Perceptual image and audio deduplication
Okay, two months without a post, won’t happen again… So, lately I’ve been moving out from the broadcast area and getting back into webapp development, but some of the things I’ve been working on touch quite heavily on deduplication, of images and music. This is quite an interesting topic, so let’s have a look at [...]
IRIS – The Interchangeable Radio Ingest System
Well, wow. After nearly forgetting to actually submit it and only writing the entry a few hours before the deadline, it turns out that the system I made while at Insanity Radio 1287AM has been nominated for the Best Technical Achievement award at the Student Radio Awards. So, I figured it would be worth actually [...]
The surprising thing about BlackBerry outages
The surprising thing, to me at the least, whenever there’s a huge story all over the technology pages of the BBC or the Guardian about the BlackBerry Messenger/email services being down for huge periods of time, is that people are surprised at this. The internet has flourished and works so very well because it is [...]