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tcpip, what exactly do you do? ("Something with computers"). Most of my working day is spent trying to get "big iron" cluster installs for big science projects. Most recently it's been LAPACK, ATLAS, NUMPY, SCIPY and, quite from leftfield, Schrodinger. Vaguely related to the latter is news of colourful transgenic mouse brains; brainbows they call them. Of a more amusing variety is a video of "the day the routers died". Recently I have also been taking advantage of the high $AUD vs low $USD to purchase a number of decent O'Reilly (and other) IT books from Amazon; I manage to get through a lot of these. Six more days until my presentation at Securecon
Whilst it is generally hard to get too excited about the Federal election, the last several months of opinion polls have been pretty stable and predicting a wipe-out for the Government. Pollbludger reports that even the safest Tory seats are under the hammer. Indications that they are completely falling apart include Tony Abbot losing the plot yesterday and Kevin Andrews involved in conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Gillard this morning indicated the "big difference" items between Labor and the Coalition being climate change, industrial relations and the Iraq war in an attempt to hose-down apparent similarities in policy.
Gave a presentation last Sunday at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on "Borderlines: The Theology of the Platonic Philosophers". Normally philosophy and theology, despite their universal application, are quite distinct with the former based on verification and the latter on revelation. However by using an ontology of the forms, deductive logic and rationalist epistemology, various Platonic philosophers in history were able engage in what can only be described as philosophically-grounded theology. The presentation I gave a month ago "Women in Philosophy : Philosophy of Women" is also available (doc file). At some stage I really should combine all these into a single publication (and get them out of .doc format).
Finished up our short Decipher: LoTR game last Sunday. Next up will probably be Legend of the Five Rings using their rather charming Way of the Ratling (excerpt, pdf) and RuneQuest's old "Land of Ninja" and GURPS Japan. I like Lo5R's task resolution system ("roll and keep") but will be reversing the method for knowledges (add stat to pool, keep skill). Also have recently purchased a small mountain (over fifty items) of ancient RuneQuest (including a signed first edition, Trollpak, Big Rubble, Pavis etc) and Call of Cthulhu (including Mask of Nyarlathotep, Spawn of Azothoth, Green and Pleasant Land) material.
tcpip, what exactly do you do? ("Something with computers"). Most of my working day is spent trying to get "big iron" cluster installs for big science projects. Most recently it's been LAPACK, ATLAS, NUMPY, SCIPY and, quite from leftfield, Schrodinger. Vaguely related to the latter is news of colourful transgenic mouse brains; brainbows they call them. Of a more amusing variety is a video of "the day the routers died". Recently I have also been taking advantage of the high $AUD vs low $USD to purchase a number of decent O'Reilly (and other) IT books from Amazon; I manage to get through a lot of these. Six more days until my presentation at SecureconWhilst it is generally hard to get too excited about the Federal election, the last several months of opinion polls have been pretty stable and predicting a wipe-out for the Government. Pollbludger reports that even the safest Tory seats are under the hammer. Indications that they are completely falling apart include Tony Abbot losing the plot yesterday and Kevin Andrews involved in conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Gillard this morning indicated the "big difference" items between Labor and the Coalition being climate change, industrial relations and the Iraq war in an attempt to hose-down apparent similarities in policy.
Gave a presentation last Sunday at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on "Borderlines: The Theology of the Platonic Philosophers". Normally philosophy and theology, despite their universal application, are quite distinct with the former based on verification and the latter on revelation. However by using an ontology of the forms, deductive logic and rationalist epistemology, various Platonic philosophers in history were able engage in what can only be described as philosophically-grounded theology. The presentation I gave a month ago "Women in Philosophy : Philosophy of Women" is also available (doc file). At some stage I really should combine all these into a single publication (and get them out of .doc format).
Finished up our short Decipher: LoTR game last Sunday. Next up will probably be Legend of the Five Rings using their rather charming Way of the Ratling (excerpt, pdf) and RuneQuest's old "Land of Ninja" and GURPS Japan. I like Lo5R's task resolution system ("roll and keep") but will be reversing the method for knowledges (add stat to pool, keep skill). Also have recently purchased a small mountain (over fifty items) of ancient RuneQuest (including a signed first edition, Trollpak, Big Rubble, Pavis etc) and Call of Cthulhu (including Mask of Nyarlathotep, Spawn of Azothoth, Green and Pleasant Land) material.