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Bridge to Bridge

I rode along the Brisbane river from the bridge at Indooroopilly to the Gateway bridge and back.
Date:26/06/2010 7:22 am
Distance:65.0 kilometers
Elapsed Time:3:20:22
Avg. Speed:19.5 km/h
Max. Speed:56.3 km/h
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Ride to Portside

I rode to Portside this morning to try out MotionX GPS on the iPhone. I found a couple of weird signs along the way.
Date:12/01/2010 8:49 am
Distance:22.0 kilometers
Elapsed Time:1:12:46
Avg. Speed:18.1 km/h
Max. Speed:44.5 km/h
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USA

Earlier this year I travelled to the USA for SIGIR 2009. I visited New York City, Boston, Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Taos. I have made another travel map!
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K-tree, NMF and INEX 2008

Today I gave a presentation within my research group at QUT. It discusses the submissions I made for the XML Mining track at INEX 2008. This required classifying documents based on previously known examples (classification). Another task required grouping similar documents together with no prior information other than the documents themselves (clustering). I also looked [...]

Smash

Oh my. I smashed my car today. Not good. Anyway, here are the pictures. It gets towed Monday.

Outside St John’s

Here is the outside of the place I stayed while in Sydney over summer. Quite impressive.

Just a little TV

Here is my brand spanking new 50″ plasma TV. It is the Samsung PS50P91FDX. I have been happy with it so far. The video quality is awesome and it replaces my AV receiver as the audio and video switching device. It does HDMI, component, composite and vga where as the receiver only switched component. According [...]

My Shared News

I am sharing my favorite news stories via Google Reader. This is one of the many nice features of the product. Hope you find them interesting.

Wish List

Here is my mammoth Amazon wish list.
Chris’s Amazon Wish List
A great source for gifts ideas. I am unsure if I will be able to finish the list before I die. It is largely dominated by computing, math and science topics. Maybe one day this will change too.

Three Sisters

I hired a car and drove to the Blue Mountains behind Sydney. I stopped at Katoomba to visit the Three Sisters. Here are some pictures of the three rocks and company.