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PaulORorke

  1. Got ticket late for upcoming BB King concert at the Fox in Oakland. In row BB ! Hopefully it's a lucky sign and it's a good seat!
  2. Christmas in Sweden is special. Hot chocolate, hot Glögg (mmm!) and more outside the Nobel Museum in Stockholm http://yfrog.com/h246leyj
  3. T'was wonderful to hear O'Carolan's "O'Rorke Family Feast" performed live at the "Irish Christmas in America" concert at Freight & Salvage
  4. 11/22 Monday night DM SIG mtg: W. Scott Spangler from IBM Alamden on a six step unified approach to text mining http://bit.ly/b0M7Bu
  5. In assassinating spam, Tom Fawcett and Proofpoint rely on complex representations and simple learning methods. See http://bit.ly/bUnmuY
  6. 10/25 Monday night (last reminder): Tom Fawcett will talk about email filtering at the SFBA ACM Data Mining SIG mtg. http://bit.ly/csNFib
  7. I tried OpenJ petition and got MySQL error page #fail
  8. Flurry gave an info packed presentation on mobile app analytics at the BI SIG last week. Check out notes at http://bit.ly/cP93Cx
  9. another cool handset accessory may allow you to do some optometry yourself http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/25897/
  10. Sculley has some surprisingly good insights on Apple, design, Steve Jobs and Sony: http://bit.ly/dgs0Bd
  11. Sad news: RT @newsycombinator: Benot B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Father of Fractal Geometry http://j.mp/a0McEX
  12. Criterion Collection classic Godard's "Contempt" has Brigitte Bardot, Fritz Lang & extras + fascinating talks with the directors.
  13. Bodymedia, a CMU spinoff startup, uses smartphones to gather data from body sensors (via George Bolanos) http://nyti.ms/dBuC9E
  14. 10/25 Tom Fawcett will talk about email filtering at the SFBA ACM Data Mining SIG mtg in Mountain View http://bit.ly/csNFib
  15. 10/12 Mobile SIG: Beyond Mobile App Store Distribution -- Is it a b2b gold mine or b2c fool's gold? sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuse… via @AddThis
  16. 10/19 Mobile App Analytics leader Flurry will talk at SDForum BI SIG mtg at SAP in Palo Alto org by Sonja London http://bit.ly/cvsxde
  17. RT @BuffettInvestor: The Market Ticker – WSJ: Due Process No Longer Required In The United States http://ow.ly/19nDDR
  18. A "Pink Pearl" apple http://yfrog.com/htp06hj from Aurora & Ernie in Loma Mar. Yum! http://bit.ly/bRSZGh
  19. Some people got to see the uncut "Metropolis" but at least I got some gorgeous posters by Alien Corset http://bit.ly/bbEib7