Sam Wilson's Journal
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I am working on a bespoke issue-tracking system at the moment (not for code issue-tracking, in case anyone thinks we’re cloning Redmine; although there certainly are overlaps…) in which each issue has a list of personnel, each of whom have a role on the issue. The task at hand is to prevent people selecting the [...]
[Keywords: forms, HTML, jQuery, Programming, selecting, tabular, validation, websites, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
“Machines should work, people should think.” The message repeats itself several times; it’s the core of the film’s techno-utopian vision. We can imagine IBM executives and lawyers and public relations agents sitting across a table from Jim Henson telling him to make sure he includes these lines in his film. What if, following William Empson’s [...]
[Keywords: Ben Kafka, IBM, ICT, Information Technology, paperwork, technology, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Given a database table listing events and their date ranges: events { id, start_date, end_date, … }, where either or both of the dates can be null, how is one to find all of the events that fall within (even partially) a given date range? (This is pretty much what Kieran Benton asked on Stack [...]
[Keywords: code snippets, date ranges, Kieran Benton, MySQL, SQL, Stack Overflow, temporal reasoning, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Thanks to the wonderful people on Stackoverflow, I’m making some progress with figuring out how some geographic information is saved in a DB2 database that I’m working with. it turns out that, rather than using the spatial functionality of DB2 (which would make sense, but considering the source of this database, I wouldn’t ask for [...]
[Keywords: bc_base_convert, GIS, MGA, Morton codes, PHP, UTM, Work, Z-order (curve)] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Just to intersperse this stream of codeish posts with something a little more real… I rode part of the way to work today, and then put my bicycle on the bus for the remainder of the journey. (An odd feeling, looking through the bus’ windscreen and seeing my little bike all alone out there, bobbing [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, craft, Making, technology, Transport, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve just discovered the ABC’s blogs (blogs.abc.net.au) and I quite like what I’ve read so far. Maybe it’s just the idea of far-away correspondents filing these ‘letters home’ that appeals. A chap with a laptop (I’d like to think he’d be writing in longhand, on some favorite brand of Australian notepaper, but I realise the [...]
[Keywords: ABC, boredom, Gardening, Work] [One comment] [Permanent link]
All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement (“I don’t go in cars; don’t ask me to.”) has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations in the tea-room about various cars’ power-ratings and other such motorcar trivia would [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, cars, dichotomy, Making, Woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
From mud-and-straw to IBM — July 2nd, 2007, 8PM
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The chickenhouse must get finished! The chooks are growing up, and they’re in the shed with a little light to keep them warm — but we’ve got such a lovely house planned for them, and we just must finish it! It’s at the bottom of the garden, with two runs (summer and winter; nothing but [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Chickens, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I've left. — March 22nd, 2007, 10AM
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[Keywords: Canberra, University, Work] [One comment] [Permanent link]
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Often, when I’m sitting in a lecture about concurrency, say, or sketching a possible design for some program, I actively love the fountain pen that I’m using at these times. Engaging with I.T., I find such great comfort in using such an old and ‘outdated’ technology. I usuallly don’t find this particularly interesting, becuase it [...]
[Keywords: People, technology, Uncategorised, Woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Oh weary thing! Oh listless drudgery! Oh the stupid work we make for ourselves!! Oh!… Here I sit, on a cool spring morning, with nothing at all to worry about; I am happy. So why-oh-why-oh-why should I sit down to work at some sloppy, good-for-nothing code that purports to “record, display and analyze genealogical data”?! [...]
[Keywords: Drupal, genealogy, technology, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This morning, outside the workshop: “It is so very good to be back at school. Even though niether the library nor the workshop are open yet, I feel relieved, and insipired to study. It’s a bit like a fraction of what Harry Potter felt when he got back to Hogwarts…” Went from there to Menzies, [...]
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A seminar by Ian Percival, a man who’s life embodies so much of what is wonderful about tools, making, and what might be termed ‘industrial technology’; a thoroughly inspiring talk. Then a lunch with the other post-graduate students and Ian (a usual Wednesday afternoon thing), during which the talk focused mostly around my book plans. [...]
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The loveliest thing happened this afternoon: I sat down to sewing the signatures soon after lunch, an lo! 2½ hours later I looked up! It is so nice when work occupies one so; I don’t really care what I do so long as I can experience this feeling sometimes. It didn’t take long once I [...]
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I began the morning in good spirits, lying watcing the grapevine outside my bedroom window, and the small bright blue patches of sky between the leaves. It didn’t seem to matter if I got out of bed or not… I have this morning begun binding a book: A small piece of blackwood from my table [...]
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In which I wonder for a while if my work is crap, and then decide that it’s not.
In which I wonder for a while if my work is crap, and then decide that it’s not.
[Keywords: ANU, door jamb, dovetails, glueless, PVA glue, treenails, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
