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	<title>Totally Random &#187; jon</title>
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	<description>Random thoughts by a random guy</description>
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		<title>Working on a couple of projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 11:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a long time since I have blogged here (a year?? really?), but I have been working on a couple of things. I have just quit my job to spend more time with my kids and family, and to spend some time on projects that I have been working on. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EvolveJs assembly code explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each animal in EvolveJs is written in a specialised assembly code. This assembly language was designed with some inspiration from Tierra. Each thread is essentially a stack machine and each operation operates on that stack. An assembly operation is a pair of [operation, operand]. One of the key concepts is in markers used for jumping. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About evolveJs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This application is a &#8220;proof of concept&#8221; evolution simulator. Each animal (process) has the following properties Memory: This is both readable and writable memory addresses starting from address 0 for each animal. Threads: Each animal can have multiple threads that communicate via it&#8217;s memory. CpuTime: Each animal is granted cputime by it&#8217;s parent when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liam turns two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liam turned two recently and he had a birthday party. Some of his friends from childcare came and we all had lots of fun. I was a bit worried about what it would be like having 10-15 2 year olds at our house, but nothing major was broken and we had lots of time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution in javascript</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been playing with javascript a bit lately, testing out techniques that I might use for doing a full web 2.0 business application (if any clients would agree&#8230;). The application that I have written is a game along the same sort of lines as RoboCode.&#160; It allows users to implement &#34;animals&#34; in custom written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Firefox extensions</title>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/my-firefox-extensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefox is a much better browser than MS Internet Explorer. It has lots of little benefits for me: Tabbed browsing More standards compliant Easier to develop in Better bookmark management and there are plenty more. But the main benefit is the extensions. The things that you can do with them are amazing. Literally changing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word Press Challenge Manager Plugin</title>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/word-press-challenge-manager-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Challenge Manager is now ready for public use. It is currently being used on selfPortraitChallenge and Whipup. If you are happy with using this plugin, please link back to me on your blog, and put your address in the comments. I&#39;ll add a blog entry soon listing all the people that are using it. Please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switching my parents to Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/switching-your-parents-to-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it turned out to be remarkably simple to switch my not very technically adept parents from Windows XP to Ubuntu (Breezy Badger). We did this on the basis that it was getting increasingly difficult to manage their computer difficulties from Melbourne, and their Windows XP installation was incredibly spamware and adware ridden. So at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandma at Easter</title>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/grandma-at-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/grandma-at-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liam spent some time with Grandma in Canberra at Easter]]></description>
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		<title>Turings Cathedral</title>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/turings-cathedral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting essay by George Dyson talking about Google, information and Artificial Intelligence]]></description>
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