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	<title>Portent &#187; computing</title>
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		<title>Wide Screen Wallpapers</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/wide-screen-wallpapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dual and even triple screen computers are fairly common place now and single screen wall papers just don&#8217;t cut the mustard. On Flickr.com, you can find a very nice selection of wide screen images, including the one pictured above at 5128 x 1604. I suspect you may need to be a paid up member (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jester- Picking Jokes to Suit You</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/jester-picking-jokes-to-suit-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/23/jester-picking-jokes-to-suit-you/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. A research project to try and work out jokes that match your sense of humour. As they say &#8220;Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.&#8221; Of course I&#8217;m not sure quite how they classify humour or rate a joke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutating Pictures &#8211; Visual Genetic Algorithm?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/02/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something a little different. You are shown image after image and have to rate them for life likeness, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 10 is most like a face like and 0 isn&#8217;t anything like a face. I suspect this is some variation of a genetic algorithm. This is a way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloth Simulation</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/cloth-simulation/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/cloth-simulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the portent story about a programming language for artists and designers called processing? This uses that and a 3rd party library to create a simulation of cloth physics and how it behaves when you pull it etc. It is very well done- just grab a point in the cloth, pull and release. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Computers?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-future-of-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/the-future-of-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaborative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has got used to the PC&#39;s desktop metaphor- dragging Windows around, opening applications etc. Films like Minority report and the Dixon&#39;s Advert with a woman operating a virtual screen show one possible way forward. But what if the computer was part of a 3d network in which you could interact with other? No, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Flash!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/happy-birthday-flash/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/happy-birthday-flash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Macromedia, now Adobe Flash is now ten years old. Almost as old as the Web itself. Flash is one of those technologies that has shaped our Web experience, from animated adverts through games and an era of skippable (and sometimes non skippable) website intros. Adobe have recognised the impact that Flash has had and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filigrams &#8211; Computer Generated Art</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/filigrams-computer-generated-art/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/filigrams-computer-generated-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The image pictured is called a Filigram and was invented by programmer Simon Tatham. He was playing around with code trying to come up something vaguely fractal and came up with this. There are several examples on the page and if you know which end of a C compiler you pour the code in, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Cool! A Programmable Fan with 42 LEDs</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mechanical]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/10/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The links go to a youtube video of the fan in action. Unless it was a fridge I doubt you&#8217;d find anything er cooler! There are 42 LEDs and through careful timing, you can program all sorts of animated graphical effects. I suspect that you need to be half decent at programming it- it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fancy a Chumby?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/fancy-a-chumby/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/fancy-a-chumby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[console]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/14/fancy-a-chumby/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the prevalence of Wifi, and cheap programmable devices, Chumby comes out very soon. It reminds me a little of a Gp2X though that was a games console and Chumby is different. A Chumby is an always connected (if you have Wifi), battery backed but mains operated compact device (little bigger than a mug) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GP2X Game Console &#8211; Poweful Underdog</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/gp2x-game-console-poweful-underdog/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/gp2x-game-console-poweful-underdog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit any computer shop and the console games you&#8217;ll see on sale are just for the PSP and Nintendo consoles. Yet there is a stylish and powerful games console costing just Â£125.00 that runs Linux out of the box and has loads of free software available. You don&#8217;t need to hack it to run your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Element Made of Wood</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/computer-element-made-of-wood/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/computer-element-made-of-wood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lego]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is quite clever. In all CPUs there are circuits for doing arithmetic. One is an adder. It er adds numbers. It works in binary (all ones and zeroes). If you add 1 to 1 you 10 (in binary- the equivalent of 2 in decimal). You can read more about adders on wikipedia. Matthias Wandell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Connection Strings?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/looking-for-connection-strings/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/looking-for-connection-strings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[connection strings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is for the programmers of the world. It&#8217;s easy to understand. If you work with databases, particularly on windows then for the last ten or so years since ADO first appeared you&#8217;ll be familiar with the concept of a connection string; a way of specifying a connection along with parameters in data, ie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What The Font?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/what-the-font/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/what-the-font/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever see a font you liked but had no clue as to what it was? What The Font is a free Font Matcher. Save a screen dump of the font (the bigger- the better) and upload it, or pass them a link. The words &#8216;A test&#8217; are in Frutiger 65 and I uploaded this image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost In Translation &#8211; Machine Translation Gone Wrong</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/lost-in-translation-machine-translation-gone-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/lost-in-translation-machine-translation-gone-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/15/lost-in-translation-machine-translation-gone-wrong/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like this. What happens if you enter a phrase in English then have it translated into foreign languages then back to English. That what this site does, using the Babelfish translation service. For instance the phrase &#8220;This website is called Portent and it&#8217;s about interesting, new and fun stuff on the web.&#8221; when run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkers Solved!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/checkers-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/checkers-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/01/checkers-solved/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it, some computer scientists at the University of Alberta have worked out how to always win at Checkers (known in the UK as Draughts). To prove it they have created a Java applet which can play you and will always win. Checkers has a search space of 5&#215;10^20 (ie 5 followed by [...]]]></description>
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