Olly Betts olly@identi.ca
Wellington, New Zealand
British but now living in NZ. Free Software Developer. Debian Developer.
2012-03-25T04:01:46+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I saw a car licence plate starting "xn" and found myself wondering if they'd adopted punycode for personalised plates.2012-03-09T10:26:08+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: a(n) person, a(n) person, Public
2011-12-06T00:01:24+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Jenny's at sea gathering data. At breakfast the weetbix box was infested with bugs. I said she must report the bugs if she wants them fixed.2011-11-24T14:30:45+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Video of my #osdc2011 talk last week "The Art of Writing Small Programs" is already up: http://ur1.ca/61j752011-11-17T00:06:28+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I'm at #osdc11 this week - speaking later today about "The Art of Writing Small Programs"voted for "No"
2011-11-03T09:12:27+00:00 To: Evan Prodromou, Public
2011-08-26T23:05:14+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I'm at #kiwipycon this weekend - come and say hi if you're around too.2011-08-19T11:04:20+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Today I was somewhat surprised to learn that malaria is a problem for penguins!2011-08-15T23:58:42+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I feel I've somehow slipped from NZ to Narnia - always winter, never christmas2011-07-22T04:33:39+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I've written a new blog post about th Xapian 1.3.x development series: http://survex.com/~olly/blog/xapian/xapian-1.3-branched.htmlThe Xapian Project, The Xapian Project shared this.
2011-06-09T07:19:35+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Password requirements "Must be at least 6 characters long", but without further explanation I'm not allowed 9Z*A.6iCU#ths)*OKtV=K#IEJ:oe@,#r2011-04-21T07:10:45+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Getting ready for the final day of #ecir2011 in Dublin. Looks like there are some particularly interesting talks today.2011-04-21T18:20:03+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: a(n) person, Public
Racing @rboulton to Dublin airport (we bought return tickets with different bus companies). Think he's winning.2011-04-09T03:07:26+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: a(n) person, a(n) person, Public
Initial analysis of !gsoc applications to !xapian http://survex.com/~olly/blog/xapian/xapian-gsoc-applications-for-2011.htmlThe Xapian Project, The Xapian Project shared this.
2011-03-21T07:03:35+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
I tried xapian-core out of curiousity - it only fails on one thing (calling a macro with an empty argument, which is undefined in C++98)2011-03-12T06:07:28+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Cool visualisation of how seismic stations in the USA moved in reaction to the big #quake in Japan: http://www.iris.edu/spud/gmv/48412011-03-11T03:22:07+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Some days I barely even manage to start procrastinating2011-03-02T21:41:45+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: Public
Surprised to find one of the bus routes I used to take home from school has a wikipedia page: http://ur1.ca/3dhch2011-05-02T13:42:05+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: a(n) person, Public
I (and other !xapian folk) will be at the "search event": CB2 coffee house, Cambridge, UK Tues evening http://searchevent.org/meetup-2011-12011-02-10T02:12:24+00:00 in Wellington, New Zealand To: a(n) person, Public
Worked in an office for the first time in nearly 9 years: http://ur1.ca/369z8 (at #jelly at boost, thanks to @timclicks & co)