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Freedom Loving Scientist

Welcome to my home on the internet! Everything here is free under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license unless marked otherwise.

This site contains various pieces of writing across my various interests, and spanning several years. You can fork this site on github if you wish.

Melbourne Perl Mongers

Melbourne Perl Mongers
Melbourne Perl Mongers is meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) night, and both Rick Measham and myself will be presenting.

6:30pm Wednesday 8th August
Editure
Level 8
14 Blackwood St
North Melbourne

Effective Procrastination with HiveMinder
If you're like most people, you've got dozens of things that need doing. Work, shopping, chores, programming, hobbies, tax, holidays, bills, and so on. You may have tried to keep a to-do list, but found it rapidly grew to the point of being unmanageable.

Paul Fenwick will demonstrate the use of the free HiveMinder.com to-do service to both manage tasks and to procrastinate effectively, allowing you to focus only on the tasks that really need to be done. We'll see how to manage tasks via the web, via-email, and how to be really efficient via instant messenger.

To conclude, we'll see how it's possible to add new features to HiveMinder and some tricks and tips for doing so.

Microblogging with Jaiku and Net::Jaiku (Rick Measham)
Net::Jaiku - an introduction to microblogging and lifestreaming, plus a bonus: Using microblogging as a development tool.

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The camel's apostrophe

The camel's apostrophe
Jacinta and I have been looking at holiday options recently, including potentially a camel safari in outback Australia. As part of our research, we discovered that greengrocers aren't the only ones who think that an apostrophe is to mark the impeding arrival of the letter 's'. One website featured the following text:

  • Booking's of three or more people for all safaris.
  • Safaris may be cancelled due to unsuitable weather condition's.
  • Safari time's may vary in summer months.
  • Please state any special food requirement's.
  • Price's subject to change.

A suitable reference to Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe has been appropriately dispatched to their webmaster.

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