Anna discovers EndNote

Good grief! Anna has only left the building for a matter of days and already she has gone over to the Dark Side!

http://anna.gerber.id.au/2005/02/16#EndNote

While she might be busily redefining emacs macros, I can see it is only a matter of time before she'll be a covert to Notepad as her text editor of choice.

UQ library strikes again

Despite the years of promises to fix the problem, the UQ library yet again stuffs up DSTC staff. Even though they know that they provide library services to a larger community than UQ students and UQ staff members, they persist with this assumption in their database and thus DSTC staff (and doubtless others) get unceremoniously dumped by the library system every year.

I can understand why the problem happens, but what I can't stomach is the continual promises that it will be fixed next year when evidently they have no intention of doing so.

Kerry

Predicting the future of computing

Laurie Tratt has a meta-discussion about predicting the future of computing and grand visions etc:

http://tratt.net/laurie/bliki/entries/predicting_the_future_of_computing

However, in analysing why he can't predict the future, I think he inadvertantly stumbles on what I might consider a Grand Vision for computing.

Something that can read natural language to cope with the information overload and give me the digested version when I need it (the just-in-time knowledge problem). People seem to be able to be able to do it, why not computers?

Well, some people seem to be able to do it anyway.

Kerry