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Movember again

So it’s Movember again and I can’t believe how little I’ve blogged since this time last year (must finish all those draft blog entries :-)
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Micro-modelling

It occurs to me that just as there is value in micro-formats (structured data embedded in HTML using existing HTML syntax and well-known conventions), there is also value in micro-models: models embedded in code (e.g., Java) using existing Java syntax (e.g., annotations).
The key advantages are model and code are in a single place and are [...]

Wireless again

A while back I lost wireless access in the home. In a happy accident I was wandering through Harvey Norman at Indooroopilly today when I noticed they were selling Linksys WAG54GP2s for $93.01 – that’s ADSL2+, 802.11G, and VOIP in the one (discontinued) box at a very sweet price (hurry – they only [...]

Crisis in Ragan

Circa 1998, and tired of giving the demo live (usually with little notice), we filmed Crisis in Ragan (sic). This is the short version for CSCW ‘98.

Vale Movember 2007

Many thanks to all my generous Movember sponsors who contributed a total of $499! As of Dec 3 our team of seven raised a total of $2,099.00 (late donations can still be made).

Movember 30

The last of Movember :-(

The Mo Bros

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A plan for tomorrow…

Movember 29

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Movember 28

Derek Smalls — Mo-hero:
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Debugging lessons

For the past 6 weeks or so I’ve been trying to track down an elusive bug in my SNOMED classifier. The difficulty has been that it only manifest with very large input sets (I only managed to reduce it down to about 350,000 concept definitions). This meant lots of large data-structures and long [...]

Movember 27

Time’s nearly up