I read an article a few days ago which was showing the results of a poll of about 1400 people regarding their productivity times, and it concluded that precisely at 10:04 PM is the best time to get your thoughts straight, while 4:33 PM you probably should avoid doing anything seriously :D. You can also effectively use bathroom for increasing the chances of getting an inspiration or solving a problem.

I have published the C++ source code for extracting robust hue histograms which is a color descriptor for image patches. You can get more information from this page: Robust Hue Histogram.

This is an interesting video showing 3 smart graphics designers which took them 4 days to recreate the Omaha beach invasion scene of the Saving Private Ryan film. {{youtube WRS9cpOMYv0}}

Puppy linux is what I call it the best of lightweight linux distributions. I have a quite old machine at home, a PIII 500 MHz with 386 MB RAM. While other distros crawl on it (even those which claim to be lightweight), I found Puppy to be rocking on it blazingly fast. It has a technology to load itself to RAM and become quite fast even on old machines. It comes in less than 100 MB and has a wide range of nice applications suitable for older machines.

Here is the instructions and necessary files for Feature Selection Lab1 at Pascal Bootcamp 2007, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain: Lab1 instructions Lab1 files