Sam's gone off to a materials science conference, where she will be presenting some of her work. This means that she's not here. Somehow, a couple of years ago this wouldn't have mattered. Wow.
Before she left, I tried to update her Windows XP laptop. I'd forgotten how strange windows is. I needed to install three install programs before I could actually install any updates.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
The importance of micro-optimisations
Sam and I bought some wardrobes and a desk from a post-doc who's moving off to England to take up a position as lecturer. This is good: no longer will our clothes horse have to do double duty as our entire clothes storage space. The bad is, of course, that we needed to get the furniture home ourselves.
Now, getting a removalist/furniture taxi would've cost about $140. Hiring a ute for the day, cost $69. Plus $16 for insurance, which seemed prudent since I've never driven in Sydney, or driven a ute, and the last time I drove was over a year ago. Plus 1.5% stamp duty, for some reason. Plus petrol.
So all up it cost around $100, an important, necessary, saving of $40, and now we have to lug some heavy furniture up a couple of flights of stairs.
I commit this note to self to the boundless memory of the intertron: Next time just pay someone to do it!
Now, getting a removalist/furniture taxi would've cost about $140. Hiring a ute for the day, cost $69. Plus $16 for insurance, which seemed prudent since I've never driven in Sydney, or driven a ute, and the last time I drove was over a year ago. Plus 1.5% stamp duty, for some reason. Plus petrol.
So all up it cost around $100, an important, necessary, saving of $40, and now we have to lug some heavy furniture up a couple of flights of stairs.
I commit this note to self to the boundless memory of the intertron: Next time just pay someone to do it!
Thursday, July 5, 2007
So, on Friday Sam and I went to see the new Transformers movie with SpockSoc. And it was good. Who'd have thought that battles between huge, city destroying robots could be so cinematic?
I'm learning dvorak, now that I've got a lappy that I can move the keys around on. Except, curiously, for the 'b' key, which is different to every other key on the keyboard. I'm now at that awkward phase where my fingers kind of know where they're meant to go, just as long as I don't think too hard about it :)
Things I've recently learnt:
I'm learning dvorak, now that I've got a lappy that I can move the keys around on. Except, curiously, for the 'b' key, which is different to every other key on the keyboard. I'm now at that awkward phase where my fingers kind of know where they're meant to go, just as long as I don't think too hard about it :)
Things I've recently learnt:
- Inversive geometry is really about the pole-polar relationship in a projective space.
- The time taken to pack up a flat and move is dwarfed by the time taken to unpack.
- My laptop bag is sufficiently waterproof to not kill my laptop in the rain. Yay!
- It's not too hard to to Test Driven Development in C with the check package
- In related news, I'm a much less proficient C programmer than I was five years ago.
- Two-fingered tapping on my touchpad generates a Mouse2 click, and 3 fingered tapping generates a Mouse3 :).
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