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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Advice? What Advice?

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There comes a point in time when I must acknowledge that I have outgrown the epoch of life where I knew answers to anything and everything a...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Streisand Effect

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Yeah I copped out and did a couple of six-word flash fiction pieces, but they took a surprising amount of effort to pull off. I am sort of...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Singular

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The chief disadvantage of striving for one's dreams and goals is that it tends to lead to being in a singular state. Now, being a rathe...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

I Hope This Makes Up For It

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I suppose I really should apologise for not having an entry prepared at the natural fortnight mark, but I won't. I'm not trying to ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

So?

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Not a fan of pseudo open talk. But I don't really want this to be that easily read, so bear with me. V nz fgnegvat gb svaq vg vafhssr...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

So much drivel...

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Yet another long overdue update. I swear that fortnights pass so quickly and silently that I don't realise that they have passed me by ...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Duplicity

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Okay, I think I maaay be a little late in the promised per fortnightly entry. But here it is, and I hope that this makes up for it. -----...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

On Ignorance

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Okay, time for a rant. First, read this (this is around 5 web pages long and will therefore take a fair bit of time, props to Janet for po...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Looking in Both Directions

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It's that day again. I'm pre-writing this while I'm still sober and not depressed/manic and so what I may say here is likely to...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Structure

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Blech. I feel like shooting myself in the face. So, in one of my earlier posts of the year, I said that I would be writing a short piece ...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

白い雪

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Recently, I got my hands on this nice piece by KOKIA: KOKIA------白い雪 溢れる涙から生まれる雪の結晶 次から次へと生まれては消えてゆく 一瞬の輝きに賭けた人生 もう言い残すことはないと堅く口を閉ざした ...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2013: 3 poems posted here 22 essays/rants posted here 1 prose/story posted here 1 NaNoWriMo win...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Yet Another NaNoWriMo Win.

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After 29 days of gruelling writing, I have finally finished this year's NaNoWriMo entry entitled ``disturbed''. The long and sh...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Shadow Warrior

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The worst thing that can happen to anyone who actually has to think for a living is to have a massive headache. It is true --- it is actual...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Workarounds...

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Some notes to myself for Elysie-II since the update of the BIOS from release 5 to release 7: Xubuntu: For Hyper-Threading to work, ACPI need...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Feed Not the Troll, but Ban it Instead

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It has been a while since I last wrote here. The lack of updates isn't really because of a lack of want to update, but really because t...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Funerals and Servers

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The past fortnight had been a rather dreary affair, in many cases. Like most corporate salaryman, there was a large number of meetings most...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Brute in a Suit

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``You can put a brute in a suit, but he will never be a gentleman---he just looks like a brute, in a suit.'' That's the kind o...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Vexations

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It is, once again, the evening, and I find myself sitting around, mulling about life as I await the opportune moment to head out for trainin...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

Self-Identifying Categorisation

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Time to rant. In spite of doing lots of machine learning/data mining stuff, I really dislike having to categorise things. Especially peop...
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