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	<title>Totally Random</title>
	<link>http://blog.ricketson.org</link>
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		<title>EvolveJs assembly code explained</title>
		<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. To make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2008/evolvejs-assembly-code-explained/</link>
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		<title>About evolveJs</title>
		<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 is born, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2008/about-evolvejs/</link>
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		<title>Liam turns two</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2008/liam-turns-two/</link>
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		<title>Evolution in javascript</title>
		<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 assembly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2008/evolution-in-javascript/</link>
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		<title>My Firefox extensions</title>
		<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 browser into whatever you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/my-firefox-extensions/</link>
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		<title>Word Press Challenge Manager Plugin</title>
		<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 put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/word-press-challenge-manager-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Switching my parents to Ubuntu</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/switching-your-parents-to-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Grandma at Easter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liam spent some time with Grandma in Canberra at Easter
 
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		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/grandma-at-easter/</link>
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		<title>A Tricky family update - 13 weeks into parenthood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We love being parents to Liam more and more each day.  He continues to surprise and delight us with his ever emerging personality.  Gone is the redness of his newborn skin; his skin is now a pale chickeny colour, so I have started to call him chicken chop.Overall, I still think he&#39;s pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/a-tricky-family-update-13-weeks-into-parenthood/</link>
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		<title>Turings Cathedral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting essay by George Dyson talking about Google, information and Artificial Intelligence]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/turings-cathedral/</link>
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