One from the Simpsons File. According to This Story, a Japanese gadget has worked out how to decode baby talk and work out what they are saying.

Photo of the Day

Here are two more photos from the conference back in 1999. The conference was located at the Riccarton Park Race Course in Canterbury. I was staying in a motel just at the entrance to the park which was really nice – apart from the fact that the phone line was too noisy for dialup. Never mind – there was a courtesy phone in the foyer of the venue, and I plugged my laptop in there. Since local calls were free this did not cost the venue anything.

I was presenting to 2-300 people which was amazing. A photo is shown just below. The venue was fantastic. Being the June long weekend, this was the time that the Honors came out. Sir Angus Tait was there, and this was the weekend that he got is SIR for services to Radio. During this weekend I also managed to catch a rather interesting lecture about some of the mechanical engieering involved in the AO-40 spacecraft which some friends helped build – and which is currently dead.

Whenever I go back to New Zealand I see people who mention this conference and say that it was the best presentation that they have ever seen. For them I made GPS tracking interesting… I know one thing – after each talk I give I tend to be exhausted.