March 2009
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Focusing on the Physical Side
Going into the game we just wanted to focus on the physical side of things against their younger guys. We knew that our running could match theirs, it was just the physical side that we wanted to crash in early, and we did that to get off to a good start.
Shaun Higgins
Reading the Dogs’ new number seven say that cast my mind back two and a half years ago when we were bundled out of...
“There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit...”
– John Gruber at Daring Fireball
Noah Stokes - Front End Developer and Other Crap →
Ajax, motherfuton
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Heathdale Refuses Muslim Student Teacher →
Good ol’ Heathdale (the school where I spent the majority of my time, from prep through to year 12):
A muslim student teacher has labelled a Christian school in Wyndham discriminatory for refusing her a position based on her religion.
But Heathdale Christian College is standing by its decision, saying that as a faith-based school it expects its teachers, including student ones, to...
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“Teenage boys, are you tired of embarrassing questions about when you last...”
– Japan’s Space Scientists Design Odour-Free Underwear (The Courier-Mail)
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Holiday, Death and Destruction
I spent much of the past weekend in Sandy Point, so the little lady and I headed on over to Wilson’s Prom National Park on the first day it was reopened to check it out.
The fires had left the mountains half-covered in a strange red colour, which was quite striking against the unburned parts which survived. Up close, the fields of burned stumps were actually quite beautiful in a strange...
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Australian Internet Blacklist Leaked
The Australian Government’s proposed super-secret internet blacklist has been leaked. From The Age’s report:
But about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites,...
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Why I Hate JSON
I’m not really sure where it came from, but JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) seems to be the latest way to structure data (especially data returned from REST APIs), and I think it’s fucking stupid.
As David Megginson points out, XML, JSON and even LISP s-expressions are equivalent in their expressive power. The problem I have is in the parsing of this information.
All of the major...
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Determining a Parabola with a Vertex and...
So I needed to figure how to come up with a formula for the following graph, given the vertex (i.e. the “turning point”) and the y-intercept.
I remembered the polynomial form from high school, but that only gave me direct control over the y-intercept, and I was able to find the vertex form formula on Wikipedia which gave me the ability to specify a vertex, but gave me no control...
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Stupid Songs in My Head Today #429
Mona by Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2
Eternal Flame by The Bangles
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Twitter = L.O.C.
According to this article, Twitter is worth as much as YouTube because people are interested in what he calls real time, conversational search.
What he’s arguing is that people are interested in finding out what people are saying right now about … well, I’m not sure. Coco Pops? Skittles? Barack freakin’ Obama? I can pretty much guess:
Having delicious Coco Pops for...