distributed proofreading

after a brief wikipedia ramble i found myself at the distributed proofreaders europe site, almost as if wikipedia was expelling me to go do something more constructive instead.
DP is a feeder project for the free ‘etexts’ at project gutenberg; organisers scan out-of-copyright texts, and submit the batch of pages with best-effort OCR scans, which are […]

wireless london and accessories

Busily hacking together prototypes for Wireless London, a free network service collection thing.
The package will eventually contain an RSS aggregator server; written using the redland python interface, and a standalone GiST based spatial index. I’m planning to cobble together a generic RDF aggregator package soon, mostly from other peoples’ rss storage and feed parsing code. […]