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Sunday, November 15, 2009

8:00PM - Victor's Twitter Posts for the Day!

  • 23:19 I'm feeling a bit tired. #
  • 05:57 the light in my room just died. I'm now reading and typing in the dark. #
  • 10:19 I wish someone would email me, DM me, or send me an IM. I want to feel connected to my online friends right now. :( #
  • 10:21 @punkymcmunky Hey there. You wanna chat on YM or something? Do I even have your YM username? #
  • 10:21 @punkymcmunky If you do wanna chat, DM it to me? #
  • 10:24 @punkymcmunky trying to YM you now. :) #
  • 10:53 @IRGRL haha... Thanks #
  • 10:59 @70ms I went through that quest too. It felt rather uncomfortable, actually. #
  • 12:53 Two people punching each other on TV can be weird... I'm going to go back to work. #
  • 14:14 @therizabella Hi. Could be better. Focusing on schoolwork right now so I don't have to think about other stuff in the meantime. #
  • 14:28 @franchjean Alright. I'll make sure to be online. :) *huggles* #
  • 14:37 @franchjean Glad to see you tweeting again. Hope you're feeling somewhat better. :) #
  • 14:42 @franchjean alright. I hope your outing goes well. Let's discuss it later, and you can rant and rave and whatnot, okay? :) #
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11:20AM - UK child migrants apology planned

Gordon Brown plans to apologise for the government's role in sending thousands of British children to former colonies.

10:53AM - Thousands attend Enke's memorial

Tens of thousands of fans gather in Germany's Hanover stadium for a memorial ceremony for goalkeeper Robert Enke.

11:14AM - Cook to lead England in Centurion

Alastair Cook will captain England in the second Twenty20 international with South Africa after Paul Collingwood was ruled out because of a back injury.

10:43AM - Arsenal hit by Van Persie injury

Arsenal striker Robin van Persie is set for a lengthy spell out after suffering suspected ankle ligament damage while playing for the Netherlands.

4:20PM - [Wireless] D-Link DWL-G122 on Ubuntu 9.10

Hi everyone,
I'm having issues with wireless after installing (with a clean installation) Ubuntu 9.10.
I have a D-Link Dwl-G122 wireless pen adapter which worked fine with Ubuntu 9.04.
It sees the wireless network available and tries to connect. I enter the WPA key, it tries for a while but ends unsuccesfully and asks for the key again. Any idea?
Thanks!

10:20AM - UK child migrants apology planned

Gordon Brown plans to apologise for the government's role in sending thousands of British children to former colonies.

10:18AM - Thousands gather for Enke funeral

Tens of thousands of fans gather in Germany's Hannover stadium for a memorial ceremony for goalkeeper Robert Enke.

9:31AM - Time 'running out' on Iran talks

US President Barack Obama says time is running out for talks over Iran's nuclear programme, and Russia says "other means" could be used.

8:42AM - UK child migrants apology planned

Gordon Brown plans to apologise for the government's role in sending thousands of British children to former colonies.

8:46AM - Time 'running out' on Iran talks

US President Barack Obama says time is running out for talks over Iran's nuclear programme, and Russia says "other means" could be used.

8:06AM - Apec leaders drop climate target

Asia-Pacific leaders say it will not be possible to reach a climate change deal ahead of the UN conference in Copenhagen.

6:26AM - Pacquiao win makes boxing history

Filipino Manny Pacquiao earns a stunning victory over Miguel Cotto - claiming his seventh title in seven weight classes.

8:04AM - Colombia to release Venezuelans

Colombia is to release four detained Venezuelan national guard members who crossed the border into Colombian territory.

6:26AM - Pacquiao claims stunning victory

Filipino Manny Pacquiao earns a stunning victory over Miguel Cotto - claiming his seventh title in seven weight classes.

6:44AM - Kosovo votes in local elections

Kosovo holds local elections, the first poll since independence was declared from Serbia in early 2008.

5:50AM - Apec leaders in climate warning

Asia-Pacific leaders say it will not be possible to reach a climate change deal ahead of the UN conference in Copenhagen.

4:49AM - UK child migrants apology planned

PM Gordon Brown prepares to apologise for the UK government's role in sending thousands of British children to former colonies.

6:07AM - Kosovo votes in local elections

Kosovo holds local elections, the first poll since independence was declared from Serbia in early 2008.

6:26AM - Pacquiao claims stunning victory

Filipino Manny Pacquiao earns a stunning victory over Miguel Cotto stopping his opponent in the 12th round of their WBO welterweight clash.

3:39AM - Iran forms political web monitor

Iranian police set up a special unit to monitor political websites in an apparent effort to curb opposition campaigners.

2:49AM - Obama joins Apec Singapore summit

US President Barack Obama joins Asian leaders in Singapore for an economic forum, before he continues to China later.

1:58AM - Sweden returns skulls to Hawaii

Sweden returns 22 skulls taken from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii in the 19th Century, where they will now be reburied.

2:29AM - Kosovo votes in local elections

Kosovo holds local elections, the first poll since independence was declared from Serbia in early 2008.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

4:32PM - [info]dnalounge update

DNA Lounge update, wherein there are some photos.

Current music: Pogo -- Symphony #69

11:29PM - Obama joins Apec Singapore summit

US President Barack Obama joins Asian leaders in Singapore for an economic forum, before he continues to China later.

6:23PM - Decade





Coming up is the ten-year anniversary of my first sight of Isola d’ Ischia. Below is a video I took of the ferryboat coming into the harbor. Yes, I know. The camera shake is quite distracting and I need to work on a more professional shooting style. You might say this is more like a record shot, like you take at family gatherings or at Christmas, which has mainly personal significance.



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10:08PM - France edge Republic in play-off

The Republic of Ireland face an uphill task to make the World Cup finals after Nicolas Anelka's goal helps France win 1-0 in the first leg of their play-off at Croke Park.

1:59PM - Live - Saturday football

France take the initiative with a 1-0 win against Ireland in their World Cup play-off first leg after Brazil beat England in Doha, Wales thrash Scotland and Northern Ireland lose to Serbia.

10:08PM - Anelka helps France edge Republic in play-off

The Republic of Ireland face an uphill task to make the World Cup finals after Nicolas Anelka's goal helps France win the first leg of their play-off.

1:14PM - ghc llvm

I read this thesis on an LLVM backend for GHC, primarily because I was curious to learn more about GHC internals. The thesis serves well as an overview of the pieces. As for the actual change, it seems to fall somewhere in between compiling via C and generating machine code directly on the sorts of tradeoffs you'd expect (generating machine code directly = more control, more performance, more work).

GHC is designed around the spineless tagless G-machine, a paper I've never gotten around to reading, but conceptually is like a VM that GHC targets and then codegens from. It has a number of values ("virtual registers") it wants to keep track of while running, like the current stack pointer and current thread object (see table 2.1 in the paper). Because they're used so frequently, GHC pins these through to machine registers. I was surprised to read that on x86 this leaves only one register free for doing computations!

That was mentioned in a section describing one place where the LLVM implementation outperforms the GHC implementation: because LLVM doesn't support this register pinning directly, the code generator instead sets things up so that the relevant values are frequently (at the entrance to each function, in fact) in the appropriate registers, with the assumption that the LLVM optimizer will leave the values alone since each function call would otherwise need to restore those values in the appropriate registers. But in fact, sometimes it does make sense to spill those to the stack, and those are exactly some of the cases where the LLVM implementation is superior.

(Update: found an old thread where SPJ briefly discusses LLVM.)

1:59PM - Live - Saturday football

Republic of Ireland meet France in a crucial World Cup play-off first leg after Brazil beat England in Doha, Wales thrash Scotland and Northern Ireland lose to Serbia.

6:39PM - Another day of train travel

Woke up in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, went back to sleep, and by dawn we were in the middle of a whiteout with snow on the Wasatch front. Headed east from there, roughly following the path of Interstate 70, through Green River and Grand Junction. We'll get to Denver at about 7PM, which is where I will get off the train, and head to the airport tomorrow for a flight to an unnamed destination to hang with friends for a few days.

Storm clouds over desert mountains

Taking pictures all through the day!

12:11AM - Why the collection is important

A picture named santa.gifIn response to my post about the new editorial tools I am using, Bill Seitz asked why it's so important to have a representation of the pre-rendered content stored in public on the web. My first answer was incomplete, I said I wanted an archive. I don't feel comfortable having the only copy of things I write reside on servers of corporations who might decide at some point they're not interested in continuing to store the stuff, or might have a technical failure and lose the stuff. Or whatever. Praise Murphy.

But there's another even more important reason. I hope that at some point we might swing back with everyone having their own home base and that we might still have the benefit of real-time updates, and scatter the bits all over creation. I want the best of both worlds. A place where all my writing is collected and preserved and can be commented on, and having that same content appear in as many other places as people want to view it. This was the point of syndication in the first place, to give people lots of options for viewing. And while not many people knew about the cloud element in RSS, it was there since 2001, so I don't think I have to work too hard to persuade anyone that real-time updates was always part of the vision of RSS. It was.

If we're going to get there, we have to start. That's what I'm doing, starting.

6:57PM - Brazil and France in climate deal

Brazil and France agree a common position on fighting global warming before the UN climate change conference.

6:32PM - French cash giveaway is called off after thousands turn up

A French internet company abandons plans to hand out envelopes of cash after police demanded they cancel the event for security reasons.

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