Avian’s Blog

For the next three months I'll be working for Zemanta on some advanced natural language processing algorithms. Not exactly my profession, but it's always interesting to try something new.

These are Zemanta's famous secret London headquarters where I'm staying. It's a typical English house with two floors and four little bedrooms like this:

Internet access is unfortunately quite problematic here. Currently we have a Vodafone UMTS modem connection that is shared with all our computers through wireless LAN. Certainly not an ideal solution, but it works (sometimes). On the other hand it's nice to know just how much better Slovenian ISPs are compared to this one. This is the first time I see an ISP transparently replacing JPEG images with lower quality ones, inserting Javascript into HTML pages and even blocking some domains completely.