Weird.? I migrated some of the content from my Massey site here today (so that it doesn’t vanish when the Massey site does), and this (completely unlinked, apart from one from there) blog suddenly gets found.
HawkWings found my quoting tutorial (prepared for the Written Communication for Information Sciences paper at Massey), which has been on [...]
Archive for December, 2005
13 Dec
Obscurity
13 Dec
Universal Student Allowances: A Better Solution
Students’ Associations, like my own ASA and the NZUSA, are continually pushing for a “universal student allowance”. This is quite clearly an unworkable solution – not even the Labour Party is in favour of it – and nor is it a desirable one.
[Note that throughout this document, student refers to tertiary students. Secondary, primary, [...]
13 Dec
After Hours Sign-in Books
A recent Massey Albany announcement:
As part of our Health & Safety requirement it has been necessary to provide after hour sign in books in all multi-storey buildings on campus.These have now been put in place and can be found either by the after hour entry doors or in the case of the Quad A and [...]
13 Dec
Visiting Australia (Passport Requirements)
I’m visiting Australia (just for the day) next week, and realised last night that I foolishly have let my passport reach the stage where it expires in just over two months. I know that many countries require the expiry to be a certain amount of time after arriving (e.g. six months) and wondered if I [...]
13 Dec
Stability of email addresses
Massey’s ITS department have been at it again (see also the comments about their security blunder earlier this year – somewhat patched up now).
Ever since email began, it has been customary for an email address to take the form username@domain – for example, I have a username “ta-meyer” with which I log into Ihug, and [...]
13 Dec
Email Quoting
Like many people, I deal with a lot of email every day. Something that makes it much easier to deal with is when people quote properly. Here are some guidelines (originally prepared for 139.177 / 119.177) for effective email quoting.
13 Dec
Finding libstdc++.so.6
When I tried to build Python 2.4.1 on doublehelix I ran into two problems:
configure wouldn’t complete, saying that it couldn’t run compiled C programs. I looked at the configure script and right before this it had something about not removing this section with autoconf 3.0:
# FIXME: These cross compiler hacks should be removed for Autoconf [...]
13 Dec
The importance of priority
As part of my PhD research, I have to link together a lot of separate components, many of which are running on separate machines, as they’re too much for a single one. You’d think that this was relatively simple, given that a good non-blocking synchronous socket module is part of the standard Python library. [...]
13 Dec
Tagline
I should also explain the tagline, I suppose. Some time back, my Dad asked me about the etymology of “blog”, and said that his best guess was “bullshit, lies, or gossip”.
While not technically correct, it did seem pretty accurate in a lot (not all, of course) of cases. While hopefully this blog won’t contain bullshit, [...]
13 Dec
About
So, what is the purpose of this blog? Basically, it’s replacing the content that’s under “miscellaneous writing” on my Massey website. That’s getting a little unruly, and, more importantly, my time at Massey (10 years!) is just about up, so no doubt that site will get killed at some point.
The material that’s there is a [...]
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