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Its been a while since my I last wrote that I was thinking of building a learner to predict AFL game results. Obviously with the finals starting this week I’m a bit late in the season but oh well! I can still simulate the season using the data I’ve collected. I’ve developed a number of […]

Andy acquired a new toy at work: a Segway HT! It was only fitting that I visit and give it a spin! Let me just say, the Segway is one impressive ride — I want one!

Weee!: Me riding the Segway HT.

Cruising: Video of Andy riding the Segway (DivX, 6.6MB)
The Segway website also has a proof-of-concept […]

Over the past few months I’ve been wanting to put Windows XP back on my main PC for SAS work. Swapping plugs between computers is just too painful! Unfortunately when partitioning I created too many primary partitions and now I can’t make any more. Unfortunately Windows won’t install on a extended partition. The […]

Apparently you are supposed to run the etc-update command regularly to keep your Gentoo Linux system healthy. hmm. This was likely the reason for my udev dying a couple of weeks ago. I must say - I’m less impressed with Gentoo now! Oh well, emerge is still the best package management system I’ve seen so […]