1. Start: 2:50am
2. E-mail: Examining the raw source of a spam message that includes an in-line image used twice. Accompanying text is a series of sentences with random themes. I wonder if it is possible to do some simple theme analysis, author style analysis or reading level to recognise it as spam. I've got lots of messages including spam to try some analysis and know about some spam corpus to try techniques on. (10 minutes)
3. Web: Scanning business IT news looking for content relevant to my PhD topic. Found an article by Helen Bradley (The Age) Sign your work which included a link to Gallery of Annoying SIgnatures and Esther's Signature File Collection which might be relevant to message recognition. (30 minutes)
4. Web: Looking through comments in the CouchDB Relax book beta site and found they are writing their O'Reilly book using asciidoc. Generates HTML and Docbook (which can give PDF and RTF documents) which is just what I want. Tried lots of version control systems and have settled on git (good tutorial) for my PhD thesis. (20 minutes)
5. Act: Added some more structure to my thesis. Learnt some more git. (15 minutes)
6. Pod: Listened to a CounterPoint podcast while jogging. Nicholas Gruen One of the things about Milton Friedman is that he was what I would call a kind of commonsensical economist, again, in the tradition of Keynes in that he was trying to use simple stylised facts and simple models to understand how the world works. He was trying to make the money simplifications, pick the two or three important simplifications.
7. Idea: E-mail triage as a serious game. My first thought was Guitar Hero and a stream of notes and red/green/yellow buttons or Whack-a-Mole
8. E-mail: unread 105.
9. F2F: Discussed itc240/itc540 teaching issues with P.A. (10 minutes)
10. Ev: Attended P.A.'s farewell. (30 minutes)
11. Ev: Attended Copyright Seminar (1 hour)
12. Act: Completed copyright training test Part A 5/5 Part B 8/10 - passed (15 minutes)
13. Act: Completed copyright training evaluation survey (20 minutes)
14. F2F: Discuss short-notice marketing opportunity at local high school to be held tomorrow with Anthony and Lynne. (15 minutes)
15. E-mail: Enquiry from HK SPACE about assignment submission required a detailed reply. (20 minutes).
16. E-mail: handle several messages from students (20 minutes)
17. E-mail: unread 94
18. Phd: Added Spegal.
19. End: 10:15pm
20. Entry: Creating and updating. (30 minutes)