S T E P H E N H U C K E R . C O M http://stephenhucker.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:37:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sword ownership in Victoria There has been a disturbing trend for young people to carry knives for self defence. This has lead to an inevitable increase in knife wounds and deaths.

Quite rightly the government is worried. In Victoria this inevitably leads to increased regulation and costs for legitimate law abiding users such as martial artists and collectors.

The Age has [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/03/07/sword-ownership-in-victoria/ Statistics Just after Christmas I ordered two books on statistics. Both are part of the O’Reilly series Head First series.

If only my University stats course was as well done as this book. I probably would have remembered more.

More to follow on stats because without practise, there is no retention.

So expect to see some blog posts on [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/03/01/statistics/ Toilet Humour Working for the government or any large corporate you often are told to do things are certain way. Much of this is common sense and political correctness. In moderation it is fine because it often provides humorous examples such as this:

This is part of a poster telling you how to use the toilet and to [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/02/20/toilet-humour/ Up in the Air [Movie]

Loved this movie, George Clooney is the Cary Grant of the 90’s and 00’s

He seems to pick films that I enjoy watching a second, or third time with few qualms.

]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/02/20/up-in-the-air-movie/ Revising my HTML and CSS Skills Just purchased a number of books for work, on statistics and HTML from Amazon.com. The sad thing is not only did the books get to me quicker then if I had order it through the local book store (about 20 days) but it was over half the price!

The HTML / CSS book I am reading [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/02/15/revising-my-html-and-css-skills/ Forever War [BOOK] One of my favourite books of all time, Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War“. I first read it 25 years ago

When it was first published over 25 years ago, Joe Haldeman’s novel won the Hugo and Nebula awards and was chosen Best Novel in several countries. Today, it is hailed a classic of science [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/02/08/book-of-the-week/ Australia Day Long weekend At the moment I am Mum’s place. Until two days ago I had to be back at work on Monday.

That was a bit of a nuisance because Tuesday, is the Australia day public holiday.

Fortunately every three months at work you can ask for a flex day off and they must give it to you.

At the [...]]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/01/23/australia-day-long-weekend/ Started Swimming again Joined the Brunswick City Baths today.

My goal is to be able to swim a Kilometre again. But I have a long way to go. The 50 metre pool looks much longer then it was when I was younger and fitter.

]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/01/07/started-swimming-again/ Fracking great Battlestar Galactica Queen Bohemian Rhapsody mashup

]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/01/05/fracking-great/ My brother now has a Mac My brother recently purchased an iMac … finally got to talk to one of my family members using video conferencing … only 28 years after getting my first computer

]]> http://stephenhucker.com/2010/01/02/my-brother-now-has-a-mac/