Tokyo-based Perl Moose wrangler by day, Learning Japanese, Korean, German and computational linguistics by night.Tumblr (3.0; @benhumphreys)http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/<p>Was trying to remember Python framework name: “Pot? Jar? Lamp?” The answer was Bottle. #synonymfail</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438982690http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438982690Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:42 +0900<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2b14VTOf1qzi4c6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Reading about the Mayan writing system. Fascinating stuff!</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438781562http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438781562Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:41:28 +0900<p>RT: @<a href="http://twitter.com/benschwarz">benschwarz</a>: annnd heres where @<a href="http://twitter.com/foursquare">foursquare</a> start selling all the information you gave them. Enjoy, kids. <a href="http://bit.ly/drYXYt">http://bit.ly/drYXYt</a></p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438679834http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/438679834Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:02:25 +0900<p>Wondering if it’d be worth making a pure-Ruby version of Mecab for portability and a fun project.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249128http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249128Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:53 +0900<p>Got Mecab working, but ideally I want to put this online and I can’t get root access to install this on most servers.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249130http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249130Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:53 +0900<p>Want to get a Japanese Part-of-Speech tagger up and running, but it’s always the setup that takes ages.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249134http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249134Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:53 +0900<p>Also trying out <a href="http://www.alfredapp.com">www.alfredapp.com</a> (via @<a href="http://twitter.com/puresock">puresock</a>)</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249133http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249133Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:53 +0900<p>Nevermind, trying Mecab/Chawan/Ruby stuff now</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249131http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/437249131Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:53 +0900<p>chasenを使ってみようっと。。。なんか動かないな。日本語POSでいろいろ試してみたいだけ。。</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436888271http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436888271Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0900<p><a href="http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/">http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/</a> GENIUS</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436888273http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436888273Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0900<p>Cafes with Wifi/LAN/Power <a href="http://hack-space.com/">http://hack-space.com/</a> (via @<a href="http://twitter.com/miyagawa">miyagawa</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/dice">dice</a>)</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436596593http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436596593Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:07:42 +0900<p>I want a shiny status board like this at work! <a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/">http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/</a> via @<a href="http://twitter.com/panic">panic</a></p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436291447http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/436291447Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:55:21 +0900<p>Open Data! <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html</a> I want more tagged corpuses</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/435777047http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/435777047Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:46:35 +0900<p>Listening to <a href="http://bit.ly/dqX7GG,">http://bit.ly/dqX7GG,</a> found them as they feature on the new Gorillaz album.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434589580http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434589580Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:46:58 +0900<p>I really want to use Web::Scraper but the docs and examples leave me confused.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434308259http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434308259Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:20:04 +0900<p>How I roll at work: dual vertical screens, vertical start bar, vertical ffox tabs. Who needs widescreen when you’re 80-character coding.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434308262http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/434308262Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:20:04 +0900<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyy5nvFbmO1qzi4c6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New reading material. It’s quite old, from the late 70s I think. Reading about が/は as it’s still a bit of a mystery.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433987519http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433987519Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:54:34 +0900<p>I disable adblock on this article <a href="http://bit.ly/ba28dR">http://bit.ly/ba28dR</a> and ironically I get an ad for Lotus Notes. Point proven.</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433889090http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433889090Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:05:21 +0900<p>Perl’s test coverage tools are So useful. I now know where to focus my efforts in improving coverage!</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433889130http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/433889130Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:05:21 +0900<p>TV CM for ECC English has awfully-pronounced English from Beat Takeshi. Maybe the first lessons should start with pronunciation from scratch</p>http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/431950211http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/post/431950211Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:35:02 +0900