| Blathering for Monday, 23 June 2008 |
15:00: Mikal shared: Ten most densely populated technology startup regions [Startups]
15:15: Mikal shared: Video: Jeff Dean's Google I/O Presentation
18:43: In Canberra. I caught the bus into ANU this morning, and have so far achieved office, keys, cake and confusion. Next steps: work out how to get an external monitoring working on my laptop, and wonder about why there is a supermarket where the Civic library used to be.
19:00: Mikal shared: The Slowest Mail Servers in the World
19:48: Wow. Most of my PlanetLab nodes are offline. Apparently the planned upgrade has eaten lots of their machines, which is a bit sad. They do say they're looking into it though.
19:57: How odd. Someone on SourceForge asked to take over Panda (my PDF code from ages ago). However, they didn't bother to contact me directly, and just clicked on a button in the SF interface. I wonder what they intended to do with the code?
20:00: Mikal shared: 1.5 Million Australian Students Dump Outlook/Exchange For Gmail
23:31: I just went to a seminar on thesis production for my part time PhD. It was quite interesting, with some useful statistics. For example -- students at ANU on average take 4.3 full time years to complete their thesis. The national average is 4.5 years. It is of course hard to get scholarship funding for more than three years now though. Also, 80% of ANU postgraduate students finish, whereas the national average is only 65%.
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