Hello. I am Paul Kinlan.

I've finally uploaded my final year project, even amidst a house move and lack of internet! It explores how neural networks can detect telecom fraud. I've also built a related application, but I'll share more details later. Stay tuned for more insights from the project.

I'm revisiting my final year university project on telecoms fraud detection. I built a system that generated call records and used a MATLAB neural network to analyze them for fraud. It worked surprisingly well! Now, I'm planning to rebuild the neural network in C# as a learning exercise to understand the underlying algorithms better. I'll be blogging about the project, neural networks, and the C# development process.

Quick update: Things have been hectic with my house move, so blogging has taken a backseat. Not sure when I'll be back on a regular schedule.

I recently discussed the lack of retail web service APIs for major companies like Tesco, Dixon's, and HMV. I've since discovered an ASDA Soap API on maskell.uk.com. I'm impressed by this development, though I'm uncertain how it's implemented (possibly screen scraping). Check it out!

This post addresses the Google search query "c# convert date from uk to usa." It provides a C# code snippet using CultureInfo and DateTime to convert a date string formatted according to UK conventions into a US date format. The code takes the date string from a textbox, parses it using the UK culture settings (en-GB), and then formats the resulting DateTime object according to US culture settings (en-US) before outputting it to another textbox.

I've just upgraded to RSS Bandit 1.3.0.38 and I'm really pleased with it. This version successfully imported Robert Scoble's huge OPML file, has a refreshed UI, and seems to load large numbers of posts much faster (maybe due to disabling XSLT formatting).

I'm developing Ajax Tagger 2.0 and need ideas for displaying related blogs within the application and its output. I'm also searching for a good search engine (besides Technorati and Google) to find related blogs and feeds. Any suggestions? Please email me or leave a comment.

I've updated the AJAX Tagger and moved it to a new subdomain: ajaxtag.kinlan.co.uk. This should make it easier to access. The old location (www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag2) will still work and be updated alongside the new address.

I've updated my Ajax Tagger 2.0 tool! It now provides related search results and outputs them as OPML, including RSS feeds for search engines like MSN, Technorati, and Google Blog Search. I'm looking for more search engines that offer RSS output. If you know of any, especially for Google or Yahoo, please share!

In a previous post, I discussed using the .NET Framework on the Xbox 360. It turns out you can create Media Center applications, install them on your media server, and then control them via the Xbox 360 UI. The processing happens on the Media Center PC. More details are available in an MSDN article.