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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
Geometric Keyboard
C-Thru music have created a new geometric keyboard with a honeycomb layout that does for a keyboard what a fretboard does for a guitar: patterns of key presses relative to a root note have the same melodic structure.
What Makes for a Good Blog?
Merlin Mann with a list of good tips on keeping a good blog.
Simple Install of Git on Leopard
Line-by-line walkthrough of downloading, compiling, installing and configuring git for Mac OS 10.5.
REST as an engineering discipline
Bill de hÓra on why REST is about more than simplicity. SOAP is simple too but REST is an architectural style, not a protocol. It gives a coherent framework in which to assess the introduction or relaxation of various constraints.
Extending REST to Decentralized Systems
Discussed a number of extensions to the REST architectural style that adds asynchronous communication, delegation, routing and estimates.