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Ways to spend my time

Ideas already for my unexpected surfeit of time in 2010!Joining the Sydney Recorder Society. I played recorder a lot in high school, through to seventh grade AMEB. I have very rarely played since, nor...

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linux.conf.au 2011 call for papers

We’re seeking a wide range of papers across the whole spectrum, encompassing programming and software to desktop and userland, education, community and law…Some typical topics (but not limited to...

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Wii update error 32022

There are reports of errors in the Wii’s latest firmware update (4.2 to 4.3) around: that the Shop channel will tell the user that they need to do a System Update, and then the update will stall at...

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Chat script for Exetel 3G

While trying to work out what was up with Wii error 32022, I was seeing if using our Exetel 3G dongle (rather than DSL) would let us update. This means that I got reasonable working PPP chatscripts for...

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Self-hosted photos, line, end of

It’s quite probably that sometime in the next few days I will hand my public photo hosting entirely over to Flickr or Picasa, quite belatedly compared to most people I know. I wanted to document some...

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Bookmarklet for making Down Under Feminist Carnival submissions

Chally writes: I don’t know if I’m just doing a bad job of coordinating the Down Under Feminists Carnival or people just do not care about supporting the community, but it’s usually two or three people...

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30 Day book meme, 1

There seem to be a lot of 30 day prompts around at the moment, and I might take on a few of them. The first is the 30 Day book meme, now that I’ve finally found a list of all the prompts. I am not...

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The blog is dead, long live the blog

I’ve decided that at long last, I wouldn’t mind actual discussions occurring on some of my noodling, and so I am moving to a WordPress blog. This is the last entry under puzzling.org/logs/thoughts.The...

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Like advice columns? Check out Captain Awkward

I keep meaning to send the link to individual people I know, but then encountering a crucial etiquette problem, being that one cannot say “here’s an advice column you might like” without being heard as...

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Terms not to use when negotiating meeting times, an incomplete list

Also of use to conference organisers setting submission deadlines.“midnight Tuesday”. Ambiguous between the midnight at the beginning of Tuesday and the one at the end of Tuesday. In casual usage, this...

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Reading habits

I intended to write this as a comment at Matt Zimmerman’s post on ways he reads, but it got rather long.Let’s start with books. I also don’t read as much as I used to, but I am trying to do more of it...

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From comments: this is what a computer scientist looks like

This article originally appeared on Geek Feminism.From comments on Women in science: contrary to popular belief, some of us are actually alive!, Lindsey has started a Flickr group for “This is what a...

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Breastfeeding anti-discrimination changes passed at the Federal level

This article originally appeared on Hoyden About Town.Via the Australian Breastfeeding Association on Twitter, this press release from the Federal Attorney-General: Attorney-General Robert McClelland...

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Quick link: decriminalise abortion in NSW

This article originally appeared on Hoyden About Town.In 2013 and 2014 there was a push to introduce legislation which incorporated fetal personhood into law in NSW: Crimes Amendment (Zoe’s Law) Bill...

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linux.conf.au 2011 call for papers

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