I know I’ve been quite quiet the last few weeks. Since the last time that I wrote anything here I’ve gotten a new job and have been doing my thing for the last few weeks. I’m currently in the UK at a customer site attempting to work on some software that they sort of have requested of us but unfortunately they didn’t appear to be quite ready for us so it seems that there is the possibility that we are going to call this trip a bit of a wash and head back stateside early. Tis the nature of business I guess. Well it’s quite late where I am. It’s only about a quarter to 9 on the east coast and I should have gone to bed hours ago. I’ll try and keep this more up to date. We’ll see though.

Cheers!

So, I was curious to see what would happen if I ran my name through Google. I’m sure a lot of people do this from time to time. It is kind of fun to see all the people who exist in the world with your name. There’s a famous soccer player in the U.K. named Stephen Caldwell. There are a number of other various people, such as doctors and company directors. This time however  I stumbled upon a video on YouTube that featured a documentary on a group called The Orlons. They were an R&B group out of Philadelphia. It was a quartet featuring three women and one man. His name…Stephen Caldwell. Admittedly the pronunciation is different, but it’s still interesting (at least for me it is).

I’m sure you are all floored by this. Don’t clamor too loudly.

This is just a little script that I banged together at the suggestion of some people in ##php on Freenode. The XKCD is a clever little geeky comic that I enjoy. It’s usual themes are math and science related with a few other things tossed in. Well an important part of the punchline of each comic is often placed in the title attribute of the comic’s <img> tag. This GreaseMonkey script displays the title directly under the image. It’s a lot better than trying to view source all the time (in Firefox anyway since it doesn’t show the entire contents of the title attribute in the tootip).

You can download it here: xkcdtitleunhider.user.js

• Awesome Song of the Moment: Psapp - Cosy in the Rocket

So, I watched Reign Over Me this past weekend. It’s quite an awesome movie. I suggest that everyone go out and watch the movie. It once again reaffirms how awesome Don Cheadle is and it shows that Adam Sandler can play a decent semi-serious character. Though, what I didn’t understand was how Cheadle’s character could have been written so as to not like Quadrophenia… I mean, it’s The Who. I don’t understand how anyone could not like The Who. It just doesn’t really make any sense to me.

Anyway, go and see Reign Over Me.

• Awesome Song of the Moment: The Who - Love Reign O'er Me

I’ve been so bogged down with school work the last few weeks. I’ve been working on my AI project a lot the last few days and that isn’t going quite as well as I had hoped. I had a number of midterms the last few weeks. Those had a few good and bad moments. We’re entering in the last few weeks of class. The last day of classes is April 18th, which is a little more than 4 weeks from today. I’m still looking for post graduate work. It’s been slow going because I’ve been focusing more on school work at the moment.

In other news, I saw 300 last week. That’s a fun movie.

Persian Emissary: A thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!

Stelios: [smiles] Then we will fight in the shade.

So, for my Artificial Intelligence class that I am taking this semester, we are required to present a project on some artificial intelligence related topic. I decided that I was going to take a crack at Reinforcement Learning. I’m still at the beginning stages of my project, but once I get some more details I’ll post about it.

• Awesome Song of the Moment: Depeche Mode - John the Revelator

After entirely too long I am finally getting started on my job search. I’m trying to figure out how to go about writing a decent cover letter. I’ve written maybe one cover letter, ever, and I don’t think I actually used it at the time. It was mostly to get a little practice. It was such a long time ago that I wrote one that I now feel that I am essentially back at square one with no idea what I need to write. I’ve found a few web resources and my university has a few resources of their own so between those hopefully everything will turn out well. Here’s wishing me luck.

• Awesome Song of the Moment: John Legend - P.D.A (We just don't care)

It’s great art like this that makes me enjoy the internet. The internet does occasionally have a few redeeming factors.

Update:

It just keeps getting better. Apparently the cavemen from the Geico commercials have a little semi-viral website about them. I think it’s kind of cute in a cenozoic kind of way. You should check it out.

• Awesome Song of the Moment: Royksopp - Remind Me

It appears that there is a career fair at Northeastern on Wednesday. I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to wear. I won’t have any opportuntities to change on Wednesday so I’ll need something that is comfortable, but still appears professional and appropriate for the occasion. What to wear? What to wear?

So my friend Mike is in this cover band called Boston Common and they played their fairly weekly show at the Tap last night. It was the first time that I had the opportunity to check out Boston Common and I must say. They rock out…HARD. They played a lot of the hits and a number of classics and the audience absolutely loved them. Me and my pink shirt even got a shoutout during one song where Mike essentially freestyled because he didn’t really know the words. It’s now nearly 6 hours later and I still can’t completely hear in my right ear. T’was awesome. If you’ve got a moment you should definitely check them out. They have shows on Thursdays and Saturdays at a couple of bars near Quincy Market.

• Awesome Song of the Moment: Modest Mouse - Dashboard