Douwe Osinga's Blog: March 2004

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Open Source and the Third World

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh of Electric Dreams fame, wrote an interesting article about License Fees and GDP per capital. He expressed the cost of...

Friday, March 26, 2004

The Future of Searching

A number of emails from  different people got me thinking about the future of search. The Third Era of Searching, opened by Google, is dra...

Monday, March 22, 2004

Some new stuff

I was cleaning up some code; I'm writing a piece for the upcoming mapping hacks of O'Reilly. Anyway, in the process I created a stan...

Thursday, March 18, 2004

The European Free State Project

In the United States, the land of the free, a group of libertarians has decided that there is no such thing as too much freedom.  TheyĆ¢€™ve...

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

New project: Poetry in Translation

There was this story about one of the first translation programs that translated from and to russian. After a return trip, the sentence '...

Monday, March 15, 2004

Back from the USSR

Back from Armenia and Georgia. All in all a very interesting week with lots of sights, activities feeling like real adventure and of course ...

Saturday, March 6, 2004

Georgia on my mind

So I'm in Georgia. No left lugage and no sleep made for a day of hard work in Tbilisi with walking around and taking in the sites, finis...

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

There are not many reasons to blog 4:54 in the morning. Being featured on abc is one. I just got off the telephone from an interview with t...

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Memory Systems

Wired has a piece about the American Championship remembering stuff. People compete in things like is remembering the order of a stack of ...