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Mon, 11 Apr 2005
So much to blog, so little time
An extraordinarily busy two weeks, some high points (which I'll touch on) and some low points (which I won't bore you with)
Had a group assignment due in for COMP6311 which was intersting, albiet a lot of work. Was in a good group - four of us in total, Tony Breeds (of LCA fame), Aaron, who I started studies with last year and Puthick that we met in the first tutorial. While we all contributed, Tony and Puthick in particular really pulled it out of the hat I reckon. Good to have that handed in and behind us.
Have an assignment due on Wednesday for COMP6464 which is pretty cool. We're doing a molecular dynamics simulation using Visual Python to do the 3D visualisation. The first pass was entirely written in Python, we've now had to re-write the computation side of it in C and call from the Python code. This turns out to be remarkably painless, must say I'm getting to quite like Python.
A week or so back I got my copy of Vanessa Rodrigues' debut album, "Soul Project" but have only just now had a chance to give it another spin. Am very impressed. The whole thing just grooves, her keyboard playing chops on the B3 are something else and the originals she's penned are very strong. There are some mp3's linked off here which give but a small taste.
By way of background, Vanessa is mkp's partner so a bunch of us met her when we caught up with Martin at OLS last year. mkp is perhaps best known in Linux circles for the work he's done on the kernel for XFS and Itanium. Something of a hidden side of him though is his own not inconsiderable talent at the B3, there's some of his impressive live work here. Guess theirs is one of the few households in the world where there'd be no arguments about whether another Leslie can be justified :)
Go take a listen...
Received my copy of Make magazine a few weeks back which I've slowly been working though. Style wise it reminds me a bit of Wired but not in a bad way - better S/NR for a start!
There are some pretty cool ideas in there, nothing revolutionary but interesting none the less - it's not going to put Circuit Cellar out of business for example. There was a cartoon at the end that had a nice simple idea for building an electric motor around a C cell battery which I figure I'll try with Rachael. Personally I like dead tree versions of things like this but YMMV, suggest you borrow a copy before signing up.