The Devil Wears Prada

The DVD I got was ruined -doesn't show anything but a blank screen after you hit the play button. A shame, but I got a thorough review at the Movie Spoiler. Check it out for this and other movies. Those who don't want to be told how a movie ends, be aware, the Movie Spoiler is not your site ;-)

Here's the link:
The Devil Wears Prada

Beyond politics....

A great woman lost her life yesterday...
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. RIP.

What do GATE, YALE and WEKA have in common?

Other than being some of the most popular Java-based text mining systems, that is...

anyone saw Mars?

Mars was supposed to be bright red in the sky next to a full Moon on Xmas Eve.
According to Yahoo News "Mars [was] unusually bright [on] Christmas Eve [...] — a development that might make Santa Claus rethink his need for Rudolph's red nose."
Of course the skies were overcast locally so I missed Mars. The Full Moon was brilliant though! ;-)

Merry Xmas!

Holidays is what we make of them!
Enjoy!

ACL 2008

ACL-08: HLT will be held in Columbus, Ohio. Deadline for paper submissions is Jan 10, 2008.
Notice that Information Extraction makes for a separate subfield/umbrella of topics acceptable for submission.

Snowbound...

Crazy weather in the state of Ohio and most of the East Coast for the last few weeks and it isn't looking up any time soon. Apparently, according to the Weather Channel, apart from snow, we're also looking at Graupel, i.e. "a form of frozen precipitation consisting of snowflakes or ice crystals and super cooled water droplets frozen together", not to be confused with "icicles". All I know is that the temperature is down to 23oF/-5oC and feels much lower and lower by the hour.

Hello, World!

Let there be light!