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tcpipFollowing my attendance and review of Hawkwind last week, I have attended and reviewed a Leftfield concert, also on Rocknerd. reddragdiva must be surprised at the quantity of externally-produced content, and it ain't over yet. If an interest in space rock, electronica and punk seems to be an unusual combination, I should also mention that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya and I also received tickets from Khat K, to attend the Victorian State Opera opening night of The Magic Flute. A fairly accurate (but atrociously written) summary of plot synopsis and themes is available. We had superb seats a few rows in and central, next to the Austrian ambassador's group, and attended the cast party afterwards. It was a fairly standard version of this romantic fantasy compressed somewhat (thank goodness) from the historical five hours to three. We both preferred the more earthy romanticism of Papageno and Papagena to the supposedly sophisticated and enlighted Tamino and Pamina.
Today attended the LUV-Beginners workshop which featured Alex Gerber giving an excellent presentation on user-experience for newcomers to Linux. On a related note I have started producing content a 'blog dedicated to learning how to program using Pascal on a Linux system. Least anyone think that this is somewhat archaic, read the initial post on why this is actually a good idea (Pascal is retro, but not backward). I intend to spend about two months writing a post a day on this 'blog and then, after editing and friendly advice, port it to Wikibooks, as the existing example is not really satisfactory. Finally, on other IT related news Monash University and the Australian Synchrotron have opened the MASSIVE cluster. They have a nice website which yours truly has worked on.
reddragdiva must be surprised at the quantity of externally-produced content, and it ain't over yet. If an interest in space rock, electronica and punk seems to be an unusual combination, I should also mention that caseopaya and I also received tickets from Khat K, to attend the Victorian State Opera opening night of The Magic Flute. A fairly accurate (but atrociously written) summary of plot synopsis and themes is available. We had superb seats a few rows in and central, next to the Austrian ambassador's group, and attended the cast party afterwards. It was a fairly standard version of this romantic fantasy compressed somewhat (thank goodness) from the historical five hours to three. We both preferred the more earthy romanticism of Papageno and Papagena to the supposedly sophisticated and enlighted Tamino and Pamina.Today attended the LUV-Beginners workshop which featured Alex Gerber giving an excellent presentation on user-experience for newcomers to Linux. On a related note I have started producing content a 'blog dedicated to learning how to program using Pascal on a Linux system. Least anyone think that this is somewhat archaic, read the initial post on why this is actually a good idea (Pascal is retro, but not backward). I intend to spend about two months writing a post a day on this 'blog and then, after editing and friendly advice, port it to Wikibooks, as the existing example is not really satisfactory. Finally, on other IT related news Monash University and the Australian Synchrotron have opened the MASSIVE cluster. They have a nice website which yours truly has worked on.
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Date: 2011-03-19 09:31 pm (UTC)I guess Mozart was a better composer than playwright :)
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Date: 2011-03-22 10:37 pm (UTC)http://massive.vpac.org/services/resources
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Date: 2011-03-19 07:50 pm (UTC)Have you played quake on it yet?
Within a week of the CUBIN research centre opening at UniMelb, someone had:
Played quake on it.
Used it to watch porn on the giant array screen.
Got stoned and used it for fractal zooming.
You gotta render some bondage fairies on it or something.
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Date: 2011-03-19 09:19 pm (UTC)I know, frightfully dull of us...
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Date: 2011-03-19 10:16 pm (UTC)You ripper! Still remember seeing them at the Metro in Sydney in 2000. :)
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Date: 2011-03-20 04:44 am (UTC)Pascal Revival
Date: 2011-03-20 09:39 am (UTC)- Structured programming
- Pointers
- Data structures
- How to avoid GOTO (mostly)
- Recursion (Yeah, not always a good thing)
- File handling
Yes, programmers SHOULD already know the above, but I believe programming in Pascal helps reinforce discipline in programming style.
Re: Pascal Revival
Date: 2011-03-20 10:31 am (UTC)Imagine a person starting with PHP.. I mean it has immediate utility and all, but....