Entries from March 2007

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Procrastination Dash

Just read an interesting method of avoiding procrastination, or rather motivating yourself to work on certain tasks. By doing tiny amounts of tasks you realise how easy the task is and thus how easily you can complete it. Not sure what you might do if the task isn’t easy however.
Sounds like an interesting idea, I’ll [...]

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Racial Separation in Australia

I recently received this chain letter in my email:
Subject: im proud.u call me racist
Okay, now that i have your attention.
There are Aboriginals, ,Torres Strait Islanders, Kiwi Australians, Lebanese Australians, Asian Australians, Arab Australians, Boat People from all over the place., etc. And then there are just Australians.
You pass me on the street and sneer [...]

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

OpenOffice – It’s Not Cheating

With the launch of Microsoft’s new suite of software with an interface make-over comes an offer no money saving uni student could refuse. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, for $75. The website advertising it all – itsnotcheating.com.au – is clearly aimed at uni students who pirate their copies of Office. After all how many students can [...]

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Version your Essays – Part I

Subversion is almost a necessity for many programmers. However it is rarely thought of as a tool for “versioning” essays, study, letters, documents etc.
What is Subversion?
Subversion (or SVN) was designed to be a successor of CVS, another “version control” system. Basically what they do is keep track of every version of a file in a [...]