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Duvet-Dayz: Welcome back
It’s been a while since we’ve been around - so welcome back.
We’ve been busy doing a few other things but now there will be more duvet-dayz time reserved for us (and hopefully also for you).
So why not start over with some music?
Something nice and new - check the next post.
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Duvet-Dayz: More than 500,000 spam messages received and blocked
Earlier this month we received our 500,000nd spam message and thanks to our spam filters it was blocked like the many others before.
And the winner is..
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Happy Holidays from Duvet-Dayz.com
Thanks to all our readers for another year of your support.
Best wishes and happy holidays!
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Music: 4AD year end features
A set of great and free tracks from British Indie Label 4AD.
Includes most of their artists from Atlas Sound to Stereolab. You can embed their player in your web site (see below) and also download the tracks.
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Duvet-Dayz: 1000 Posts!
Finally, after more than two years and almost 450,000 spam messages received, here it is: Our 1000nd blog post!
We did a break last year for almost four months, but have many plans to expand this place and hope we will get the opportunity to share it with all of you.
Many thanks to all our readers and we hope you will continue coming back to this blog.
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Duvet-Dayz: Web Site Problems
As you might have realized due to infrastructure issues at our ISP the Duvet-Dayz web site was not reachable during the last 24 hours. Thanks for popping by again and sorry for the issues.
Below the sad workload diagram of a database server bobbing along without being used and reduced to an expensive heating device.
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Duvet-Dayz: Some Upgrades completed
We finally have completed the first part of our complete web site overhaul last night and can now start over again to post stories and news on interesting things.
There are still many glitches and issues e.g. with white spaces and differences between IE and Firefox or other web browsers but these will be gone once our new layout will be released within the next days. So far we have implemented the underlying “plumbing” and because of issues with some of the plug-ins we used in the past we were forced to touch every post we have written in the past two years.
Anyway we hope that the new layout and features that are now possible will compensate for the wait. We are currently also evaluating if we will make some of the new features - particularly the semantic web features in the pipeline - available as plug-ins for public use.
Many thanks for your patience and sorry for the delays. From today on we will do what we hope will let you all come back frequently to Duvet-Dayz.com - put up new stories and news.
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Duvet-Dayz: Upgrade of site 2
We are still working on the site upgrade and it now seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel. The first part of the upgrades should become available during tomorrow night or latest during next Monday.
After that we will also be able to resume posting new stories to the site.
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Duvet-Dayz: Upgrade of site
We are currently upgrading this site and it is taking longer than expected.
New posts will be back during the second half of this week.
Sorry for the delay…but that upgrade was overdue for more that a year and we unfortunately have to do most of it manually - meaning we have to touch each of [...]
Joseph Weizenbaum is dead
Joseph Weizenbaum died yesterday in Berlin as a result of a stroke at the age of 85.
Throughout his life he has provided many outstanding contributions to computer science and AI. After he created the first banking computer in the world while working for General Electric he took up a position at the MIT as professor for applied and political science. In 1966 he published “ELIZA” - his best know work - and the first computer program demonstrating natural language processing. His academic contributions include the creation of the SLIP (symmetric List Processor) programming language and research on pointers, list structures and garbage collection schemes.
Over the years he also became one of the strongest critics of computer science and a society that blindly believes into technology. His influential book “Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation” displayed his grown ambivalence towards computer technology. Many concepts from this book have by now become common understandings like, for example, how programmers are seen by society or his critics of the promises by AI.
In one of his last mails “Joseph Weizenbaum” wrote: (translated from German)
“…our death is the last service we can provide to the world: Would we not go out of the way the following generations would not need to re-create human culture. Culture would become fixed, unchangeable and die. And with the death of culture humanity would also perish…“
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