There's a beautiful sunset outside. Is there one for you?

rsync: tridge, rusty, dgibson and I talked about plans for rsync. I typed up a little summary of where it is and where it's going. If you've used it and not been satisfied, please respond. Working at OzLabs is very very good: people here are so bright and personable.

i have sinned: Finished my slides for PbD2000. I've been appropriately ribbed for using PowerPoint, but my weak defense remains: (a) Sun Tsu told me to know the enemy, and (b) it's actually really good. I've used MagicPoint in the past, and it's great for presenting outlines, but ppt is just excellent at supporting vector drawings and helping rearrange the show quickly as people ask questions. I tried StarOffice, which is like a poor Office clone, and KPresenter, which seemed feature-poor. Hmm.

I'm leaving for Quebec on Thursday. Yay! Twenty hours on a plane. Boo!

85HP rear wheel @ 13000rpm: ajv, I've not yet had the pleasure of doing the Great Ocean Road on a motorbike, though I've been up to Lorne in a car. I will get there one day, and I think a 600 is about right: enough torque for those corners, and not missing out on the short straights. It's a little far from Canberra, but someday I'll stop overnight in Melbourne and do it properly.

16842: I wrote two solutions in Python to ajv's question. The second is .. brutal, I think: not what your CS lecturer would like, but very straightforward:

...
def check_2(d):
    return d[0] + d[1] == d[2] - 1 and d[0] * 8 == d[2]
...
for d[0] in r10:
    for d[1] in r10:
        if check_1(d): continue
        for d[2] in r10:
            if not check_2(d): continue
            for d[3] in r10:
                if not check_3(d): continue
                for d[4] in r10:
                    if check_4(d):
                        print d