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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
The17
Bill Drummond's new "post-music" project. Currently the site consists of a number of notices saying that the era of recorded music is over and that we need to start over, as well as a number of scores for 17 performers. These seem reminiscent of John Cage and Brian Eno.
ProjectPlus
A nifty TextMate plug-in that shows SVN and git file statuses. Also replaces the project drawer with a project panel that remembers more of the project's state.
Google Calendar CalDAV support
Read and write Google calendars from CalDAV clients such as Mac OS X Leopard's iCal.
Music, Sound & Audio Tutorials
A collection of audio tutorials covering production, recording, effects, sampling, etc.
Larry Lessig says the law is strangling creativity
In this TED talk Lessig argues that remixing digital culture is the mode in which "kids" create and communicate and that a lack of common sense in the law today is breeding extremism on both sides of content production and consumption.