Alison Young

I love finding interesting stuff in my RSS feeds, most items currently come from my Slashdot feed.

Among the articles about anamatronic clothing and Zune reviews I found a couple of quite appealing articles. The first is that the complete works of Charles Darwin have been meticulously catalogued and photographed and you can read the text on the left and see the actual page on the right. I thought it was cool.

The second is an article which describes what the earth would be like if all humanlife disappeared. I haven’t had a chance to read it in full as yet, so the link is here for my reference as much as yours. But the crux of it is that within a matter of a few hundred thousand years there would be little to no trace of human life whatsoever. Quite sobering.

Honours thesis, teaching and being mildly social has left me with little time for pursuing hobbies over the last several months. I’ve now got less than a week to go before submission; drafts have been issued to my 3 proof-readers.

In more exciting news I’ve finished my Open Source Software paper and have decided I’m going to go send it in for consideration for the Research miniconf at linux.conf.au which will be in Sydney in January next year. I’m excited, this will be my first paper submission to a conference. I do plan to go whether I get accepted or not, should be fun to go to a linux conference and I know I’ll learn a lot.