Tony's Diary

Wed, 28 Sep 2005

Blog Meme: File extension.
In trying to avoid Uni I decided to fill in the survey. I don't think the result is accurate ;P You are .pdf  No matter where you go you look the same.  You are an acrobat.  Nothing is more important to you than the printed word.
Which File Extension are You?

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Mon, 12 Sep 2005

On Assignments
In a recent algorithms lecture it was proven that procrastination is the best way of scheduling work (well when you know the payoff, deadlines and have a good estimate of the running time). That certainly explains how it got to be the weekend before my draft thesis is due and I'm still writing it. I don't mean finessing it :-(. It seems I failed to grasp the point about having a good estimate. Bah! enough self-pity time to knuckle down

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Thu, 01 Sep 2005

Appealing?
Well today I was asked when daylight savings comes into effect. After playing with the date command I discovered the following:
tony@balder:~$ date -R -d 'Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:59:59'
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:59:59 +1000
tony@balder:~$ date -R -d 'Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:59:59 + 1 second'
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:00:00 +1100

Which is far more humorous to me than it should be ;P( See I told you all I could space, Now I can warp time). Perhaps that's because unlike Hugh my brain ran out my ears rather than exploding.

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