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		<title>Latex on Karmic Koala</title>
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I needed latex this morning.  My quick tip for installing it on Ubuntu Karmic Koala is to install Texmaker via the &#8220;Ubuntu Software Centre&#8221; (which you should be able to find at the bottom of the Applications menu) and then install the

 texlive-fonts-recommended
 texlive-fonts-extra

packages on the command line with aptitude.  This sorted me out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2010/02/01/latex-on-karmic-koala/</link>
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		<title>Eclipse + Ubuntu + Groovy pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago the v2 Groovy Eclipse plugin was released, but sadly I&#8217;m still not able to use it on my Ubuntu desktop because of a fairly convoluted set of configuration problems.
The first is that the linux download of eclipse doesnt work very well in the latest version of Ubuntu (Karmic Koala).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2010/01/19/eclipse-ubuntu-groovy-pain/</link>
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		<title>Insert expletive (in a good way)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m absolutely gobsmacked by the list of datasets that the City of London has declared it will publish today.  This is a huge democratising step that I am very impressed by.   I dont know the back story &#8211; in my experience this sort of thing takes years to happen &#8211; but I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2010/01/07/insert-expletive/</link>
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		<title>Scripting languages in Java &#8211; manipulating an EMF model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently attempting to embed a scripting engine into a Java application. The Java Scripting API means this exercise should be quite straightforward (at least to get something up and running) and there is a huge choice of script languages to choose from so one of them ought to match my requirements, right?
I&#8217;m taking baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2009/12/04/scripting-languages-in-java-manipulating-an-emf-model/</link>
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		<title>Delicious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using the online favourites repository service, delicious for a few years now and it&#8217;s something I really like.  I add a link several times a week these days, much more so than I update my blog &#8211; so I&#8217;ve added an &#8220;Interesting&#8230;&#8221; widget on the right.
When I save a link to delicious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2009/11/12/delicious/</link>
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		<title>Siftables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Came across siftables today for the first time via a link from O&#8217;Reilly Radar, which referenced a post from that very nice Phil chap&#8217;s coverage at ETech (wish I was there).  This is very nice kit.  The video on the siftables site is really quite exciting.   And it shows footage from a media lab &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2009/03/12/siftables/</link>
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		<title>news.ycombinator.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered news.ycombinator.com and I&#8217;m loving it.  It&#8217;s another social link aggregator like digg or reddit, but I find the quality of the links excellent.  I have space in my schedule for about two good, longish articles a day, and this site is producing more than I can handle.  An embarrassment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2008/03/20/newsycombinatorcom/</link>
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		<title>Codename raisin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a pill that signals when it&#8217;s been swallowed, allowing a patient to track their adherence to the drug&#8217;s regime and, if combined with other sensors, the impact of the treatment (thus allowing them to customise the regime in an informed manner).   Well someone&#8217;s built one.  Very sci fi.
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		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2008/03/20/codename-raisin/</link>
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		<title>ArgKit: An argumentation toolkit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I released an open source project: ArgKit.  It&#8217;s the synthesis of some work that I&#8217;ve been doing in the last couple of years and I&#8217;m very pleased with it.  I&#8217;ve released early (ish) on this one, so there is more work to come in the same vein, time and attention allowing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2008/01/24/argkit-an-argumentation-toolkit/</link>
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		<title>The importance of being willing to ask stupid questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I spent a day interviewing candidates for a programmer position.   One of the candidates discussed things that he looked for in an organisation.  Two things in particular struck me: He wanted to work in an organisation that, if he was making good progress, didn&#8217;t slow him down and that, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfdecent.net/2007/11/28/stupid_questions/</link>
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