http://www.saminverso.com Not a Substitute for Human Interaction Mon, 12 May 2008 03:30:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I tried sailing for the first time Sunday afternoon on a choppy, windy, cold lake Burley Griffin. It was a lot of fun! Mostly I sat in the boat while someone else sailed, baby steps. I'm planning to take a course after the mid-term review is over. Here are some ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/11/04/anu-sailing-club-and-parsa-bbq I finally uploaded some photos from my two weeks in Queensland (a few are captioned). More to come. Enjoy these for now. http://www.saminverso.com/2007/08/27/brisbane-and-palm-cove-july-2007 Today a friend and I ran the 10k (6mile) Canada Fun Run (formerly the Terry Fox Fun Run). It was a nice day with cool weather, many people participated to raise money for cancer research, and we managed a good finishing time. The Canadian embassy served free pancakes after the ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/06/17/canada-fun-run-for-cancer I won second place in the Burgmann College Food Festival for my Chocolate Chip Cookies! (First prize went to Spicy Chicken Wings.) For second place I won a tea set for two. Don't ask me, apparently there was a Mother's Day leftover sale. First place prize was a ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/13/second-place-in-burgmann-food-festival Vim: Search and replace in all buffers :bufdo %s/pattern/substitution/ge | update bufdo: applies the following command to all buffers. %s: means search and replace the whole file g: change all instances in a line e: avoids the error when the pattern doesn't exist in a file update: writes the file only if changes were made See also ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/09/search-and-replace-in-all-buffers I received the photos taken by the marathon's photographers along the route. Here they are, appropriately captioned :-) http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/01/more-marathon-photos I went to the footy on Saturday. Not soccer or American football, but Australian Rugby Union, which is not to be confused with Rugby League or the AFL (Australian Football League :-). Despite my friends best efforts to explain the rules, I still had no idea what was ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/04/28/brumbies-vs-crusaders-game I finished the Canberra Marathon in 5 hours 48 minutes and 48 seconds!. I've posted some photos in the photo gallery taken by Taira. She was volunteering so their aren't many. I've ordered the official marathon photos and will post them when I get them. 5:48:48 over 26.2 miles (42.2km) means I ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/04/15/i-finished I'm running my first marathon next Sunday (April 15th). There are a few reasons why I'm running a marathon, the first is to see if I can. The second is to raise money for the Children's Cancer Institute Australia with per kilometer sponsorship, and the final reason is ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/04/09/262 The daily dynamic banner montage is now dynamic again. HostGator disabled cURL for all shared users without giving notice. The cron job that rotates the banner depends on cURL so for about a month now it wasn't working. I just noticed the problem, and after a quick email to support ... http://www.saminverso.com/2007/01/19/dynamic-daily-banner-montage-fixed