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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Keeping secrets is tough. Hearing about the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from John Lam in February this year was one of those secrets that kept well.
John Udell interviewed John Lam, and has a backgrounder here. Some in the Ruby community didn't see this coming.
Jim Hugunin has a posting on the new DLR, open source nature [...]
The Second Shift
Monday, February 19th, 2007The Second Shift is logging off at work, going home, logging back in and continuing to work. If you do this, you are putting in your Second Shift.
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Word of the weekend: Gormless
We’ll all be rooned
Aussie Lingo, Again
Re-writing Historical Works
Word of the weekend: Gormless
Monday, February 19th, 2007Gormless. This adjective echoed around my head all weekend. It might have been inspired by a whole host of occurrences. Careful when using it, however. You will get strange looks and potentially a blackeye from an English student.
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We’ll all be rooned
Sunday, January 21st, 2007My favourite Australian poem, "Said Hanrahan", by John O'Brian (aka Patrick Hartigan)
"...We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
This whole poem seems to epitomise the current weather conditions, farmers and a fleeting glimpse of an old Australia, slowly disappearing.
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Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia
Laurel Papworth: On Morning TV
Decimation of the [...]
Aussie Lingo, Again
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi
Australian lexicon can leave you a few roos loose. And it's been a corker for years - well, at least since cocky was a chick.
Not as dry as a dead dingo's donger is the book Tobruk, by Australia's smartest footballer Peter FitzSimons - a dead easy read, even for non-war [...]
Re-writing Historical Works
Sunday, October 1st, 2006Um Marx falsch zu zitieren, „Fußball… ist das Opium der Arbeiterklasse.“
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Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future
Thursday, September 21st, 2006In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]
Little Britain invades TV Language
Sunday, August 6th, 2006"Only problem - Computer says 'no'"
Ross Coulthart, Great Land Clearing Myth, Sunday, Channel 9.
A meme started by the characterCarol Beer from BBC's Little Britain.
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Abbott on Princes and Hunters
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006"We have the metabolism of hunter-gatherers, and the appetites of Mediaeval Princes."
Tony Abbott, National Press Club Address, 2nd August 2006.
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Welcome to my Wikiality
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Thanks to Stephen Colbert Wikiality: the truth according to Wikipedia. Thinking about this, it has an element of 1984's Ministry of Truth about it. Oh get the subtle irony of referencing the Ministy of Truth on Wikipedia for the truth?
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