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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Electronic Books

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Electronic books have many advantages.  I can read them over the internet through my library’s website.  I can carry dozens of them in my backpack, with negligible effort.  They are cheap or free.
Sometimes though, they just suck.  Today I was trying to read a book through the library’s website, and it required me to install […]

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AAAI

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

I am in Chicago to present my work at AAAI 2008.  Chicago is larger than Philadelphia.  According to Wikipedia (which is sort of like saying, “according to my cousin’s three year old daughter), Philadelphia has half the population of Chicago.  Interestingly, Chicago’s rank in the list of world’s most populated cities is half that of […]

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