Category Archives: Internet

Wireshark – Resources

Posted on January 14, 2023 by bat

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. I have found it useful for debugging UDP packet exchange issues between OpenSimulator and the Firestorm Virtual World Viewer. This blog posts provides links and resources in case its useful in future or for … Continue reading →

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Mastodon Microblogging

Posted on November 5, 2022 by bat

Mastodon is a micro blogging social network similar to Twitter. But it is based on open source code and a distributed network of servers. You find a suitable server to register an account on and have a handle such as … Continue reading →

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Virtual Conferences – A Guide to Best Practices

Posted on April 11, 2020 by bat

https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences A community resource from the ACM Presidential Task Force on What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face-to-Face Meetings – Version 1.1(rc) of April 11, 2020 [Current version] [Local Copy] Discussion Forum (free account registration required): https://virtualconf.acm.org/

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Internet Shopping circa 1995 – Comments to the Press

Posted on October 15, 2018 by bat

I was amused to come across a press clipping of a 1995 article in the Edinburgh Evening News (“Keying in a spot of lunch” by Lindsay Reid, Evening News, 29th April 1995) in which I am quoted with several comments … Continue reading →

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WordPress Blog Export and Import

Posted on October 9, 2018 by bat

I have been experimenting with export and reimport of WordPress blog posts and media content. If the Dashboard -> Tools -> Export (or under Dashboard -> Settings -> Export) was used to export “All” content and then the new destination … Continue reading →

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openvce.net on web.archive.org

Posted on January 31, 2018 by bat

The OpenVCE.net (http://openvce.net) web site used Drupal for its content.  The underlying data base was turned off for security in 2017. The site now just has a number of key links active, such as the download and resources pages. Some pages … Continue reading →

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Voice Activated Intelligent Personal Assistants

Posted on September 28, 2016 by bat

On 28th September 2016 the Amazon Echo voice-activated cloud-based intelligent personal assistant device named “Alexa” was introduced in the UK, having been available in the US since 6th November 2014 (see Wikipedia article). This blog post collects resources and links … Continue reading →

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Web We Want – The Day We Fight Back

Posted on February 10, 2014 by bat

I am the Director of AIAI which is part of the University of Edinburgh and grew out of the Artificial Intelligence Department at Edinburgh. In the early 19790 we hosted a DEC-10 mainframe for UK AI research as one of … Continue reading →

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Personal Profiles

Posted on November 4, 2011 by bat

My interest in personal portable information stores and information predates my use of the approach as a PLE. I am interested in a computer-based personal assistant and ways in which that could build information to help you throughout your life. … Continue reading →

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TANIA – Task Achieving Network-aware Information Agents

Posted on February 27, 1995 by bat

TANIA is a project originally proposed in 1995 by Austin Tate to a number of telecommunications companies and internet service providers. It focussed on task achieving internet agents where at the time the major focus on the World Wide Web … Continue reading →

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