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If you’ve seen this before, I apologise. But the ALICE chatbot has won the prize for most human like conversation for the third time, reports BBC News. It’s rather spooky if you get the conversation pitched right. Chat with A.L.I.C.E.

Oh, and if anyone has a copy of ‘Smile’ by the Supernaturals, send it over would you?

Urm… what else? Well, some strange ‘friends’ of Henry decided to drop me a line. Hey guys, you might like to learn to spell after you’ve figured out how to string a meaningful sentence together? Ah, whatever. Sniff some glue instead.

And it’s officially ‘get well soon’ time for Safia. Something about a door colliding with a knee, I think. Ouch.

I’ve just launched a new page where I intend to showcase my pick of the crop in terms of good, free software worthy of installing. Check it out here.

Currently, my recommended programs are CCleaner, Spybot S&D, Messenger Plus! and GiFFY.

Edit – I’ve also been busy completing my Blogger Profile and updating my Archive system!

Presumably as some kind of reward for doing that ICT coursework I blogged about yesterday, I got to spend a few hours this afternoon with the systems administrator for my school. While it’s somewhat heart-breaking to watching someone joyfully disable every single system privilege they could possibly disable, I’m glad they’ve got someone who understands security.

Well I say that, but 10 minutes after I was asked to test a new group policy, I discovered I could access the documents of every single user on the network. And install programs. Whoops!

Anyway, I’m now almost homework-free for the weekend. Hopefully I won’t do anything stupid, like waste this precious time blogging to no-one Actually, I really must watch these Matrix DVDs a neighbour lent me. (Yeah that’s right, I missed most of the Matrix hype, only catching the first film on DVD years after it came out.)

Oh, and on Sunday Messenger Plus!, a brilliant add-on to Windows and MSN Messenger which allows you, amongst a huge bundle of extra options, to check POP3 email accounts, releases a new version. Download and enjoy!

I’ve just completed and uploaded my mammoth, 44 page Spreadsheet coursework for ICT that’s worth 15% of my final grade. There are 4 projects like this, and I’ll be cracking on with the 3rd – Databases – next week.

Fairly tired, especially considering last night I wrote a 7 page essay on the women in “An Inspector Calls.” It’s a good thing I’m fond of the play, otherwise I might have been thumping my head into the keyboard by the end.

No rest for me though – there’s Humanities homework to do and more just on the horizon. Still, I’m hugely glad for being fairly on top of it all.

If I wasn’t lucky enough to have a computer in my room – I’d be dead.

Good night

A good MSN friend of mine is in the middle of re-making his website (for
about the 50th time, but we’ll let that pass and it looks wonderful. Do
check out http://www.geocities.com/willfd89, partly because he gave my website a rating of 10/10 for update due to this very blog. Thanks!

Still very much under construction – but I love the design.