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The Google Web Authoring Statistics site provides real insight into the way web developers are using the web. Of particular interest to me was the most commonly used elements page. The graphs on this site use SVG, although interestingly there is no comparison of image types people are using in their webpages. Anyway you’ll need [...]

I was very excited to find out that Python scripts can access Java APIs if you run on them Jython interpreter. Jython is a Python interpretor written in Java which some people have put to good use for fast prototyping of WEKA applications. I built a simple classifier using Jython and weka classes and everything [...]

Each week, Google provides a taste of the top search queries, a site called Google Zeitgeist. At the end of each year, they compile a more comprehensive report of what people have been searching for. The 2005 Zeitgeist has been out since December and provides some interesting insights into online trends over past year. My [...]

I’ve known PHP and Perl for some time now, so I decided it was time to learn the other ‘P’ in scripting: Python! There is a lot of documentation on the Python website, but I would recommend two books available freely online to get started, Dive into Python and A Byte of Python.

I previously blogged about advertisers going troppo for The Million Dollar Homepage. Well, online advertising is hot all over the net and is gaining on all traditional mediums fast. Australian Internet advert spending was AUD$620 Million last year, and will be AUD$1 Billion by the end of the year. Interestingly Internet advertising only accounts for [...]

A new service has just launched in the U.S. that allows people to quickly and easily get a estimate of the value of any house in the country. Taking in moutains of data the website predicts the value based on tax record and historical data. While not a official valuation, it is a free service [...]

Here’s an interesting read. Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists takes a look at just how much information we can extract from publicly available data such as Amazon.com’s Wish List service. The wish list allows a user to bookmark items they would like either by coming back and purchase at a later date [...]

There is now a ext2 driver for Windows which allows you to use your Linux Ext2/3 partitions as if they were any other drive. This is especially handy for people who use dual boot Win/Linux setups and a huge improvement over the old explore2fs program as you can now write as well as read on [...]

These are strange times we live in. First Alex Tew, a student in the UK, started the Million Dollar Homepage with the aim of selling 1,000,000 pixels as advertising space for $1 ea, thereby making US$1,000,000. Now with $999,000 sold Alex has resorted to auctioning off the last 1000 pixels to the highest bidder on [...]

Since my initial investigations into the firmware best solution for the Linksys WRT54G, I have been testing DD-WRT. I think it is probably the best of both worlds: it has a great web-GUI, like the Linksys and Sveasoft firmwares, but also has the power and flexibility of comand line access and the ipkg package management [...]