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Tag Archives: 30 days of geek
30 Days of Geek: 18 – Most cringe-worthy geek moment
Ooops, I’ve missed days 16 and 17. Meh. Nothing in particular, but I do have a couple of counts I could make: Various occasions in High School computing classes where I found myself correcting my teacher. Any time when someone … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 15 – A geek experience that changed your life.
So the original topic for this was “Earliest geek experience”. I really couldn’t identify with that one, so I’m going to do something completely different. I’m sorry if this one’s a bit heavy, but it needs to be written. I’d … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 14 – Favourite Computer Conference
Oh. You probably won’t be surprised to hear this one, but the answer is Linux.conf.au the Australasian Free and Open Source Software Conference. I’ve been attending since Melbourne 2008, and have since “been” to Hobart in 2009 and travelled to … Continue reading
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30 Days of Geek: 13 – How did you become such a geek? Career? Personal interest?
I can’t remember not having the traits that I described on day 1, so I guess that means that it’s a combination of personal interest and lifelong obsession. Not much that can be said here
30 Days of Geek: 12 – What area do you want to expand your skills into?
I can’t really think of much to say here, other than that I’d love to continue expanding my skills. As a soon-to-be Ph.D student, I’d love to expand my researching abilities (papers papers whoo!) — hopefully resulting in an excellent … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: Days 10 & 11
So yesterday I was in the air, and unable to do day 10′s post. Luckily they make enough sense combined to combine into a single post. Picture, screenshot and specifications of your primary computer. Apologies for the blurry photo. I’ve … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 09 – What OS/distribution do you run?
I’m a user of UNIX-like operating systems of different persuasions. On my laptop I run Max OS X 10.6. I’m not hugely attached to the Mac platform, for example the vast majority of applications I run are Open Source, or … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 07 – Preferred smartphone platform. And which do you use?
Android. Android. I like Android for a couple of reasons. The first is that it slots into the Google Apps ecosystem that I built much of my online life around prior to getting an Android phone — an excellent Gmail … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 06 – Primary geek fuel (snacks/drinks)
This is a delayed post which is likely to show up as I’m several kilometres above New Zealand. The next few posts may/may not be delayed. Nothing particularly fixed as far as food is concerned. I’ll eat whatever I can … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 05 – Quick nifty hacks you’re proud of.
As it turns out, probably about 90% of the coding that I do these days is in the form of nifty hacks. This is particularly because in research the impetus is not necessarily to have code that is reusable in … Continue reading
