Archive for May, 2006

Distributed manual verification of a corpus

John Graham-Cumming (of popfile, among other things), has setup a site for manual verification of the 2005 TREC Spam Track corpus.  The idea is that as many people as possible go to the site and manually classify the messages that are presented as ham or spam.
The TREC corpus was primarily classified automatically, so it's possible [...]

Continue reading »

Skype 2.5 (Beta)

I found out (via GeekBrief.tv) that a beta of Skype 2.5 is available, so downloaded it.  I use Skype quite a lot for text messaging (because MSN is so unreliable), as well as some SkypeOut calls (if the lag was a bit less, I would happily switch to it for all my outgoing calls, since [...]

Continue reading »

MySky Glitch

After about a month of working as well can be expected, a weird MySky glitch occured the day before yesterday. All of the scheduled programs (all done via series link) more than a day in the future vanished from the planner.
Unfortunately, I was later home yesterday than anticipated, so wasn't able to manually add [...]

Continue reading »