Archive for July, 2004
Downtime
Blog wont be updated for a while.
In the process of moving to wordpress.
cheers.
Neural Asssociative links
Long time no post…
Busy doing my PHD confirmation of candiature report changes. Should be done by the end of this week. Also been trying to get up to speed on other phd stuff… joy
Other then that - same ol same ol, booked a flight to sydney in sept to see the family… should be good.
Im [...]
A Lazy Weekend
So yeah, the weekend was spent reading, watching farenheit 9/11, and playing a few games - very laid back after my PHD confirmation talk last friday.
Books:
Spent most of the weekend reading.
The Subversion book is pretty good, im keen to get my hands dirty and set up a subversion server. - more on this later.
Games:
Finished Hitman [...]
PHD Confirmation Presentation
Well i had it today… went alright although i got a bit of a pounding in the question session. Some dude that didnt really understand what i was doing was asking really weird questions…. bleh…
So.. turns out i need to rewrite some sections of my confirmation document *sigh* Ive got 4 weeks to do it…. [...]
Calculus
I learnt today that the term ‘Calculus’ can refer to tarter build up on teeth near the gums.
The following image - ripped off from the description at Dental Reference shows what im talking about.
Supragingival calculus occurs above the gum line. It’s usually white or pale yellow in appearance and is easily removed by your dentist [...]
Why Do I Use Macs?
* They just work.
* No spyware / adware
* Sweet looking hardware
* Free and great dev tools - XCode, gcc, Interface builder, etc
* Mac OS X - mac stuff / unix stuff
* The ‘i’ apps - iPhoto, iMovie, etc
* No Viruses.
* The inovation on the mac platform.
* Using state of the art technology.
* Being on the [...]
DashBoard vs Konfabulator
This says it all. If you have questions about the DashBoard / Konfabulator debarcle going on then read that article - its great.
On a side note - it appears dashboard is a lot more powerful then i first though. Each widget is actually a webview - which absically means it can display anything a webview [...]