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Whenever I think of the best science centers in the world USA and EU states come to my mind. However after having read a very short article at NewScientist (’Get ready for China’s domination of science‘) , I began to wonder how long USA and EU would keep on being the attraction centers for the [...]

I have recently read a wonderful short article at New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/special/get-physical-nine-facts-about-fitness DOES an activity have to get you out of breath to count as exercise? Do you really have to do half-an-hour a day? Is pumping iron a good way to keep your heart healthy? These are just some of the dilemmas many of us [...]

How to Write Original Jokes (Or Have A Computer Do It For You) This is a Common Lisp code walkthrough for generating original jokes. You seed the generator with the knowledge about different objects, and it uses that vocabulary to generate unique jokes. All of the jokes are of the form: “What do you get when [...]

Technopolis, het Vlaamse doe-centrum voor wetenschap en technologie in Mechelen, ontwikkelde samen met het departement Elektrotechniek van de K.U. Leuven de opstelling “Verraadt je stem je herkomst?”. Op basis van een kort tekstje dat door de bezoeker wordt voorgelezen, schat de computer in uit welke provincie hij of zij afkomstig is. Het resultaat is een [...]

Yepyeni bir kitap, daha dogrusu deneyim paylasim sitesi olan ‘Kitap Kokusu‘ hosgeldiniz dedi hayatimiza: “Hayat değişiyor. Geçen zamanla birlikte gerçekliğe ait herşey solup sararıyor, rengini, tadını, kokusunu yitiriyor. Sunilik, bir zamanların korkulu hastalığı veba gibi ama çok daha sinsi bir şekilde hızla yayılıyor. Tüketim, sürekli pompalanıyor. Korkuyla kol kola girip hayatlarımızı yangın yerine çeviriyor. Günden güne, [...]

I am starting to believe that my battery issues were 2-3 isolated incidents. Lately the phone is staying a full 13-15 hours without any issues with moderate usage: 3g/wifi browsing, media player + FM transmitter and the rest.

One thing I did is to remove the RSS applet and empty the RSS feeds. I almost never use them anyway. The other one is to shutdown the phone, remove the battery, hold the power button for 10-12 seconds, put the battery back and start the phone. I don’t know if any of those had an effect on the battery life.

I also contacted the Nokia support, since I still believe that there is an issue with my phone battery. They will send me a new battery. I will have a chance to compare the new one and the old one.

I had a chance to chart a “normal” usage and the deep sleep mode for the phone looks like working pretty good. I’m hesitant about posting more charts to my blog, but I’ll do it anyway to be fair to the previous post. Here are the charts.

As you can see: the system load is way better:

UNESCO’nun 2010 eğitim raporu ile ilgili NTVMSNBC’de bir haber çıktı (”Kürt kızların okula gitme oranı Senegal’den az” başlığı ile) geçenlerde ve alışık olduğumuz üzere raporun özgün haline bir bağlantı yok. Asıl kaynaklarla çalışmaya alışsak pek çok açıdan iyi olacak herhalde. Raporun özgün sayfası: http://www.unesco.org/en/efareport/reports/2010-marginalization/ Habere konu olan basın duyurusunun adresi: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47232&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Haber duyurusunda habere konu olan metin: Language and [...]

This battery life situation is kinda pissing me off.

I wrote a script to get charge, battery %, and cpu load. Made it run every 10 mins to collect the data. I unplugged the phone at 9:40 am. No 3g, no wireless, very few interaction. About 10-20 mins phone conversation. And at 15:30 the battery was completely drained. It gives me 6 hours of battery life under normal conditions.

The handset runs very warm. I found a temp sensor in the /sys folder but I don’t know if it’s telling me the truth since it’s constantly at 38° C. I contacted the Nokia support, I hope they can provide me something. Maybe I have a defect battery.

Here are the charts since I love them…

The ClozeFox plug-in that we are developing for Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge started to get feedback from other users. One of my colleagues, Yusuf Aslan, provided valuable feedback about various features of the plug-in. It is obvious that Yusuf’s knowledge of Dutch surpasses me As you can see from the screenshot ClozeFox reports [...]

I have just discovered two important projects for Turkish language (thanks to a message on zemberek e-mail group): METU Spoken Turkish Corpus Project: The aim of METU Spoken Turkish Corpus Project is to construct a linguistically analyzed resource consisting of one million words of face-to-face or mediated interactions in present-day Turkish. Türkçe Ulusal Derlemi (Turkish National [...]