I'm reading a paper [Joachims, 1996] about text analysis.  The idea is to produce a facility within liveTopics for suggesting topics based upon the text entered in a post.  At the moment there is a simple facility based upon a word search for existing topics, I'm keen to improve upon that in the future.

Does anyone know of any good papers on this subject?

John Robb and Terry Frazier have both mentioned dynamic dns recently.  This is handy for people of dialup/cable modems as it allows them to keep a DNS entry even though their IP address changes from time to time.  I had a go with a company called TZO who offer the same service at a fairly low rate.  My Dad just mentioned DtDns to me & they offer this service free.

The only reason I didn't register was that I'm not sure Dynamic DNS will be of use when I buy a cable router.  It won't be able to run the dynamic DNS client and my own machine will be using NAT so the IP address won't be valid.

Anyone know of a way around that?

Hopefully today I've taken a positive step.  I posted in the license discussion at QuickTopic a draft of a license for liveTopics that covers personal use.  It won't be perfect, it may be too restrictive but it's there for you to comment on and I hope that you will.

I keep seeing the movie Groundhog Day.

In reruns.

Over and over.

I can't help it.

Every time I see it I learn something new.

And I am changed by it.

I hope to grow up enough to get out of this cycle.

And figure out what that means.

imdb.

Plumbing the Depths of Groundhog Day.

[aka life]

[a klog apart]

» I've always loved this movie and when I saw the IMDB link I wanted to go see what other people said about it.  I'm glad I did because I read this:

"The other thing I noticed, while reflecting on this movie, is how uncertainty can keep us from charitable acts. We use our ignorance like a crutch: we don't give to charity because it may be a scam, we don't offer to help someone because they may not need help anyway, and so on. But Phil doesn't have the luxury of ignorance. He knows...he knows with absolute certainty that if he doesn't buy the old man a bowl of soup, that man will die in the streets within a few hours. He knows that if he isn't on hand at the right time, a boy will fall from a tree and break his neck. Faced with such knowledge, even Phil, self-absorbed as he is, cannot stand by idly. Nor could we, in his position. This is a powerful argument for knowledge as the most reliable foundation for generous behavior. What other movie can offer an insight half so profound?"