Everyone thinks that the media team are geeky but I just found this in my mail on the Global Village Stage e-group:

> Oooooooh I want a CZ101!!
CZ101 -- broke the Yamaha strangle-hold and stopped the music biz
from swamping us with DX7's.
Somewhere I've a CZ101 patch editor and library for a ZX Spectrum :-)
--
without a MIDI interface!

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… what Fortran is to me. (According to Len anyway.)

I found (what I think is) a cool way to convert binary to decimal in R today. That being, take your binary number as a vector, one digit per entry. Take another vector of the same length but with the corresponding power of two in it (i.e. the i^th entry will have the entry 2ⁱ. Then multiply the two together (may need to reverse depending on the endian-ness you like) and sum(). The moral of the story: vectorisation is cool.

A cool table that has voice recognition and motion sensors, vodka research, Liverpool University Fortran 90 notes and finally Google Earth KML!

phew!

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So, I’m back to programming Fortran at work. Gah! But it’s probably good for me. Exam results are out. I got a 15 on the discrete maths paper which I thought I aced which is rather annoying. On the other hand I got a 17.2 for Physics 2B. w00t. I just got this e-mail from Nick:

From the QM textbook I'm reading: "A knowledge of Quantum Mechanics is good for your soul, but is of no practical importance for most people. A knowledge of statistics is of vital practicle importance to everyone"

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The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute, cool custom made boots, some history and nerdcore is out!.

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My finger is infected. It hurts. Ouch.

In other news the spanthatworld.com forum broke and thanks to Invision’s shitty business model (“Hey, freeware doesn’t matter we can make big bucks! Screw everyone!”) I’m converting the site over to phpBB (which is nice and OSS.) In doing this I came across a few cool tools. First is a phpBB converter which takes data across from all kinds of forum systems and nice converts it over to phpBB format. Secondly, there is EasyPHP which does a full install of mysql, apache and phpmyadmin on a Windows box in about 5 minutes with no restart. And it just works!

Finally, I am a cam-boy again, the ninepointeightone.net davecam is up here at the moment you’ll have to do a manual refresh every 30 seconds, but I’ll sort that out eventually.

Oh! And really finally… the nerdcore hip hop compillation is out today!

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Yes, it has been a while. Yes I am at work. Yes, I’m drinking too much coffee. On the other hand I found my old webcam at home so you can watch me work here.

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