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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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Qualche giorno ReadWriteWeb ha chiesto ai suoi lettori quali sono i linguaggi di programmazione che pensano di studiare nel 2011. La selezione è piuttosto ampia e include buona parte i linguaggi attorno ai quali c’è fermento questi mesi (tra gli altri Clojure , Go , Erlang , Haskell ). Ci si rivolge a programmatori esperti che hanno già maturato una certa esperienza, probabilmente per questo motivo sono esclusi alcuni grandi classici ..
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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After doing this two years I figured I needed to continue my tradition. If you want to see how right or wrong I
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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This year instead of bothering with making a big deal of Christmas, getting presents, etc, C and I decided to just go out and have a nice meal. A couple of weeks ago my recruiter held a lunch at the Atrium in Burswood and it was excellent, so I thought we could go to the same place for dinner.
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I finally got animations working! I'm using a Blender to FBX script, along with this fantastic multi-take FBX importer. Apparently XNA depends on the actual FBX API for importing, and the API changed drastically just before XNA 4 released, so they didn't have time to get multiple takes (animation clips) working in one file. This importer automagically splits out the takes from the FBX file, processes them independently, then combines them i..
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I have a tendency of really latching onto very simple ideas. Typically these ideas don’t require complex engineering to make them happen. This is not to say the engineering is not important, but more so that it is some variation of engineering feats that have been done before. The reason I tend to like these over more complex engineering that really makes something better is that making something better is typically a marginal improvement. ..
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I have a tendency of really latching onto very simple ideas. Typically these ideas don’t require complex engineering to make them happen. This is not to say the engineering is not important, but more so that it is some variation of engineering feats that have been done before. The reason I tend to like these over more complex engineering that really makes something better is that making something better is typically a marginal improvement. ..
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Okay, it's time to shed some light on this project. First off, my goal is to release on Xbox and, if possible, Steam (if not, I'll be looking at other online stores). I figure these are the two largest, most practical target markets. The release price will be between $1 and $5, with 100% of the proceeds going to charity (more on this later...). There are two main themes I want to nail in this game. The first is giving the player ..
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, just before the dawn of the third millennium AD. In the beginning Turing created the Machine. And t....
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, just before the dawn of the third millennium AD. In the beginning Turing created the Machine. And t....
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I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so is more readable on my netbook’s screen. Thus, these tools are designed to work with the output of dedexer, but the formats are simple enough that they should be e..
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I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so is more readable on my netbook’s screen. Thus, these tools are designed to work with the output of dedexer, but the formats are simple enough that they should be e..
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Merry Christmas - How to save time by never registering for websites
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BugMeNot is a site dedicated to providing usernames and passwords for (m)any websites. It's a great way to avoid logging in. However, it's sometimes tedious to check every time whether there is a login available or not. I am not sure I really save that much time going to the website each time and trying to locate a working password. Luckily there is a solution! BugMeNot Extensions for Firefox and Chrome ! Checkout Chrome Versi..
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Calculating the popularity of a page or article is something that usually comes up as a list of requirements for any social website. Essentially you want to display the post popular items/articles in some form of list but have them weighted by how old they are. Thankfully its pretty easy to do MySQL. ((popularity-1)/power(((unix_timestamp(NOW())-unix_timestamp(datetime))/60)/60,1.8)) The above produces a number which you can then sort on...
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How scary would it be if you had to purchase access to certain websites like you purchase access to certain channels on cable?
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I spoke at LINX71 about the testing that we (C&W) have been doing in the lab with 100GigE - we got a pre-production card and hence had a look at the technology for real. Thanks to LINX, the presentation video can be seen by clicking on the image below.
Once again, however, whatever LINX use as a presentation laptop didn't render my slides properly - even though I'd submitted PDF too! Hence the slides can be found on this site .
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I spoke at LINX71 about the testing that we (C&W) have been doing in the lab with 100GigE - we got a pre-production card and hence had a look at the technology for real. Thanks to LINX, the presentation video can be seen by clicking on the image below.
Once again, however, whatever LINX use as a presentation laptop didn't render my slides properly - even though I'd submitted PDF too! Hence the slides can be found on this site .
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See updates at the bottom of the post I tried to buy a Kindle ebook yesterday from the Amazon site only to be told that the book was not available for Australian customers. Unfortunately I couldn’t find an electronic version of the book anywhere else, so tried a few ways to purchase this thing from Australia. I was finally successful in purchasing the Kindle eBook.
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Googles Page Speed “Optimizations” Make Learning Difficult If you, as I, grew up during the web bubble we call the 90’s and were interested at all in web development my guess is that you probably didn’t learn most of your skills from a book or a class. You probably would run across a site that had something cool on it and ponder “Oh my, how does that work?” right click, view source, and after some digging were enlightened. I’m certain t....
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Googles Page Speed “Optimizations” Make Learning Difficult If you, as I, grew up during the web bubble we call the 90’s and were interested at all in web development my guess is that you probably didn’t learn most of your skills from a book or a class. You probably would run across a site that had something cool on it and ponder “Oh my, how does that work?” right click, view source, and after some digging were enlightened. I’m certain t....
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I don't exactly know which technology was used to create this, but here is a 111 gigapixel zoomable image of the town of Sevilla in Italy. It really is remarkable and as it stands this image holds the world record for the highest resolution picture ever created.
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I don't exactly know which technology was used to create this, but here is a 111 gigapixel zoomable image of the town of Sevilla in Italy. It really is remarkable and as it stands this image holds the world record for the highest resolution picture ever created.
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I've moved the ShortPHP blog to my personal blog. Due to the possibility of it becoming more active here. I've recently set up ShortPHP at github.com so you can fork the project or create contributions of your own and submit them.
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