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Author Archives: Graeme
The Odyssey 50km
The Giant Odyssey 50km mountain bike race was held in Forrest at the end of April. I survived. I enjoyed parts. I need lots of work on my handling skills. I didn’t crash, and the only injuries were to my … Continue reading
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(No) notes from MPUG, April 2014
I was overseas last month so missed the April MPUG meeting. For the record, here’s what happened: Ed Schofield spoke on “What’s New in Python”, which is now a regular feature in our meetings Adrian Higgins from Planet Innovation spoke … Continue reading
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Venn menu
Courtesy of Boing Boing, my kind of Venn diagram:
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Notes from MPUG, March 2014
25 people turned up to hear two great talks at the March Melbourne Python Users Group meeting. Andrew Walker spoke on “How Hard Could it be to Implement Timeouts?”, while Javier Candeira spoke on “Implementing an agnostic, dynamic client for a REST … Continue reading
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The Alpine Classic
The Audax Alpine Classic is an annual bike ride in the Victorian high country, held on the Australia Day weekend. There are a range of different distances, but the classic ride is the 200km course, from Bright to Falls Creek, … Continue reading
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Notes from MPUG, February 2014
There were thirty people present for the first Melbourne Python Users Group meeting of the year. Alas, I had work committments and didn’t make it, so no notes, but for the record here are the details of the three speakers … Continue reading
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Notes from MPUG, December 2013
The last meeting of the Melbourne Python User Group for 2013 was held in early December. It has been a good year for the group, with lots of people attending a variety of interesting talks throughout the year, and we owe … Continue reading
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Mountain Creek to Bogong Village via two mountains
The end of the year usually involves an epic walk of some form and 2013 was no different with a plan to try a new route off Mt Bogong, Victoria’s highest mountain, across to Bogong Village. My oldest daughter decided … Continue reading
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Dissection of my first DNF
Over the last ten years, I have done a lot of runs, ranging from 2km fun runs with my young son through to 100km ultras. None of those runs has compared to the misery of October’s Lake Mountain Skyrun, which … Continue reading
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