Monday, July 19th, 2010
I Write Like is a website that analyses a sample of writing and finds the closest match to a famous author's style. Running through a couple of my favourite entries from this blog gives the following result:
I write likeArthur C. ClarkeI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze ...
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
You find the most interesting things trawling through the "Incoming Links" section of the WordPress Admin Dashboard. According to this page at halfdone (I'd never heard of them either), Life of Andrew is the 151st in their list of NZ blogs that are "about something".
I am not entirely ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Boost is a excellent resource for C++ programming, but suffers from inconsistent documentation and a daunting array of sub-projects. Trying to make sense of it all is a fairly serious undertaking. I tried to get my head around it by writing my occasional series of boost blog posts, but now ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
It is not everyday that I awaken to the radio telling me that Civil Defense has been activated due to the imminent arrival of a Tsunami.
Luckily the effects of the Tsunami on New Zealand were slight to non-existent, but not totally unnoticed. The following chart is from the excellent GeoNet ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I have quite a lot of books. I am not a book hoarder, I quite often do purges of books I don't intend to read again, but my bookcases are always overflowing. I have tried various methods of keeping track of what I have read, but nothing really seemed that ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
So I was talking with the team at work and conversation drifted (as it so often does) to My Little Pony.
Just a bunch of guys talking about My Little Pony - nothing weird about that.
But then, mere hours later, a link to this collection of modified My Little Ponies ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
It has irked me for a long time that although the President of the United States wields great power over the rest of the world, only US citizens get to vote. To be brutally honest it irked me a lot more when Bush II was in power, but I approve ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
One of my favourite things about browsing the web on Mondays is seeing what is new over at coverfreak.com, a weekly blog with links to interesting covers of (usually) familar songs. Normally I wouldn't mention it, but this week they have a selection of songs with a New Zealand flavour.
The ...
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