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Month November 2009

The week that was

I've got 1 free day down in melbourne today, any suggestions? #
Hahaha, I just remembered the http://www.tinyurl.com/atagwhichmakestheurlmuchlongerthanitreallyshouldbe link given at the OzCHI closing yesterday #
Sorry, make that – the http://tinyurl.com/atagwhichmakestheurlmuchlonger ref given at the OzCHI closing yesterday #

url shorteners

Shouldn’t a URL ’shortener’ service make the URL shorter? perhaps even a google search term would have been appropriate, but then again that might have used up enough energy to boil a kettle*.
* I’ll have to explain this one later..

ozchi 2009

I’m heading down to Melbourne tomorrow for the 2009 OZCHI conference with Frank Maguire, Bert Bongers and Dan Hill, to attend and present (with Frank) some research work we’ve done recently.  I’m looking forward to it, one of the add-ons for this conference is a workshop on Street Computing organised by the ubiquitous Marcus Foth.  [...]

The week that was

I have to say that $1.30 for 9 tissues is a bad deal. I don't care how many ply, it's just not on. lesson learnt! #
[Via ZeFrank] yet again – a stop motion piece that re-invents the medium http://bit.ly/1nWyV8 #
"check yourself before you… Trek yourself" http://bit.ly/4bIUzS Dan Meth remakes the star trek prequel in [...]

you should use grep

You should use GREP.
If you haven’t heard of grep before, it’s a very fancy pattern search tool for text editors. Think of the ‘find’ function but with more advanced capabilities such as searches for whitespace characters, end of line/file or particular character patterns.
I’ve become accustomed to some of the more trivial but useful tricks [...]

analytical graphics

I’m really enjoying the work in Michæl.Paukner’s Flickr photostream, which includes some of the most fantastical analytical graphics, illustrating scientific/theoretical concepts. Most of his work is just gorgeous, bringing clarity and simplicity to what could otherwise be convoluted diagrams. Some of my favourites are the solar eclipse and the circular periodic table of [...]

journal-ism

Today I spent some time going through earlier posts, making small tweaks or edits to image sizes – bringing the site back up to date with the new theme (courtesy of subtraction.com). Something that came to mind during this was that I haven’t been using this site as a sketchpad or notebook as much [...]

alex bamford

I just came across Alex Bamford’s flickr images, via Russell Davies.  His images are lovely, his light fight set is worth checking out.  Take a look for yourself;

progress reporting

Lately I’ve been working my way through an academic requirement for all phd students at UTS, which involves submitting a progress reports on my work each and every semester. These reports are essentially a simple 4-page form but require an appended (also 4 page) report outlining what you set out to do, what you [...]

The week that was

Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again http://bit.ly/jamesbrownradio #
Lord of War, not so great. From Gattaca and The Truman Show to this? A smug Nic Cage is almost bearable, but I can only take so much! #