The importance of working late

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Now while I’m not particularly happy about my normal coding hours – say, 10pm till 4am – in this particular case they just did me wonders. I have some code, you see, which converts between NSCalendarDate and CSSM_DATEs – don’t worry if this is going over your head, it’s part of the boring, disgusting internal… Read more

25 Most Played Songs

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I figure this might be of interest many years from now, when I try to figure out how many brain cells I lost listening to mindless cacophonous crap. ;) ‘course, I’ve been afraid to write this up for fear of assimilating attributes of any regular MySpace attention-… well, let’s just say “lacking person”… yes, that’s… Read more

Ahhh… yes, now I remember why I hate Word

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I guess it has been well over a year since I last had to use Word much, so my temporary lapse of judgement in deciding to use it again isn’t entirely without excuse. I’m particularly annoyed at it when Track Changes is turned on. It simply stops responding to inputs periodically. Not wanting to delete… Read more

ENT presentation

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Today was that of our ENT presentation. This single, 10-minute presentation represents 30% of the marks for the subject. The concept is simple; our lecturer plays the role of a venture capitalist, and we’re trying to sell him on a startup idea. Any idea we like. Our group was of course borrowing from Rob &… Read more

Damn fancy Google kitchens

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It seems unlikely, nay uncanny, but the evidence is irrefutable – Google’s Sydney office was designed specifically for me. Just me. They’re really too kind. They even include fruit for me to throw at people who try to steal my Smarties. :D