Posted by Roger Keays, 7 January 2009, 4:27 AM
- Cycling, swimming, running... sport in general.
- Salsa, cha cha, waltz, quickstep... dancing in general.
- Apple and strawberry juice, peach and aloe vera juice, apple and aloe vera juice, apple and ginger juice, mandarin juice, carrot juice... juice in general.
- GINGER and CHILLI cordial! (OMG /aku terpengsan)
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Posted by Roger Keays, 9 December 2008, 12:42 PM This is how Netbeans 6.5 looked out of the box on Ubuntu 8.10 for me. The line spacing is screwed up.
The problem was Ubuntu had installed openjdk-6-jdk for me, but Netbeans must have only been tested with sun-java6-jdk. To fix this fire up your terminal and type:
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
$ sudo rm /usr/lib/jvm/default-java
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/ /usr/lib/jvm/default-java
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Posted by Roger Keays, 8 December 2008, 2:57 AM For several years, a concrete understanding of the concept of value has been eluding me. It all began when I was developing the object model for Sunburnt Accounting which was to support multiple currencies. I didn't want to simply translate every transaction involving foreign currencies into a global base currency because this didn't seem to model the real world. If I exchange one sheep for two pigs, who cares about the price of sheep or pigs in Australian Dollars or Mexican Pesos or toothpicks? My sheep is worth two pigs.
This is okay until it comes to reporting. For example, your balance sheet shows what you are 'worth'. You could continue without a base currency and say your net worth is two pigs, $100, 20000 pesos and 4 broken toothpicks, but the question remains - what is this worth? You might even decide to convert it all to AUD and declare the total value to be $300, but what is that worth? In Australia in 2008 it's worth about a iPhone, but for rural Vietnamese it could be worth food for a family for several months.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 5 December 2008, 8:48 PM
- milieu (n) - Medieval Europe provided a fertile milieu for scientific ideas to emerge.
- tacit (n) - We judge them prematurely in our own terms, with all our tacit assumptions.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 4 December 2008, 11:04 PM While I was browsing the language section of the Brisbane library (a favourite hang-out of mine), I came across this book called "Lost for Words" by an Aussie old timer, Hugh Lunn. He had collected a whole lot of classic Australianisms from as far back as the 1940s, and made a series of radio shows for the ABC using them. Later, he published the book of the series which makes for a pretty entertaining read.
Here are some of my favourites from the book. There are many many snippets which are very Aussie but are still so commonly used that they didn't make my list of funny and interesting sayings. A lot of them clearly come from England too.
Emphatic phrases and insults:
- "Where are you going?" ... "I'm off to see a man about a dog."
- "I'm coming!" ... "yeh, so's Christmas."
- "I'm bored mum." ... "Well go pee in your shoe."
- Is the Pope a Catholic?
- Can a duck swim?
- What do you think this is? Bush week?
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Posted by Roger Keays, 7 November 2008, 8:11 PM
- kesayangan (n) - Saya beli seekor anjing kesayangan.
- garrulous (adj) - She is a short, garrulous woman with a heavy Brooklyn accent.
- agoraphobic (adj) - He is a recovering agoraphobic who once made a name for himself playing blindfolded chess.
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