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Recent Posts
- pyFitsidi – Python FITS IDI writing
- A textmate command for sphinx
- Bottle: Quick Python Web Apps
- eLyXer: tex to HTML
- LyX: Error converting PDF to loadable format
- Oxford LyX Thesis Template
- Physics report with LyX + JabRef + Inkscape
- UWA Physics LyX Thesis template
- Anritsu VNA Python Script
- A super quick history of Australian settlement
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Anritsu VNA Python Script
Posted on May 27, 2009 | View CommentsI spent a lot of time in the lab last month, taking measurements with an Anritsu 37xxxC series VNA. It would've taken me even longer if I hadn't made this little python script to control the VNA over GPIB. -
A super quick history of Australian settlement
Posted on February 5, 2009 | View CommentsThe oldest human remains found in Australia are that of the Mungo Man, believed to have lived about 40,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch. So the Aborigines have been in Australia for at least 100 times longer than the Brits. As far as colonists go, China knew about Australia before the Dutch,... -
Hyperconnectivity and society
Posted on December 18, 2008 | View CommentsI’ve only recently become aware of the concept of Hyperconnectivity: where everything that can be networked together, is. We are already seeing changes in the way we communicate: a lot of “Web 2.0″ apps are essentially hyperconnecting us (as human nodes) to each other. I am intrigued by the question:... -
A Hyperconnected Night Out
Posted on December 18, 2008 | View CommentsSomething that’s causing a storm-in-a-teacup at the moment in my hometown is Nightkey – a new ID system that uses your fingerprint to create a biometric link between you and the ID you supply. It’s being sold as an “anti-antisocial behaviour” solution. I was outraged when I found out about... -
Hoppers and Gargoyles
Posted on April 18, 2005 | View CommentsAs I’m currently in Japan, the tension between China and Japan is a hot issue at the moment. I was talking to Jo’s host father yesterday and he asked me what I thought about it, which made me realise I didn’t know much on the issue. So I decided to...
