatParslow

A naive model of the swine flu infections (figures available at BBC news) in the UK shows the confirmed cases growing at an exponential rate (which is what you would expect). 

Swine flu naive model

 

testing video

2009, June 23 - 05:14 — PatParslow
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Folksonomist

2009, June 2 - 09:01 — PatParslow

In a tweet, Steve Wheeler (aka @timbuckteeth) refers to a Folksonomist as being "One who organises information in ways that make sense to his/her own community of practice or interest."

Problem with sound through Media Player on XP and resolution

2009, May 31 - 02:27 — PatParslow

My machine developed an interesting 'issue' a little while ago.  For some reason, it decided I didn't want to hear anything I tried playing in Windows Media Player - other apps would play OK.  I am not sure what caused it, but I did find a way to get the sound back in WMP today.
Yesterday I was looking at the Audio control panel - and I noticed that if I went into the (so-called) advanced settings, that it was showing the mute-all button was selected.  Now, that sounds like a simple user error, right?  But it wasn't.

LinkSphere

2009, May 28 - 18:19 — PatParslow

Platform

We (I) have pretty much decided to use Drupal as the platform for our Virtual Research Environment. The number of excellent plugins for it mean that making a feature rich social networking site should be relatively easy. I have some concerns about the differing rates of upgrades, and I am also aware that politically within the institution there is a tendency to prefer 'paid for' software – but the power and flexibility of the system is hard to argue with, in my opinion.

Testing writing to Drupal from Word

2009, May 26 - 11:37 — PatParslow

This is just a very dull and boring test post – sorry!

Evaluate frameworks

2009, May 23 - 06:53 — PatParslow

As per http://brains.parslow.net/node/1518 - evaluate benefits and risks with the frameworks

Identify candidate solutions

2009, May 23 - 06:51 — PatParslow

For example,
Opengoo for project management and collaboration
lovdbyless for social network
drupal as a combined social network, CMS, collaboration, blog and project management solution

LinkSphere

2009, May 23 - 06:41 — PatParslow

The social networking side of the LinkSphere project for the University of Reading. 

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