My 78 year old grandfather, sky-diving
Posted on August 31, 2006 - Filed Under action, family, video | Leave a Comment
And I put my first google video video up. Not as impressive though, huh? (If you want to see it bigger than the small window above, click here - you can also download a file from that link).
Read More..>>Psycho Citroën
Posted on August 31, 2006 - Filed Under automobile, photos | Leave a Comment
Psycho Citron
Originally uploaded by Happysmurfday.
Read More..>>Announcing Henry Wolfgang Fergus Dean
Posted on August 25, 2006 - Filed Under baby, family, henry | 6 Comments
Henry Wolfgang Fergus Dean (possibly Henry Wolfgang Fergus Dean if Mel can get away with it - we haven’t filled the forms out yet) was born nearly 4 hours ago at 23:01 on the 24th August 2006. He weighs 4.195 kg (Axel, our first son, only weighed 3.6 kg) and has a full head of [...]
Read More..>>The Chaser’s War on Everything Video Podcast
Posted on August 19, 2006 - Filed Under podcast, syndication, tv, video | 1 Comment
Chaser is one of those shows that I always mean to watch but never do. Most of these shows (they ones I mean to watch) seem to be on ABC or SBS in Australia. But it appears that they are putting up video podcasts of their complete episodes, which is probably close to a first [...]
Read More..>>How I read ebooks
Posted on August 19, 2006 - Filed Under books, ebooks, fiction, howto, sf | 8 Comments
Well, it appears the link from Boing Boing to my article about locating DRM-free ebooks may have brought a little bit more traffic here than normal (click on the thumbnail for a close-up). As a result there are a lot of good comments about other places to get your scifi than the 5 I mentioned. [...]
Read More..>>David Dean: children’s book illustrator
Posted on August 18, 2006 - Filed Under art, david dean | Leave a Comment
I have found another David Dean who has blogged (once). David Dean is a artist who appears to mostly do children’s books. He has some quite nice covers in his portfolio here. But, he also writes about his workspace in the On My Desk blog:
This is what I laughingly call my studio (in reality the [...]
How to plot a 2D histogram using matlab
Posted on August 17, 2006 - Filed Under howto, matlab | 4 Comments
So, I wanted to plot a 2D histogram in matlab, but the pickings were slim. I really just wanted something that worked as much like hist as possible. So I wrote my own:
HIST2D calculates a 2-dimensional histogram
N = HIST2D(X,Y) bins the X and Y data into 10 equally spaced bins [...]
Read More..>>David Dean: Boat Building TV Personality
Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under david dean, diy | Leave a Comment
This particular David Dean is a host of a US local cable show that is focused on building boats. Local cable DIY kind of reminds me of Tim Allen somehow.
This series of half-hour programs about building boats has been a popular offering on over one hundred and fifty American Public Television stations for the past [...]
Pointers
Posted on August 7, 2006 - Filed Under comics, humour | Leave a Comment
Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar– SEGMENTATION FAULT.
Link.
How to write a CRPIT paper in lyx
Posted on August 5, 2006 - Filed Under conference, howto, latex, lyx | 1 Comment
How to write a CRPIT (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology) paper in lyx:
Make sure the harvard package is installed in Latex.
Copy the CRPITStyle.cls class file available here to your localtexmf/tex/latex, and make sure you refresh the Latex database
Copy CRPITStyle.layout into Lyx’s layout folder (C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\layouts for me)
Open Lyx, Run Tools -> Reconfigure [...]