There are many occasions where I am quite pleased in my profession. A recent example is the cracking of the Zodiac cipher on Spartan, an announcement that has made quite an impact in the international news. I confess that I was aware of it a week ago, but for obvious reasons, I've waited for the official announcement by the FBI before commenting. ( Read more... )

Most of my weekend has been developing the outline for a trial HPC mentoring project for the University of Melbourne. With a waiting list of several hundred researchers for my courses, even as I conduct them with two days of workshops every fortnight it is clear that the number of requests is greater than my ability to deliver, hence the need for a ( Read more... )

Even my own standards the past few days and the next week or so are perhaps a little busier than what is really in the bounds of acceptable levels. I can only try to express the main items as dot points in an attempt to organise my thoughts. Once written down it doesn't seem too bad, really. Finish a 'zine, then two day-long programming workshops, ( Read more... )