tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55423802011-04-21T17:06:40.886-07:00Dyslexia and MeI'm dyslexic, I make software to help dyslexics (or people with dyslexia if your prefer). I like Artificial Intelligence (AI), and making it relevant to todays technology.Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1121293548793724042005-07-13T15:21:00.000-07:002005-07-13T15:25:48.800-07:00Interesting stuff about Flicker Fusion ThreasholdsAnd my all time favourate thing to do whith flaming knives.Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1096563900590905042004-09-30T09:50:00.000-07:002005-07-13T15:28:57.106-07:00Long time no blog!Well a lot has happened. I sold Instines !!!!I made a new site for dyslexia softwareAnd I've come a long way with Read-e http://www.Read-e.comPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1078056686455117252004-02-29T04:11:00.000-08:002004-02-29T04:13:32.403-08:00Being slightly obsessively - OK very obsessively - in to Einstein and his theories from an early age, being dyslexic, and going on to study physics at uni, I have already compiled a lot of evidense to the effect that Einstein was dyslexic. Here's some more (ironically, I've only read it after the age he may be refering to):
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1077965894503180902004-02-28T02:58:00.000-08:002004-02-28T03:00:18.763-08:00New tactic! I've decided to offer Read-e for free (for home use), if the user agrees to allow AR to share the use of their processor. "Eh?" I hear you say. Well - I have several projects that could do with some serious processing power. e.g. using a genetic algorithm to solve optical character recognision.
The user would be asked if they want to share their CPU's unused processing time. If they Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1076837068535959652004-02-15T01:24:00.000-08:002004-02-15T01:26:20.216-08:00Well the OCRing is going slow, decpite a week of solid slog, little progress made and lots of useless code created. But some progress has occured.
Something strange has cropped up this week though. It turns out I have a stammer. The JISC mail Dyslexia forum has been discussing stammers and dyslexia recently. This prompted me to mention that I occasionally get stuck midsentence and repeat words. Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1075639636486429902004-02-01T04:47:00.000-08:002004-02-01T04:48:54.060-08:00At last some good AI to get my teeth stuck in to. I've needed an OCR (Optical Carachter Recognition) component for some time, to add certain features to Read-e.
I found a royalty free bit of technology that did the job, but after 2 weeks of trying to get threw to their tech support, I've decided to make my own. Again I find myself using the concepts I first learnt about in my Physics Msci.
Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1074178343243061462004-01-15T06:52:00.000-08:002004-01-15T06:56:10.373-08:00I'm restructuring my web efforts today (dispite The doc's orders). I've decided to put down some of my words of wisdom, as info pages at dyslexia-software.com
However, my links page may suffer for it.Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1074113246802127722004-01-14T12:47:00.000-08:002004-01-15T06:44:43.186-08:00Well if it isn't one thing, it's another, as my granny would say. After work putting the kibosh on my blog, now ill health is taking it's toll. Nothing serious (I hope) but I'm under doc's orders not to spend too much time in front of the screen.
Anywhoooo - my web searching is put on hold. However, I am happy to say that Read-e PLUS will soon have a commercial CD version, which should really Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1068818734953193832003-11-14T06:05:00.000-08:002003-11-14T06:05:54.843-08:00Outright winner for today is http://home.clara.net/ghrow/subjects/dyslexia.html. #1 result for "dyslexia links" on Google and others. And not without reason. A little out of date, a fare number of dead links and the webmaster's email link doesn't work, yet still the best private links page I can find on dyslexia. Someones put a lot of effort into the page, and they deserve the 9/10 rating and 5/5Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1068482797218073522003-11-10T08:46:00.000-08:002003-11-10T08:55:13.523-08:00The day has finally arrived. I'm now embarked upon my trec through the big wild web, to find useful dyslexia, LD, reading, and other such related sites. Today is a bit of a slow start, but its a start.
I'm attempting to go through the first 600 results for the following search queries:
dyslexia
visually impaired
accessibility
reading
education
Yes that's 3000 sites I'm going to traul. But evenPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1061652192843556352003-08-23T08:23:00.000-07:002003-08-23T08:25:31.653-07:00Another week passes with me trapped in the toils of app dev and testing. Instines For Networks now has a few new tricks up it's sleave, which should be useful for users trying to screen large numbers for dyslexia.
A VNCesque virtual CCTV sister app. helps a supervisor watch the screens of the subjects sitting a test. And an assistance request button, helps keep the supervisor on top of things Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1061138271918606212003-08-17T09:37:00.000-07:002003-08-17T09:48:49.966-07:00Although work has been pretty rewarding and productive for me recently, It's all but killed my blogg!
Luckily it looks like the light at the end of the tunnel is fast aproaching for the Techy work that I've been emerced in. So fingures crossed, I'll set to with the web review I promiced many moons ago, within the next week or so (although I've said that before).
Read-e now has POP status on Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1060026752436231542003-08-04T12:52:00.000-07:002003-08-04T12:52:32.353-07:00Well I'm affraid the technical side of work has taken over for a while.
I'm watching some great feedback come in regarding Read-e. Very little in the way of negative response, even though we're approaching 1000 downloads in total.
Some feedback is shown here. Although the number of feedbacks shown seems to be pretty random. And no, Pip and Philip are not me :) I get most of the feedback Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1059159200038654502003-07-25T11:53:00.000-07:002003-07-25T11:53:19.923-07:00Wow. STILL too busy with programming to deal with much blog wise. Dealing less with the intricacies of dyslexia, and more with the tangle Web we weeve.
I'm up to my snorkle in some farely boring site building and promotional techniques.
But it has its moments.Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058911974743962962003-07-22T15:12:00.000-07:002003-07-22T15:15:34.726-07:00Been working on a new version of www.ArtificialRelevance.com today.
Mainly design work that has little to do with dyslexia. I should be looking into background colours and setting. Although it has been interesting for me, todays work was pretty dull for onlookers.
However, I hope to restart my trek through dyslexia sites on the web as soon as I get the all clear from my present work duties. Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058715358417316392003-07-20T08:35:00.000-07:002003-07-20T08:35:58.436-07:00Nearing the completion of the second revision to the, now networkable, dyslexia test Instines. Which should help a lot of FE and SE schools screen in bulk.
And now getting time to start working on Read-e. It's looking good so far, but I could do with more feedback on Read-ePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058533065961106262003-07-18T05:57:00.000-07:002003-07-18T10:13:56.230-07:00In My Life
On days like this when work is mainly uninteresting, regarding dyslexia (I've got pretty good mechanisms to deal with my dyslexia, day-to-day), I'll try to recount some of the more poinient memories of dyslexia in my life.
These first two are easily the two that had most obvious impact on my life and how my understanding of dyslexia can effect it.
The first was when I actually foundPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058463758221832292003-07-17T10:42:00.000-07:002003-07-17T10:42:38.250-07:00Well I said it would happen. Todays entry will be about the current JISC mail discussion. A-levels v Diplomas.
Long story short - I don't want to see a diploma system (as I currently understand highschool diplomas). It's a lazy way to educate, in my humble. One size does NOT fit all. But I do think we could do with changing the system, to reflect the change in the way we use and distribute Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058384493006623432003-07-16T12:41:00.000-07:002003-07-17T03:31:59.143-07:00Well I've started my trek through syberspace. Splitting infinitives where no dyslexics have split infinitives before.
I'm already starting to find boundries that I did not realise were there. Google, which I had thought was nearing omnisience, is in fact far from it. I've already started looking into search technology, due to its limitations.
I've found that, although great for most things, Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058257215983386932003-07-15T01:20:00.000-07:002003-07-15T01:20:15.993-07:00Great news!!!
The site I could only hint about a few postings ago is now available to you all! :)
www.dyslexia-portal.co.uk
I don't want to say anything other than go there now.
Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1058192768186719482003-07-14T07:26:00.000-07:002003-07-14T09:09:30.400-07:00Hello all. I've been programming again today. As always, a new project brings new motivation. Which may mean my blog suffers.
No huge news on the dyslexia front, although I'm about to start a structured sift through google's top 600 sites. This is partially due to me looking for folk to swap links with, but also to find out whats currently visible on the web. I will of course be using Read-e
Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1057923130218358852003-07-11T04:32:00.000-07:002003-07-11T04:32:10.280-07:00Blogs and knowledge.
Like many, I'm finding the whole blogging thing quite exciting, whilst realizing it could turnout to be as usful as a ringtone by your favorite band. However, I'm optermistic. The more I look into the possibilities, the more fun I have playing with them.
It is extremely easy to make bloggs accessible. They are mainly text script, of variable formality. Complete literary Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1057700924804140512003-07-08T14:48:00.000-07:002003-07-08T14:48:44.666-07:00A good day today. I've spotted more sites popping up re adult dyslexia. They're still a little fresh so I'll wait till they're more established before linking to them. Had a few good emails with customers, colleagues and friends. AND managed to get some good coding done! WOW.
The network version of Instines is nearing full release at last. I've also had a great idea about a new product. The AI Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1057429021276477632003-07-05T11:17:00.000-07:002003-07-05T11:17:01.316-07:00It's always worth noting the un-noteworthy, if it doesn't happen very offten, and especially if it makes you happy.
Today, dyslexia played no part in my life. I spent the day with my wife and our 3 yr old daughter, Jessica. I'd did some gardening, some DIY and played football with the dog (Vince). At no point did the fact that I am dyslexic, make the slightest bit of difference to my day.
This Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1057315127283506712003-07-04T03:38:00.000-07:002003-07-04T03:38:47.323-07:00I'm thinking my rants on the JISC Mail forum will often be a source of my blog content. The forum is an excelent place to air and listen to points veiws.
Check the archives. They are crammed with info, opinions and snippets of everyday experiences.
Occasionally I get a little too involved on it, but someone has to. There are other fora for professionals such as Special Educational Needs Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542380.post-1057263995131210952003-07-03T13:26:00.000-07:002003-07-03T13:55:01.743-07:00Firstly download Read-e from www.artificialrelevance.com
Well - this is my first post, and now I'm not sure what I want to say. I'm sure that, or something like it, is the opening line of many blogs :)
I'm Phil, and I'm fairly intrenched in trying to make life more productive and comfortable for dyslexics. Dyslexia has effected me in so many ways, and many of those good. So I won't just be Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425402420949791133noreply@blogger.com