Monthly Archives: March 2008

Coke Price Watch

After noticing the disparity of prices of Coca-Cola on campus at UTas, I decided that it would be a good idea to map out the location of vending machines and their prices. and here is the link If you have … Continue reading

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Tasman Bridge — Earth Hour

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tasman Bridge — Earth Hour, originally uploaded by Christopher Neugebauer. It’s Earth Hour, therefore a large number of Tasmanian … Continue reading

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Case-insensitive String Replacement (in Python)

One feature that Python’s built-in string replacement facilities does not provide is case-insensitive string replacement. This is a reasonably useful construct (that I use fairly frequently in other languages, such as PHP), which I couldn’t find code for after Googling … Continue reading

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Guitar Hero on Commodore 64?!?!?!

I generally have a policy of not allowing Flash onto my website (and sorry if any of you PLOAers object), but this opportunity was hard to pass up. Toni Westbrook has written Shredz64, a Guitar Hero-like-game for the Commodore 64. … Continue reading

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Goodbye, IDS; Hello, TUCS!

Today was the AGM for the UTas Internet Developers’ Society. Other than the usual blather that occurs in AGMs for these sorts of things, we’ve approved a change of name to TUCS (or rather the Tasmania University (union) Computing Society). … Continue reading

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Bridge Photography

I had dinner at my Grandparents’ place last night, they live on the waterfront in Lindisfarne, and as the evening was clear and still, I took an opportunity to go and take some photographs. Here are some of my favourites:

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