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What's the worst packaging job you've ever received in the mail? Everyone (usually) has a pet peeve when it comes to shipping out things.
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I just came back from my shop and the first use of my newly designed iBOB.
When I first put together my CNC milling machine, I used EMC2 and BOB that I created that gave me manual control over the 3 axis motion. This ran good, but I could see some ideas I wanted to add - but just never got around to it, until a couple of months ago when the BOB died. So I got to work and here is what I have developed:
iBOB is a microprocessor controlled BOB that takes signals in from the PC printer port. The signals are buffered and then output to the stepper motor controllers for the 3 axis. As with the previous model, a simple switch allows me to move between manual control and computer control. But here is where it gets interesting. iBOB has a 4 line x 20 character LCD display that normally displays the position of the 3 axis - in manual or computer mode. This works by running a calibration routine where the computer moves an axis by 1.000 inch. The microprocessor uses this data to come up with a scaling factor to determing how many steps are needed for .001" move. Tracking between the LCD display and EMC2 is pretty dang close to each other.
Signals from the CNC machine (home and limit switches) are deglitched so a short pulse will no longer trip EMC2 into thinking that a switch has been triggered.
iBOB requires two 5vdc power supplies - one for the computer side and one for the CNC side. Opto isolation insures that electrical problems on the CNC side cannot get to the computer.
The hand controller has 6 switches (X+, X-, Y+, y-, Z+, Z-)and a pot for speed control of the axis in manual control. Each axis is calibrated to determine the maximum steps per second that will reliably work. So, 100% speed can be different for all three axis at the same time. Also, each axis ramps up to whatever speed is currently being used. So starting a motor with the speed controller at 100% will not cause the motor to stall.
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I often say geeks rule the world, and we could take over if we wanted to—we just have better things to do with our time. This issue, we explore that notion and show Linus we're well on our way to world domination. I could go on and on, but I think regular folk might get scared if they realized the degree of access we have to information—mwahahahaa. Putting aside my aspirations to be a modern-day Lex Luthor, this month, we talk about infrastructure. Let's face it, Linux rules the roost when it comes to infrastructure. Heck, even a large percentage of Windows servers are really just virtual machines running on top of a Linux hypervisor.
Bill Childers gets us going with that very topic. If you're planning to virtualize much of your existing server room, picking a hypervisor can be the hardest step. Bill compares and contrasts VMware Server, VirtualBox and KVM. In my own server room, I have only one Windows server, and the fact that it runs on top of a Linux hypervisor makes me smile. Bill doesn't stop there, however; he also argues again this month with Kyle Rankin. Kyle seems to think XFS is the best filesystem to use, while Bill is convinced ext3 is still king. I try to stay out of their little spats, but their discussion is enlightening to read.
Every server room needs storage. For many of us, that's just a few hard drives in a RAID array. As needs grow, however, single-server storage solutions don't scale that well—enter SAN. Usually, that means lots of money to an already expensive infrastructure, but Michael Nugent shows us how to create a Linux-based SAN for a fraction of the cost. Along with the need for large storage solutions, comes the need for redundancy. We also have an article on IPv4 Anycast, where Philip Martin explains how to add availability for mission-critical services. (Anyone that has experienced the "network hang" of a downed DNS server will appreciate the notion of high availability!)
Infrastructure extends outside our precious server closets though, and sits on our desks, in our backpacks and even our pockets. When traveling from location to location, changing networks can be frustrating. Abhinav Pathak, Andrei Gurtov and Miika Komu show us a bit about Host Identity Protocol for Linux and how we can keep our identity no matter where we go. In a similar vein, Joshua Kramer demonstrates the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol, which allows applications to communicate with each other regardless of location. Even if you are telecommuting from the "clouds", it's important to be connected. A good infrastructure knows no geographical limits—which brings us to an interview I conducted this month....
Linus may be happy with Linux dominating the world, but quite frankly, some people have bigger goals in mind. The IBM InfoSphere Streams Project aims a bit higher, and using Linux as its underlying base, it gathers information about space weather. The amount of data is so great, it has to be analyzed in real time. I like the sound of "Interplanetary Domination" quite a bit, so Mitch Frazier and I took the bull by the horns and interviewed the folks at IBM. I enjoyed the interview; hopefully, you will too.
What about our regular cast of columnists? They're all here this month too. Reuven M. Lerner continues telling us about RSpec, Dave Taylor shows us how to manage latitude and longitude from inside a shell script, and Mick Bauer describes the ultimate conference for hackers, DEFCON. Speaking of hackers, Kyle Rankin tries to explain why arrow keys have no place in our lives as Linux users and strives to turn us all into die-hard vim users. I'm already mostly with him, but I'll admit I use arrow keys. I guess that makes me a n00b.
So although your coffeepot might not be running a Linux kernel and your dishwasher doesn't instant message you when the cleaning cycle is complete, that time is coming sooner than you think. What will our intergalactic infrastructure be based on? My guess is Linux. This month, you can get a jump start on that transition and perhaps have a say on whether your refrigerator will have an ext3 or XFS filesystem—at least, that's what Bill and Kyle are hoping for.
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By Edward C. Li, PharmD, BCOP, NCCN eBulletin Drugs & Biologics Editor and Jennifer Hinkel, NCCN e-Bulletin Editor-in-Chief
At the NCCN 4th Annual Congress: Hematologic Malignancies™ held on September 11 and 12, 2009 in New York City, NCCN launched the first NCCN Cancer Medication Information Sheets™ (NCCN CMI), a set of patient medication guides. NCCN is releasing this new information product in stages, and made the first three sheets for CML available at the Hematologic Malignancies Congress while two additional sheets will be distributed at the NCCN 2nd Annual Forum: Innovative Diagnostics & Therapeutics in Cancer Care™ on October 2, 2009. The sheets are distributed as tear-off pads so that clinicians can provide the information to patients in a take-home format.
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NCCN CMI sheets are consistent with and derived from chemotherapeutic and biologic regimens defined by the NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates®. As a result, this patient information source is consistent with recommendations developed by NCCN Guidelines Panels for the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology® and NCCN Drugs & Biologics Compendium®. This new information product is not only a tool for educating patients undergoing cancer treatment but also a mechanism for providing patients with information that is consistent with other NCCN recommendations and references.
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BELLBROOK, Ohio (AP) - Authorities in southwest Ohio say they don't think drugs or alcohol played a role in a weekend crash that killed three high school students and injured three others.Family members of the Bellbrook High School students told The Dayton Daily News that the teens were coming back from picking up one of their classmates from a party early Sunday.Shortly afterward, the truck left the road and crashed into a tree, killing 14-year-old Julianna Hawk, 17-year-old Sophie Kerrigan and 16-year-old Skylar Kooken. The other three students in the Dodge extended-cab pickup were injured, with one still in serious condition Monday.The force of the collision uprooted the full-grown tree and buckled and mangled the truck. The accident remains under investigation.
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Very impressive collection, well presented. Have been to a few of their 'special shows' and have always come away learing something new and exciting.
Very impressive collection, well presented. Have been to a few of their 'special shows' and have always come away learing something new and exciting.
Wonderful exhibit space - well lit and with good displays. Two buildings joined by underground walkway.
I have been a slow convert to the fine arts, but truly enjoy our visits to MFAH. Many of the historically great artists are represented and I am always blown away with the statuary in the beginning. 1) Great to see a painting by Van Gogh, Rembrant, Monet right here in town. 2)Small enough to be doable, instead of a... More
I have visited many times and always enjoy the exhibits. There is a wide variety, some permanent and many that rotate in and out. I especially like the impressionist works they often have, as well as some of the classics just prior (timewise). I am NOT an art expert, but I know what I like and they have plenty of... More
We were fortunate to visit while the excellent Picasso Black and White exhibition was on and were able to take our time with the viewing without the crowds that we experience in major museums elsewhere, particularly in London and New York. The museum has a representative range of other art works covering most periods but the quality of the Impressionist... More
I wasn't in lovee with the black and white Picasso paintings, but the audio tour was awesome and made it very interesting. I'd definitely recommend opting for the audio.
Beautiful museums, with a splendid permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. I had the chance to visit Picasso Black and White i missed in NYC. Good tip: if you have a Bank of America Card, the entrance is free.
Located in Houston's famous Museum District, just south of downtown, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts is a large museum consisting of two separate buildings. The museum offers a nice size collection of three- dimensional art and paintings, as well as a research library, theater, classrooms, gift shop, and more. I have visited dozens of art museums over the years... More
Overall, well worth seeing. They have a nice broad spectrum of different artists such as impressionists. However, the selection is a bit small as they only have 1 or 2 of each artist rather than multiples (with a few exceptions such as Remington). But this is not unexpected nor can they be faulted as the museum is on a much... More
It is hard not to compare other art museums to the expansive National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. But although the Houston Museum of Fine Art is much smaller, it has a nice collection of American and European art from various periods. There was also a docent in one of the galleries explaining how artists mixed their colors from... More
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Having consistent processes allows for an essential foundation of patient-centered care: customization. Susan Frampton, president of Planetree, a not-for-profit membership organization working to implement a comprehensive patient-centered model of care, says standardization and customization are not enemies.
"It all comes down to setting up systems up that allow for choice," says Frampton. "For example, every hospital has an admissions process. There's quite a bit of information that's collected at that time. And in a more traditional sense, it's always been information that clinicians think is important to have. A patient-centered approach would be to say, 'What aspects of the experience can we provide choice to patients around that will work for them and work for us? And what sort of systems do we have to have in place to support that?' "
An example would be patient-directed visitation. "You know, you add one question to that admissions paperwork that says, 'Who would you like to have available to you, and when would you like them to be able to be here?' And that information then gives the patient some choice about, 'Who is my support system, who do I need to have here?' If you have a system then where that same information goes into the care plan that the nursing staff is working with, and it's right up there with other important pieces of information—the nurses can really use that to help manage the patient."
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Just another burger joint. I will admit that the homemade root beer and fry sauce is a nice touch but overall this place really didn't "wow" me at all. It's just another burger and fry place. My hubby had a burger with fries and I had a turkey sandwich. Everything tasted great but the prices were a little much. We would much rather go to Five Guys for a burger.
mediocre burgers. After eating at Hires I will never go back. My burger at Hires was grossly overcooked and I had to reassemble it because it was haphazardly put together. I never found a server or manager to fix it for me. I stepped in a puddle of soda right in front of the door way that no one had bothered to clean up. I have had much better experiences at Crown Burger.
Good Burgers. If you want a good burger Hires Big H has about the best burgers in the Salt Lake City area. They are 10 times better then Astro Burger or Crown Burger, or Carls Jr. Or Sonic. They aren't the best burgers i've ever had but it is hard to beet there burgers.
Hires Real Big H. Excellent service, best burgers in town for sure. AAA++++++++AA+++
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I haven't been to Hires in 8 years because of my first experience. My wife and I gave it another try recently, only to be dissapointed. Don't get me wrong, Hires has a good burger. However, I simply could not get over the tiny uncomfortable tables, gray walls, filthy floor, lack of music, and terrible service. Why have a wait staff if a) they don't get drinks before your order, b) they take forever, c) you still have to wait at the register, d) none of the tables are pre-bussed?
The burgers are good; the buns are excellent. Our cheese fries were soggy and cooked in stale oil. I was never offered a refill on a rootbeer that was over $2, nor did our "waitress" return to do anything more than drop of the ticket.
The experience reminded me of eating in the mall, only with a carpeted floor. There is no conceiveable order to the table layout, and there's no sign advising first-timers whether to wait or just take a seat. The cashier is also the host, and just points in the general direction of an empty table. Menus are left at the tables regardless of having a waitress that could take them. Portions are small compared to those of competitors, and I felt I really didn't get the experience that the price warranted.
The atmosphere is non-existent. There are a few pictures of classic cars on the walls in arranged in no conceivable order. As I mentioned the walls are gray (and cinderblock). Ceiling tiles show signs of leakage. Tables are haphazardly positioned around the room.
Hires has great potential in its large menu and freah ingredients. However, the atmosphere and quality of service leave much to be desired.
Yummy Burgers.
I'd have to say, I really like Big Hires H burgers, but the wait makes them a little more on the average side.
If you have time and are a little more patient, then it would be worth the wait. Delicious burgers, a little costly as well, be willing to shell a little extra dollars.
Prices went up, portions went down.. Hires used to be one of my favorite places for a burger, but lately they have been so bad that I can't remember why I liked them in the first place. The burgers are tasty but more often than not they are overcooked, the service is never better than ok (and often it is absolutely horrible), wait times for a hamburger and fries frequently exceed 25 minutes, and the price/portion ratio is lower than ever. You don't get nearly the amount of food you pay for; a full order of onion rings for example (I don't recall the price but I believe it exceeds $3) netted me 4 rings last time. An order of fries yields about 20 fries, half of those being burnt ends. Get the hot fudge brownie sundae if you need to lose a tooth; often the brownie is so hard that you need to cut it with a knife. You can have a pleasureable experience at Hires, but lately that seems to be ever more infrequent.
best fries in the state. it's about time; someone started selling old fashioned french fries again. all these other places sell the newer frozen version,blah,no flavor thank you hires for putting real fresh potato's back on a menu..
Great Food / but not the best prices. Hires has (so far) the best Shakes, my fav. is the raspberry. Their fries and Halibut sandwich are really good also. The only thing that I don't care for, is how long it takes to get your food(even just a shake, it usually takes 5-10 minutes). They are a little pricey for a burger place. But still good! :) Besides that, the only other thing I don't care for is trying to get into/ or out of the parking lot(it can be a bit of a pain).
classic drive-in food. The burgers, fries, and shakes are very good here -generous, fresh and filling. But you must try the grilled ham and cheese with a frosty mug of RB sitting in your car on a sunny winter day - nothing beats it. Be adventurous with the menu - you'll find good things whatever you choose.
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It looks like there is a new Miley Cyrus on the loose -- one who uses her star power wisely to defend the innocent and make public outcries for justice. On Jan. 2, 2013, the teen scene celebrity took to Twitter to defend pop music singer Justin Bieber and attack the morals of overly enthusiastic paparazzi photographers like those who played a role in the death of royal family member Princess Di.
After one of them was killed chasing the Bieb's exotic car while he was driving the Ferrari down the highway in Los Angeles on New Year's Day, she took to Twitter to share her thoughts about the tragic incident. Could the Disney princess finally be growing up and becoming a better role model to other celebrities, twenty-somethings, and teens?
If one reads some of her latest tweets they might think yes. In them, Cyrus appears to be a new woman of sorts.
Normally, the only celeb gossip stories written about her are ones where she gets herself involved with celebrity scandals. But lately, she's also been using the social media website to talk about trending topics in social issues.
In 2012, the Disney princess started to speak out for animal rights. Adopting pets became her pet project and she started to speak out for more important reasons than to advance her own fame through notoriety.
Starting the 2013 year right, she tweeted, "Hope this paparazzi/[Justin Bieber] accident brings on some changes in '13 Paparazzi are dangerous! Wasn't Princess Di enough of a wake up call?!"
Princess Diana, a world-famous humanitarian, had been killed in a car accident back in 1997 when her sons Prince William and Prince Harry were both very young. 20-year-old Cyrus, being from a famous family, was moved by the incident. As the daughter of country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus, she apparently has some level of emotional recall about the tragic incident that happened long before her birth.
A freelance paparazzi agent chasing Justin Bieber's Ferrari down the road died in a fatal car crash on Jan. 1. The paparazzo's accident is now causing star celebs to rally and make a public outcry that legislative acts be put into place related to photo journalists who pursue celebrities.
"The chaos that comes with the paparazzi acting like fools makes it impossible for anyone to make safe choices," Cyrus wrote about the death on Twitter. Regarding the incident, Huffington Post further confirmed, "CNN reports that after learning the news of the death of the photographer, Bieber offered his prayers for the man, but also called for change in the way the paps conduct themselves."
Justin Bieber himself added, "Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photographers themselves." Bieber, like Cyrus, is also a pet friendly celebrity.
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In response to overwhelming support by NCAA Division II coaches, the American Football Coaches Association began publishing a Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll in 2000.
Prior to 2000, there was no coaches' polls for NCAA Division II. The regional poll had been used to rank teams for consideration for the NCAA playoffs.
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The Division II poll follows the same basic format as the USA Today Coaches' Poll. The 2012 Division II Board of Coaches will have 30 voters representing all Division II conferences, as well as independent schools.
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Forty-eight schools spent at least one week ranked in the 2011 AFCA Division II Coaches' Poll ... Ten schools were ranked in the Top 25 all 13 weeks the poll was released in 2011 (Abilene Christian (Texas), Bloomsburg (Pa.), Delta State (Miss.), Kutztown (Pa.), Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Kearney, North Alabama, Northwest Missouri State, St. Cloud State (Minn.) and Washburn (Kan.)) ... Eventual 2011 national champion Pittsburg State was unranked at the beginning of the 2011 season ... Since the AFCA Division II Coaches' Top 25 Poll debuted in 2000, Grand Valley State has been ranked No. 1 for 88 weeks ... The other 11 schools which have appeared No. 1 in the AFCA Division II Coaches' Top 25 Poll are Valdosta State (20), Northwest Missouri State (17 weeks), Delta State (11), Minnesota-Duluth (eight), North Alabama (five), Pittsburg State (five), Saginaw Valley State (three), Abilene Christian (one), Central Washington (one), Colorado State-Pueblo (one) and North Dakota (one) ... Grand Valley St. owns the record for the most consecutive weeks ranked in the AFCA Division II Coaches' Top 25 Poll, which stands at 138. Northwest Missouri St. holds the record for being ranked the most times in the AFCA Division II Coaches' Poll at 151 weeks out of a possible 161 since 2000.


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Breakfast at a coffee shop nearby, where keith often works from, as he did this morning. I ate and played on the playbook while he did whatever it is he does. Afterwards we went to a park, Keith did some more work, went for lunch and had a pastrami sandwich, went to the ferry building, some more work while I enjoyed the waterfront. Having a laptop with 3G is convenient. Its allows him to work from anywhere, so we were able to moving around all day, while he was still able to his get work done.
Some random history for today, Leavenworth Street (Keith's St.) is not named after General Leavenworth (who's namesake is given to leavenworth prison, fort leavenworth etc in kanas) which was my assumption, but after Alcalde Leavenworth (spanish pronunciation al-cal-day, alcalde was equivalent to a magistrate) of San Francisco. Also Geary Street is named after Alcalde Geary, who became the first mayor of SF.
We got tickets to the Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino concert tonight at the fillmore, (of fame for being a writer on 30 rock, the daily show, doing hilarious standup, youtube famous, playing Troy on the show Community and now rapper). It was a pretty good show, he is a hard working guy and the effort shows. He opens for himself doing his standup routine, then there was a (pre-recorded, shown on screen) facetime call with james murphy formerly of LCD soundsystem, and then he gets a facetime call from his future self where he goes off stage to meet himself and its shown on screen (hard to explain, but funny in the Troy and Abed way), then he comes back on stage and it kicks into the Childish Gambino part of the concert. Also, its funny that he is very much a #stuffwhitepeoplelike rapper, probably the only rap concert you can go to and see someone wearing a Drupal tshirt.


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I have been doing dome work with the above mentioned. It is mostly nice and easy to get working. A lot of the problems I have encountered are down to 2 things - the rather interesting active directory we have in place at uni and an interesting habit of server2003 not always installing the same way on different machines.
I am playing, sorry working, on a quad processor with hyper threading, which is rather a nice toy to have for the summer. I generally remote desktop to it, as it sits in a machine room. Shame that the air con would be an added bonus. On it I have two virtual machines, each of which is running terminal services to provide students with access to software they would have if they were in the labs without having to physically clutter the place up. I may stick a third one on, so they can have access to a pre-configured linux box too. The rest of the box is serving a dotNetNuke site for a Community of Practice, and a Moodle site for a general school community/discussion forum/collaborative note building environment.
One of the virtual servers (2003) was not a happy bunny to start with - it would fall over regularly. Well, actually not regularly or it might have been easier to solve, but often. Both seem stable now though, although it took a while to get them to agree to be in the right domain and stay there. Currently the main box has email (smtp) issues. It can see the mail server, but can't connect to it. Another machine I tested on could see the mail server, and could send email to it via OE, but can't connect to it directly. Yet another can connect to it just fine. This is one of the main reasons I avoid doing network related stuff whenever I can - it is all just too variable unless you have absolute control over all the intermediate boxes!
oh for the love of god this blog system sucks - get the tab order vaguely right will ya?
Anyway - I have only just found this handy blog entry http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/01/15/58918.aspx which points to http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe which is a lil driver and control panel to allow you to mount iso format files as CDs under XP. And it seems to work too...
Not only is the new blog site at theSpoke slow, ugly and generally horrible, it also insists that if you speak English you must speak US English. I don't. Well, I could. I could mis-spell stuff and generally bastardize the language. But I don't. And I seriously object to someone making US English the only choice on a list with loads of other languages. Arrogant Americans!
[edit]This isn't even a case of laziness. On the blog settings pages you can choose UK English - so my blogs can be in English instead of Yank. But my profile doesn't let me speak English, only Yank. So it is clearly an attempt to annex the people of the UK. Go Yank someon elses will ya?[/edit]
Ah well I better maintain my account because I want to enter IC 2006. *yawn* maybe one of the pages will load properly by the time that starts.
Oh and what is with the admin pages being a nice steely grey while blogs and forums are suicide inviting blackness? Took a while to navigate back out from the nice pages too, which is a cool touch.
The nice chap who gave an unauthorised interview to the BBC about the sexed up dossier (again I say 'current' is definately a more sexed up version than 'imminent') was found dead in the woods, apparently (or more precisely allegedly, as it doesn't seem at all apparent) having committed suicide.
Robin Cook, the guy who resigned from office because of the (probably illegal, but who seems to care now?) invasion of Iraq has died of, apparently natural causes.
Mo Mowlem is critically ill, and is a fierce opponent of the Iraqi invasion (and does it worry anyone else that you don't find any news story about her being ill on the BBCs web site?)
How many of the Blair toadies who supported his little adventure have become suddenly ill or died? I can't think of one. I guess he would probably say that that is divine intervention.
Loads of general silliness over at the fansite type official news place thing.
in which Dr. Marsden is quoted as saying:
"we have eight planets and only an object bigger than Mars could be considered to be a planet in the future".
on the grounds that "...the disruption that would be caused to accepted thought would, ultimately, provide a more accurate understanding of space. "
Great. So, in order to better understand space (which I am fairly sure is the bit in between the planets, and beyond them, of course) we should decide that not only is Pluto not a planet, but neither is Mars (as it is not bigger than Mars)
Glad that's been cleared up then. Presumably under this definition the Sun is also a candidate planet.
While on the topic, it might be worth thinking about the fact that we are, as far as I am aware, in an ongoing state of emergency in the UK. Consequently, due to some very poorly thought out (one might say knee-jerk) legislation brought into effect last year (the Civil Contingencies act) ministers (and anyone they appoint for the purpose) can make laws up as they go along. So are the things Blair has been saying recently already law? As far as I can tell there is no prescribed wording needed for things to be laws under the Civic Contingencies act, so I guess they are. On a side note of course, this presumably means that if Blairs kids don't go to bed when they are told, they are probably committing criminal offences. But there is nothing new there...
OK, so it looks as though Blair is making the law up as he goes along, having passed a law which lets him do so. Wouldn't it have been sensible to change the law he also just got enacted which makes it a crime to incite religious hatred before starting to incite religious hatred? Maybe that would be too far thinking of him. Anyway, as far as I can see, it no longer makes any difference whether the invasion of Iraq was legal in international terms - Blair is breaking his own laws almost as far as he can make them up. And he plans to retire from parliament. At which point he will no longer have a privileged position, and any cop who fails to arrest him and his co-conspirators should probably be arrested themselves for dereliction of duty.
None of that will happen of course, because the British, in their usual way, will go, "A new law huh? does it make sense? let's see... nope. Then we will just ignore it."
Mind you, I guess GCHQ will now monitor my every electronic footfall weighing up whether I am a deep seated apologist for terrorism. After all, I wear sandals, have long hair and a beard, and have been known to contribute to such scary organisations as GreenPeace. The writing is on the wall... I don't much fancy gaol, or at least I don't much fancy the intimate relations with the other inmates. Gaol itself seems like quite a nice idea, if they will let me have an internet connection...
ahem, oh yes, I just wanted to say how 'totally awesome' the Dawn and Drew show is. http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/
If you are over 18, not easily offended, and have some time to spare catching up on the 123 or so shows already made to date, I highly recommend it. Drew is a web designer, so, hey, he belongs in a tech(y) blog thing. In fact, I have to say I rather like their web site, so Go Drew!
At the moment Dawn is offering a picture of her boobs in exchange for a dollar - they are hoping to get enough money to buy a car. Some strange sounding thing, I don't think we have them here in the UK. The model that is, not cars, obviously. We have lots of them. Way too many actually.
It's funny, most of their conversations sound a lot like many of the conversations I have with female fiends. That was a genuine typing mistake, by the way. Insert an R in the appropriate place, and move on.
Dawn has a brilliant range of emotion-laden voices, and her evil laugh is excellent. I almost wish I lived in Wisconsin so I could pop round and see them (except of course they have pointed out how much they don't like drop-ins - a sentiment I heartily agree with).
Ahhh... actually Dawn reminds me very much of a couple of my early girlfriends. And I am just no starting to realise why my mum perhaps didn't like them... although they didn't cuss as much as Dawn does.
Anyway - Podcasting. A great way of letting the world know who you are and what you are about, if you have interesting stuff to witter on about, the enthusiasm to keep doing the shows, and enough money to pay for the bandwidth for people to download your stuff.
So this one is. Just in case anyone came here to see what I was writing about it is down there, under this one ;-)
Now, as this is about UK life and employment - does anyone know what the ratio of applicants to lecturering posts is? I only ask, cos one day I intend to give up studying in the style of "costing me money" and go for researching in the style of "paying me money" (albeit not a huge amount, if you talk to lecturers about it...) and also allowing me to warp fragile young academic minds... erm, I mean teach. Well lecture. There is still debate at my Uni as to whether lecturers should teach or not. Generally the opinion appears to be 'not' although there are some stirling exceptions, many to be found in the rather lovely Cybernetics Dept (who still haven't got back to me about whether I am being offered a PhD studentship or not, so I am assuming not, and will be making pointed comments at some point next week about the whole 'not-letting-candidates-know' thing).
In October I will be starting my MSc Informatics. That should be interesting, and the dissertation project I have lined up should be both practical and useful (if, of course, it works). However, there is some doubt as to whether I will be able to do it, as it was intially conceived as being for a MSc by research, and my funding is for a taught MSc. Funny things, research funding bodies. Will fund a non-research degree, won't fund a non-research degree. Hey ho.
In the meantime I am back at 'school' to help develop the online community for the School of Systems Engineering. This promises to be intensely interesting, and actually quite challenging when one considers the range of different things the network is to support, and the range of different types of people who will be using it. My job, as currently envisaged, is to do the learning support aspects, while someone else gets to do the networking side. This suits me, as networking, imho, is a yawn. Doing stuff people will know they are using however, is a buzz. Of course, it is also the public side, and as such, when either my bit (ahem, *if*) or the networking bit go wrong, it will always look to the numptie user like it is my bit. So I have the fun of making the presentation layer robust enough that it can laugh in the face of the actual underlying system going pear shaped.
Bad news on the computer front, after my machine decided to trash its hard disk and resolutely refused to let me get anything back off it, it turns out that the CD of my project work is also dodgy, so now I will have to try and cobble together the stuff tht was supposed to be on it from the few bits on my Uni network drive and bits I had previously emailed to people who, hopefully, still have them in their email system...
*sigh* and I thought the course was over...
Still, on the bright side, I am still apparently in the running for the research assistant's post. I really want that job.
So... Office. Installs OK, as one would expect. But won't activate because I have activated it on another machine. Apparently. Reformatting qualifies as having a new machine now huh?
So... install Access (my Office is standard not pro) fully expecting somehow that the same would not apply, because that would be far too consistent. I was right. Access (which had also been installed before the fatality) can activate just fine.
Explain this to me somebody? Microsoft support just helpfully tell me to ring a (chargeable) phone number when they know a) I don't have a phone and b) that their software gives a freephone number. I consider this less than helpful and certainly not supportive.
Worse, when this is pointed out to them, rather than an apologetic note, or even a "Well tough that is all we can suggest" in reply, the silence is deafening.
In the near future I am likely to be back in a position of influencing purchasing decisions. This incident, coupled with my previous experience of paid for support with MS makes it highly unlikely that I will talk my employers into purchasing MS products if they have any preference for osmething else. Shame really, as over the last few years I had become quite an advocate of their stuff...
Stupid, short sighted, and definately back to the old-fashioned who gives a toss about the customer framework they used to use. I knew the new customer focus I had seen over the last two years was too good to be true.
Tomorrow I have an exam on Machine Intelligence. A mixture of AI philosophy, learning systems (especially learning classifier systems, given that is the lecturer's bent), support vector machines, independant component analysis, hidden markov chains (oops, forgot that one - maybe I should find the notes...). Should be quite a good laugh, both the lecturers responsible for it tend to ask interesting questions.
Later in the week I have the oh so tedious linear algebra - how can they possibly make that a final year subject? Probably fail it now of course! All he covered were basic coordinate transformations, affine transformations, perspective and pseudo-inverse least squares. Unless he writes the questions in hebrew I should be ok (well, ok any language other than English may mess me up)
And then Modern Heuristics. How big is this problem? How would you go about tackling it? Coupled with less modern methods such as simplex. Again, this should not be exactly hard, though I really should get round to finding out what the methods other than the simplex methods we covered - somehow they have escaped my memory. I think I know the methods, but can't put names to them, which is always a problem in exams when they ask you to do something a specific way.
Anyway. Much more important, my island is growing well in InselKampf and my character in Adventure Quest continue to grow in stature and statistics. I don't really know why I play AQ though - it is really very samey most of the time, although the most recent build has introduced some cool stuff including the ability to mix teleport potions.
Real life role-playing (though not live action) continues unabated, with last night being a most-excellent Lord of the Rings campaign, as run by Dave. I am a hobbit, and ooooh boy you don't want to mess with me! Well especially if you are a warg or orc, because I have developed slaying wargs and orcs as a bit of a hobby.
The other game is Five Rings, in which I am playing a scout. So hard to do the honour thing when the duty thing says to take the information back to the boss and let him organise the fight. Especially when you have daredevil as a flaw, and so like to bundle in :-) On the other hand, being aspiritual in a world of mythic monsters and arcane lore is an interesting experience...
Not that I did anywhere near as well as I could have done. My heartfelt congratulations go to Isaac (one of the three of us who finished the Intelligent Systems course) who got the best overall BSc prize. Sound man. And also gratz to all those who won the various and assorted other prizes, especially Mark, whose project fairly rocked.
My project was sucky. I know that. My exam performance was far short of my expectations. On the other hand, I did win a prize for best performance in Machine Intelligence, which is fitting for the course, and in terms of degree classification at least nobody can tell I didn't do as well as Isaac (I got a 1st, somehow).
So, now it is time to find out whether I can get that Research Assistant post or funding for one of the postgrad courses...
It was given by Phil Stears (who blogs over at http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/PhilipStears/MyBlog.aspx ) and I have to say it was very well done. I don't praise presentations very often, as I normally find them dull and slow, but even though I knew something about the content of this one, Phil managed to make it interesting and paced it well.
On the other hand, I ran into a nasty bug in VS C# express beta2. I was playing with some matrix code from http://www.codeproject.com and whilst the implementation looks fine, and works fine, if I attempted to look at the contents of the matrices whilst debugging, the IDE would generate errors (including having some elements of the array blank, and of course needing to report to MS about how nasty the world was being to it) and subsequently would remember all sorts of errors even when the code had been quite radically changed. Restarting the IDE cleared these, but it made development really really sucky for quite a while. It also started throwing up errors in the automatically generated stuff, which was what really alerted me to it being a problem with the IDE and not my code...
On a much more positive note, I have a job interview for a research Assistant post next week, which is probably being rescheduled so as not to clash with the external examinators (exxxammmminnatte..., you will be exxamminnnatted!!!), School photo, degree results and free beer. I hope I get it, because it will nicely complement one of the MScs I would like to do, is working on a subject I have a rather deep interest in, I could do with the cash, and of course, I am easily the best candidate. Ok, so I don't know that last bit, as I only know one other person who has applied and he is just as good a candidate as me, but I would be extremely good at the job.
May the oldest man win, is all I can say.