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A colleague of mine with a teenage daughter passed on a new phrase he learnt recently: “totally book”. When asked to guess what it might mean I was at a complete loss. Was it a kind of put-down, suggesting the subject has book-like qualities? Turns out “book” here is a synonym for “cool”.
It’s a cliché to say backups are an insurance policy but it’s true in so many ways. In particular, you never know if the policy is worth the money until you actually have to use it. I’ve been using SuperDuper! and an external drive as my and Julieanne’s insurance and, after a nasty hard drive crash, I’m happy to say it has been worth every cent.
I don’t often post about politics as there are several changed climates worth of hot air spent by others on the topic already. However, a Government ad in the Sunday paper entitled “How does the new Citizenship Test work?” left me so speechless I felt compelled to say something.
Not Sleeping, Waking
15 Oct 2007
An update on what's been keeping me busy
A LyX Thesis Layout for UNSW Theses
09 Sep 2007
Stop formatting and start writing!
From Sydney to Canberra
09 Jul 2007
And from industry to academia
ICML Trends
02 Jul 2007
Data-mining 20 Years of ICML Papers
i iz in ur memes stealin ur jokes
27 May 2007
From cats and dogs to Bush and Howard
Sinatra and DataMapper Tutorial
A set up and code-walkthrough tutorial for the Sinatra web framework and the DataMapper ORM.
Videos for Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"
Mash ups of videos related to the songs mashed up by Girl Talk on his "Feed the Animals" album. Copyright infringing fun for all!
Algorithms
Complete final draft of the 2006 book by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani.
Google Web Toolkit
An interesting project that allows programmers to write web interfaces in Java which is then cross-compiled to JavaScript, making debugging and testing easier.
Building a Social Network Site in Rails
A good blog post listing a number of very useful libraries to do most of the now expected functions of your typical social networking site.