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Julieanne and I are very happy to announce the public internet debut of our daughter, Ada Molly Reid, born on the 26th of October, 2008.
Of course, we and our friends and relatives have been extremely snap-happy so there is no shortage of photographic evidence of her first few weeks.
A comment on reddit that placed a questioning Sarah Palin in Leon’s role from the opening scene of Bladerunner got me wondering if there wasn’t a better character that Palin could play. The replicant Rachel in the scene where Deckard tests her seemed the obvious choice.
A quick search for the script, some judicious modification and voila!
Technology + Language = Totally Book!
09 Apr 2008
Predictive Text Weirds Language
Bacon Saved! Thanks SuperDuper!
24 Oct 2007
Or, why you should back up your Mac now
Florid Citizenship
21 Oct 2007
Wattle they ask me next?
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!
Wagn
Apparently a cross between a wiki, a database and a CMS. To investigate further when I'm not supposed to be on holiday.
Text utilities
A great collection of utilities for munging text: hashes, encoders, decoders, word-wrap, etc. The interface has keyboard shortcuts and an web API.
The emergence of French statistics
"How mathematics entered the world of statistics in France during the 1920s". Focusing on the influence of Borel post WWI.
How to read maths
A Hacker News article by Michael Nielsen on how to quickly get up to speed with a technical area. The 15 papers in 3 hours trick sounds like a good one.
Clojure Bookshelf
Rich Hickey's collection of books that influenced Clojure.