Monthly Archives: September 2008

ICPC 2008 Final Results

The 2008 ACM South Pacific Programming Contest Results have been confirmed: my team’s come 3rd overall (as expected). We find out whether or not we’ve achieved a wild card position in the World Finals in December.

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A brief (though complete) history of “Mehffort”

For the benefit of those who were intersted, Mehffort is a portmanteau of meh and effort, and is a very popular word in the semester 2, 2008 Maclab dialect of English. It is used to convey one’s lack of motivation … Continue reading

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ICPC 2008 (huge success)

The ACM ICPC South Pacific Region was on yesterday, and was great fun (as usual). My team this year, the Mehffort Musketeers consisted of Alex Berry (who’ll be competing in the Google Code Jam regionals soon as well), Michael Ford … Continue reading

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Large Hadron Collider

I found this very useful news service today, at HasTheLHCDestroyedTheEarth.com. May you find it informative.

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Debian Lenny+1: Cool for Cats?

So the new version of Debian is to be known as Squeeze, eh? Does anyone else think of a certain 1970′s British New Wave group?

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