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  • 31 . 01 . 11

    The Blind Assassin

    Three chapters in and we’re already following three separate narratives in this complex, layered story. Atwood excels at giving each thread a unique voice and the story unfolds into a neat mystery that is resolved successfully.

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  • 31 . 01 . 11

    You Need A Montage

    ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are fantastic tools for manipulating images. Here, I outline the montage sub-command and use it to tile two photos of differing dimensions, so that they can be easily aligned in a column format with other images.

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  • 30 . 01 . 11

    The Great Gatsby

    One of the most lyrically beautiful books I’ve read in a long time. Every character, moment and emotion is exquisitely portrayed and replete with descriptive grace-notes that immerse the reader in the period and bring warmth and character to what is a relatively uncomplicated story.

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  • 28 . 01 . 11

    The Crying Of Lot 49

    Obtuse, deliberately so, but enthralling. Sentences that demand to be read three times and a thousand oblique references that I missed most of, it comes perilously close to being unreadable, but has a sense of humour that is irrepressible.

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  • 27 . 01 . 11

    Now Reading… More

    On my recent joyful rediscovery of reading, a simple and inestimable pleasure that I let alone for too long, and a new bare-bones WordPress plugin I cobbled together tonight to list recently read books.

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  • 24 . 01 . 11

    Choosing To Choose

    Self-indulgent nonsense about a very middle-class neurosis, and the difficulty in choosing where to focus my energies.

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  • 18 . 01 . 11

    An Erlang Matrix Module

    A simple matrix module written in Erlang, using lists rather than tuples as its main implementation detail, which provides a number of standard matrix operations without the excessive copying and overhead that existing modules exhibit.

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  • 12 . 01 . 11

    And The Water Continues Its Inexorable Ascent

    The recent floods have transformed Brisbane. Here I describe the mood on the night of January 12th as we wait for the flood peak to come.

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  • 08 . 01 . 11

    Giving Back: My 2011 Manifesto

    Open source projects have immeasurably changed the world and my life for the better. With no formal employment for the bulk of 2011, I pledge to give time and effort to people that need help, and projects that inspire me.

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    Jamie Talbot

    Technology and travel stories from a global roaming, kangaroo loving, sake drinking gaijin pom.

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