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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.
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!
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
Workshop on Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS)
This workshop was attended by some big names and a quick scan through the abstracts reveals that some interesting work was presented here. At Stanford in June 2008.
Introducing Ubiquity
This Quicksilver-meets-the-web program by Mozilla Labs is impressive! Even though it is in 0.1 alpha the video demonstrates how ad hoc mashups of web services can be created and used. Particularly cool is how easy they have made it to "subscribe" to "verbs" for Ubiquity created by others.
myGrid
A large project with many sub-projects that aims to provide tools to help "e-scientists" in the bio-sciences to better organise their work and collaboration.
BioCatalogue
A catalogue of web services for the bio-sciences, allowing users to search, register, annotate and monitor web services. Part of the larger myGrid project.
The Matrix Vs. Carl Sagan
Agent Smith (played by Carl Sagan) tortures Morpheus with a long, boring discussion on the nature of matter.