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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Finishing unfinished business in the NT
Aboriginal affairs in the NT has always been a mess. It certainly became worse after the 1976 introduction of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) and the replacement of jobs with “sit down money”.
Then came a quarter-decade rule by the CLP, who were hamstrung both by the Act (supported largely by insipid latte-sippers) and [...] Continue reading
Musos and Masters
This essay by Zed Shaw resurfaced on Proggit today. Shaw’s essay talks about mastery, as seen from the perspective of martial arts: After reading books on martial arts history for years, and studying everything I can, I started to see … Continue reading
Posted in Geeky Musings
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Moving a database from Wordpress to Wordpress Mu
Some rough notes, before I forgot what I did. mysqldump –default-character-set=”latin1″ -elt database_name | sed ‘s/wp_/wp_{new blogs id}_/’ > database_name.sql –default-character-set is required because of MySQL’s unrestrained enthusiasm for fucking up encoding by assuming everything is encoded in utf8. Would … Continue reading
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A stray thought about exam questions
Having just finished the final units I need to qualify for an undergraduate degree, the topic of examinations is still fresh in my mind. Generally these fall into two categories: open-book and closed-book; with two major categories of question: multiple-choice and short-answer.
The exact mix of open/closed and MC/SA will vary from professor to professor and [...] Continue reading
Forgive me, Linode!
Recently I’ve opened a new account with Linode in anticipation of moving a server across to them. So far they’ve been pretty good. My current provider is Slicehost, who are also excellent and whose reliability has been utterly flawless — … Continue reading
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Dear Woolworths
Stop trying to make me use your crappy “self serve” checkouts.
I noticed you installed them a few months back. A few weeks ago, out of curiousity, I tried it.
It was just that: a curiousity. My experience went as follows:
I was reminded of my first job as a checkout operator, which I utterly detested. It was [...] Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cross Posted from Club Troppo
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