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Banana Pi
Yay! My Banana Pi computer arrived today, just one week after ordering it online. Very cool. It cost me just AU$ 69.02. The shipping from China was free.It's like the famous Raspberry Pi (which I also...
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Noah and the flood
It's hard to understand why the Christians would promote and make a film about the biblical story of Noah and the flood. It seems to me it should be as much of an embarrassment to them as the creepy...
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my book "flying"
A few days ago I had some ideas to expand a couple of paragraphs in a particular part of my story flying. Not being able to remember exactly where the section was where I wanted to insert it I started...
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first color map of Ceres
NASA has released a map-style image of the surface of the planetoid Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. The image was compiled from pictures taken by the highly successful Dawn robotic...
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fossil fuels, and reducing the need
Almost every technology we have relies upon fossil fuels. We need to work out ways to break that chain of dependency. I don't count using oil to make plastics as an example of a bad thing, but I do see...
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posting a recent short story here because the net is misbehaving
Petby Miriam EnglishPet pointed to a light streaking across the night sky. "Look! A meteor." She didn't actually use the word "meteor" because she had lost her real parents when she was very young and...
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vertigo
Well, this is perfectly horrible. I woke from a nap today with awful vertigo. As I get very bad motion sickness when my vision of out of sync with my inner ear's motion sensors this is especially...
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my RepRap Prusa i3 3d Printer - unboxing
A week ago I bought a RepRap Prusa i3 3D printer kit online from Sunhokey for AUS$360 via PayPal (free shipping). It has already arrived! Just 7 days between order and arrival from China to Queensland...
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writing
This November I decided to write a story I'd mapped out in a fair bit of detail some time back about a young woman who is aspie (has Asperger's syndrome -- that is, she's a high-functioning autistic)....
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Recuperate
I've written a new short story. It's only about three and a half pages long, so... very short story. I enjoyed writing it -- a fun idea, I think.Let me know what you think of...
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Radiolab talks and analysing my stories
Been a while since I blogged here. I should do so more often.It has been my habit for years to eat my meals while listening to a talk, or watching a documentary, or watching a piece of fiction. Lately...
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Kenilworth Community Information Centre
Kenilworth Community Information Centrehttps://www.facebook.com/Kenilworth-Community-Information-Centre-1419018014791094/I've been helping out a bit with getting their facebook page organised.This link...
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Linux is 25 years old
Linus back in the dayLinux was named after him and is pronounced LIN-ucks.Here is Linus on pronunciation.The year was 1991, in August, on the 25th day, young computer student Linus Torvalds first...
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Wacom graphics tablet is go!!!
Yay!!!! After many months of trying to get my Wacom graphics tablet working with this damn computer I have finally done it!First task now: to paint a cover for my novel Insurance.(Crossposted from...
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How to colonise Mars
Elon Musk recently gave a fascinating talk on how to go to mars and maintain a self-sustaining civilisation there.(Edit: fixed the link, which had broken over time.)(Crossposted from...
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I think I have a new favorite film
When Marnie Was There (2014) is a Studio Ghibli film I hadn't heard of previously. It is a beautifully bittersweet story that reminds me of some of my favorite RenPy stories.It adds to, rather than...
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Walkaway
I just finished reading Cory Doctorow's latest book Walkaway. I really enjoyed it. I think it's his best yet. The ideas in it come thick and fast, as they do in all his books, but this one has the most...
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am, pm
Is anybody else confused by the abbreviations "am" and "pm" when applied to 12 o'clock midday and 12 o'clock midnight? It seems to me not only arbitrary and confusing, but actually wrong.The...
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matching a pattern in thesaurus output
There must be a simpler way to do this. I was looking for words similar in meaning to "back" or "previous" or "before" but beginning with the letter "d".My awk is a bit rusty so I used sed, which I...
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odd-even weeks or calculating fortnights
This calculates even weeks, that is, it can calculate fortnights:expr \( `date +%s` / 604800 \) % 2 >/dev/null || echo "even"or if you want odd weeks:expr \( `date +%s` / 604800 + 1 \) % 2...
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