PimpZilla for Mozilla Firefox is one of the richest themes around. It was too ‘bling-bling’ and yellow for me to use at the office, so I modified it slightly. I can imagine the feeling of the original author about the hack, therefore I do not publish it. Contact me if you want a copy however.

PimpZilla in blue contains the official PimpZilla screenshot
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Update: To avoid an E-mail load, I have put the Java archive in this page.

To test my algorithm for a paper (see related work), I needed to generate warped face images (approximately 300 of them) and found myself with a well-occupied workspace. I use the GIMP animation Script FU called “Ripple” to achieve the necessary effects. The script takes an input image and outputs a sequence of images which make up a video of a ripple effect, like a flag.

Example input:

One image of a sequence of outputs:

Thank you, Adam D. Moss, for sharing that excellent script.

large number of users migrate from local mail store and private accounts (often provided by their ISP) to on-line E-mail services such as GMail. The two different mail management paradigms suit different people, though here are some factors to consider:

Experience has taught me that it is ‘healthy’ to combine both, but “different strokes for different folks”.

One of the more amusing stories from Slashdot talks about an academic paper in computer science, which was accepted to be presented at a conference. The catch: all text, figures and references were randomly-generated and are completely incoherent (see Web site). Will a randomly-generated talk be delivered as the guys at MIT promise?

I have continously come across a couple of ducks that somehow found their way to the centre of Manchester. Today I dared to approach and take a picture — one of the 20 pictures that I take every day.

ach and every one of us writes and we all use quotes and apostrophes on occasions. Terrible it is to see how often they are chosen wrongly, or even worse, at random.

TECHWR-L provided me with a long-sought answer. It also revealed that I was using the British style without being aware of it. Statements require double quotes, scare quotes have a single. Have a read to get a short lesson in punctuation.

…I’d suggest British English generally uses double quotes for speech (“Let’s go to the beach,” Jane suggested) but single quotes for things like scare quotes (‘respected’ news sites)…

will apparently deliver a talk at University College London next week. Here is a gist of my current research work:

We are given a collection of raw images depicting an object such as the brain. We then construct a model which can produce synthetic images as shown below.

We developed a framework that can quantitatively evaluate such models, having constructed them automatically. For more details, see a previous entry on the subject or confer my research pages.

This work has recently been accepted for presentation in IPMI, which will be hosted in Colorado. I currently work on papers for MICCAI (due later tonight) in Palm Springs, California and BMVC in Oxford.