Archive for June, 2006
More Sydney
14 June 2006Been having a chill out day today. Gill has been at work teaching kids whatever it is that she teaches them so I have been left to my own devices, that means wandering around downtown Sydney and drinking coffee in a variety of locales. It is now 3:30 in the afternoon so I though I’d […]
Sydney
13 June 2006Its been a great couple of days, I’ve spend the last four nights in Sydney for the biometrics consortium annual conference. I flew down on Thursday morning and despite a small snafu with forgetting the poster that I was due to present that morning everything worked out fairly well. Spent the next two days being […]
Free Cryptography Course
5 June 2006Offered online - no this isn’t one of those “Get your PhD in 3 weeks - NO WORK REQUIRED!!!” type deals just a university making all the material for an advanced cyrpto course freely available.
Ubuntu Dapper Drake
5 June 2006June 1st marks the release of the latest stable version of Ubuntu linux distribution. You can download the handy combined live CD / installer from the ubuntu homepage (scroll down for torrent files) and a handy review (which has convinced me to get dapper running on that spare machine I have at home) here.
Boys will be boys
5 June 2006That doesn’t stop the american media from wringing every last little bit of hype from what would otherwise be a very run of the mill story. Apparently some kids was watching porn on his Playstation Portable (PSP) at school and the media has been running with it (probably because it is also a gaming machine). All […]