Mum got married today! Her first marriage lasted for 50 years, somehow I don’t think the second will last that long!
Best of luck and wishes for a long and happy marriage.
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In Victoria (Australia) it is generally illegal to own a sword, unless you have an exemption GENERAL EXEMPTION UNDER SECTION 8B TO POSSESS SWORDS 1. Museum or you have a licence similar to a gun licence! The cheapest way until recently to legally own a sword was to joint the Australian Knife Collectors club which has a general exemption for members owning swords. On my last blog article I mentioned that in Victoria there is a big crack down on knives. Something which I have no problems with. This naturally caused a problem for the Australian Knife Collectors club b/c they were the most prominent organisation providing exemptions. Because of this pressure and to protect its core interest, knife ownership it has relinquished the exemptions bestowed upon it for swords. If you are covered by the exemption you will have until 30 September 2010. In summary, bring on the nanny state
Mission: To backup my music and picture collection onto portable hard drives as a backup . Music: 406.66 GB The pictures folder is updated every two or three days with pictures from my iphone and the occasional run with my SLR. To copy the entire folders to an external USB 2 drive would take most of the night. This is simply not practicable, at least until USB 3 comes along. The solution, RSYNC Original disk: work ==> backup disk: backup500gb >>> sudo rsync -vaxE –delete Music /Volumes/backup500gb This would recursively transfer all files from the directory /Volumes/work/Music to /Volumes/backup500gb/Music directory. The files are transferred in “archive” mode, which ensures that symbolic links, devices, attributes, permissions, ownerships, etc. are preserved in the transfer. Additionally, compression will be used to reduce the size of data portions of the transfer. The archive mode is overkill for pictures and music, but if I were copying programs, batch files, etc it would be very important.
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
-x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries
-E, --executability preserve executability
>>> sudo rsync -vaxE –delete Pictrures /Volumes/backup500gb Not quite as good as the Boxing day sales, but 50% off is nothing to be sneezed at
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating systems It has the following features:
To install it on OS X type “easy_install bpython” at the command line To run it, type “bpython“ Its great for people like me who are still learning python. 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 an article about another crackdown with a redundant title of Sharp eye on lethal weapon collector clubs. Weapons by their very nature are always capable of killing (just look at non lethal weapons like capsicum spray and tasers. In rare cases these have led to deaths.) “The Brumby government is cracking down on weapons ”collector” clubs that may be abusing their legal right to own banned samurai swords and daggers.” 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 weather stats in Melbourne and some pretty pictures -) Probably done in Excel or the stats package R 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 wash your hands at the end. Is this directed at asians and others who are used to squat toilets?
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.
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