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This isn't really an academic blog at
all. It just basically records the life and times of Derek J Corbett as he undertakes his
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Mon, 19 Nov 2007 |
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14:22 - Thesis Completed!
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After receiving notification back in July that my thesis had been accepted,
I spent the last few months rewriting it. Primarily addressing the recommended
emendations and fixing grammar, spelling and reference formatting throughout.
I finally got it printed on Tuesday 13/11 and had it bound at
Allbook Bindery in West Ryde.
I highly recommend them, they did a great job, and it was ready for me to pick up and
submit to the Faculty of Science Friday 16/11. So my thesis is finally completed
and submitted in its final form. Hooray!
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Sat, 31 Mar 2007 |
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12:05 - Thesis Submitted
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3 years and 361 days after I commenced my Ph.D. I have submitted it for assessment.
The title of my thesis is "Using Location Awareness in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". I hope to hear the results in 3 to 6 months.
Thanks to everyone who helped with my thesis. Especially those who took the time to proofread it.
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Sat, 17 Mar 2007 |
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22:18 - New Job!
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On Monday I start a new job as an IT Developer at Optiver. Really looking forward to it.
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 |
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22:49 - Nearly There.
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Only a few more sections to straighten out. Looking ok to make Sunday's target deadline.
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 |
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18:49 - The Final Countdown
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The Final Draft of my thesis will be completed by 18/03/2007.
If you would like to volunteer to proof read it please let me know.
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Tue, 23 Jan 2007 |
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Thu, 04 Jan 2007 |
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15:26 - Sensory Networks.
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I have started working at Sensory Networks as a software engineer
working on hardware based network security acceleration.
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Sun, 29 Oct 2006 |
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16:33 - Ad Loc
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Presented my paper Ad Loc: Location-based Infrastructure-free Annotation at ICMU 2006 in London, UK.
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Fri, 20 Oct 2006 |
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23:19 - Announcing My Engagement
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I would like to announce that as of 22/09 I am officially engaged to my wonderful fiancee Margaret. To celebrate we went out to dinner at the Flying Fish and the next day
threw a rather large party. Thanks to everyone for wishing us well!
We plan to be getting married August-September next year.
Derek and Margaret literally minutes after becoming engaged.
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Tue, 11 Jul 2006 |
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16:30 - Standard Deviation Multiplication
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When you want to multiply or divide average values
reported with their standard deviations, you don't simply add the standard deviations to produce the
final standarddeviation. Instead, you square the fractional standard deviations, add them, then take the square root of the sum to get the fractional
total deviation. If you have values A +- dA, B +- dB, ... and want to compute X = A*B*..., the total error
dX is then
- dX/X = sqrt( (dA/A)2 + (dB/B)2 +...)
Note that you will add the
squares of the errors even if you are dividing the actual values.
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16:27 - Standard Deviation Addition
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When you want to add or subtract average values
reported with their standard deviations, you don't simply add the standard deviations to produce the
final standarddeviation. Instead, you square the standard deviations, add them,
then take the square root of the sum.
- Stot = sqrt(S12 +
S22 + ...)
Note that you will add the squares of
the errors even if you are subtracting the actual values.
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Thu, 02 Feb 2006 |
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12:49 - Hola Mexico!!
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My brother and I are heading off to Mexico in just over a week's time. Here is a map of our trip.
I am really looking forward to it. At this stage the trip plan is basically.
Sydney->Tokyo->Vancouver->Mexico City->Merida->Playa del Carmen->Cancun->Mexico City->Sydney.
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Thu, 05 Jan 2006 |
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11:17 - Australia Vs. South Africa Cricket
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I went to the cricket yesterday at the SCG with my brother and some friends to watch Australia play South Africa.
It was a really good day. A friend took a photo of me while I was there. See if you can pick me out in the crowd.
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Thu, 03 Nov 2005 |
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16:54 - New Shoes.
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So I got some new shoes last weekend at Paul's Warehouse.
Pony City Wings Lo. They are pretty nice for $50.
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Tue, 18 Oct 2005 |
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15:27 - operator overload
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I am just putting this hint up here, because I did a google search for a solution and couldn't find an answer.
Hopefully anyone who makes this mistake in future and googles for an answer will find this page.
If you get an overloaded operator is ambiguous / ambiguity error when trying to compile some C++ code. Make sure you are including the .h files and not the source .cc or .cpp files because this will cause this error. It is a pretty silly mistake to make, but
one that is hard to diagnose.
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Fri, 14 Oct 2005 |
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20:10 - European Trip August 2005
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So I am Back in Sydney after my big European trip. I will put up some more updates soon! But for the time being here are some photos.
You can click on the red circles on the above map to see the photos of the places I visited.
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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 |
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21:41 - DeLuxembourg
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I went to Luxembourg on a coach trip with some of my friends from Aachen on 21/07/05. If you would like to check out some of the photos from my trip you can find them
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19:34 - Derek Rennt, Derek Spielt.
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A bit earlier this month I got quite sporting. The first sporting event I took part in was the Lousberg Lauf
which is a famous race in Aachen. It is a 5,555m race up and down a local hill
and each year about 2000 people, mainly university students, take part in it.
With not too much training I was able to finish the race in 26mins and 6seconds. Anyway it was alot of fun and in typical German style at the completion of the race most of the runners went directly for a cool beer and a bratwurst.
The other sporting event I was involved in was the RWTH Electro Faculty Soccer Tournament. I played for the LTI^2 side. We didn't do too badly, but we didn't win. I was the only person on our team to score any goals, but then again I was the striker. I
think I might take up indoor soccer when I get back to Australia.
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Tue, 05 Jul 2005 |
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23:30 - Long Time No Update.
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Sorry the updates on this page have been few and far between. I guess this is testament to how busy I have been.
The weekend of the 25/06 I went to
Eins Live Koenigstreffen. Which is the big annual local rock concert.
It is held in a sports Stadium in Herzogenrath, which is about 10 minutes up the train line from Aachen.
It just so happened that I ended up going with Jon, my friend from Oxford, as being finished with university for the semester he decided to come to
Germany for the weekend.
The Bands.
Tocotronic
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Tocotronic, weren't bad. they were a mixture of Brit pop and Shoegazing. Which might not sound too surprising, except they are German.
Hearing Britpop done in German is a bit strange.
Bloc Party
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Bloc Party have been one of my favourite bands this year. And the CD
Silent Alarm
is probably my favourite CD of 2005. So getting an oppurtunity to see them play live
was one of the key reasons I wanted to go to Koenigstreffen.
Anyway they certainly lived up to my expectations, and got a very positive response from the crowd.
In my opinion the music on their CD sometimes sounds a little over produced, but seeing them live, when their sound is stripped back a bit is certainly worth hearing.
Bloc Party was the highlight of the day for me.
Max Herre
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Max Herre is a German rapper. Rap in German works surprisingly well. The highlight was
"Esperanto". Esperanto is a song by Max Herre's old group Freundeskreis, which is sung half in Esperanto and half in Germaing idea. Pity Esperanto never took off as a language.
Mando Diao
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Hailing from Borlaenge in Sweden, Mando Diao do the crazy garage rock band thing, very well.
If you have heard any of their CDs you may think that they are a bit subdued. However live, they are anything but! Worth checking out if you get the chance.
Fettes Brot
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Fettes Brot to me are the German Beastie Boys. 3 guys, lots of humourous songs.
Sometimes their music is a bit incoherent. They will be doing a song, stop the music, tell a joke, and then start the song back up again.
I guess they are pretty much the typical German Party Band at the moment.
Gentleman
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Gentleman is a German Reggae singer. However, I think only one of his songs was actually in German. He preferred to sing in English with a heavy Jamaican accent. His music was quite good. Although he had an annoying habit of
singing the lyrics to his songs solo without his band, before doing the song with the band.
So in essence you got to hear everyone of his songs twice. He was very well liked by the crowd.
Franz Ferdinand
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With the worldwide success of the debut self-titled album Franz Ferdinand are certainly one of the most popular rock bands in the world at the moment.
Sometimes when a band or anything for that matter has such a large reputation, it is hard for them to live up to it in reality. This was not the case for Franz Ferdinand.
They were excellent live. The best part though was their last song, "This Fire" which closed out a great day of rock 'n' roll, hip hop and reggae.
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Tue, 07 Jun 2005 |
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23:45 - The End is Nigh!
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So I only have about 2months left in Aachen, and in that time ALOT of work to do.
BUT
I will be taking a month holiday in August around Europe.
This is my proposed route.
Aachen->Zurich->Rome->Venice->Vienna->Prague->Berlin->Copenhagen->Stockholm->Helsinki
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02:33 - Photo Journal
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I have been pretty busy lately... Hence not many posts written here. Hopefully quite soon I will have finished off my photo journal.
It is currently being developed at http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~dcorbett/photos/
Enjoy
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 |
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21:18 - Lipovitan-D
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It is Official Lipovitan-D is my new favourite drink
How could anyone not love a drink with the following ingredients:
Sugar...................18 g
Taurine.............. 1g
Caffeine..............0.05 g
Citric Acid............0.5 g
Glucuronoiactone..0.4g.
Inositol................ 50 mg
Niacinamide....... 20 mg
Pantothenol........ 5 mg
Vitamin B6..........5 mg
Vitamin B12..........5 mg
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Tue, 05 Apr 2005 |
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02:16 - Oecher Bend is NOT Luna Park!
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This is Luna Park in Melbourne. However Oecher Bend, the "Easter Show" like fair being held across the street from my apartment is not Luna Park. It is Oecher Bend. Here is the proof!
The Mysterious "Revue Der Illusionen" where one can see the miraculous Frau Ohne Kopf (Women with out a head) and conversely the Frau Ohne Korper (Women without a body)
I am a bit suspicious it might just be the one lady though.
Spinning Racer allows you to experience what it feels like to be in a car crash, without any of the insurance hassles!
The Jupiter Ferris Wheel is the most iconic thing about Oecher Bend, pity no one was riding it.
Or for that matter the Beach Party ride. But a good time was had by all!
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Sat, 02 Apr 2005 |
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00:20 - The Neighborhoodies Experiment
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A while ago I stumbled across the website www.neighborhoodies.com. The idea being that you can design
your own sweatshirt. Which to me seemed like a good idea as you can design something you would never be able to find in a shop.
So anyways I eventually decided to get one for myself. I wanted to get a shirt that said "Heiwa" which is romaji for the Japanese word for peace, which Kahne and I had got into the habit of exchanging as a greeting.
In Japan there is a chain of malls called Heiwado and their logo is a white dove on a green background, so I kind of appropriated this concept in designing my jumper. I filled out the form on the Neighborhoodies website
and sent them a picture of what I wanted my shirt to turn out like.
And this is what it turned out like.
Which was pretty much exactly what I was after. So I can highly recommend neighborhoodies, although they are a little expensive, especially with overseas shipping, you get a one of
unique clothing item only limited by your imagination.
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Tue, 29 Mar 2005 |
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22:03 - A Weekend in Paris
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I spent the Easter weekend in Paris, with Sally a friend from Sydney. On
Easter Sunday we took a sightseeing walk through Paris. On the map above
the red line shows the approximate route, and the blue dots can be clicked
on to show pictures I took from those points.
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 |
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20:20 - 2005-03-15
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Hannover Messe Bahnhof.
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05:05 - 2005-03-15
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Jazz at IDS Scheer. Who apparently have "Strategy to Process"?
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03:03 - 2005-03-15
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Me at the RWTH Booth.
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02:02 - 2005-03-15
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Samsung's 20GB Personal Mediacentre. Quite Nice!
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01:01 - 2005-03-15
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World Cyber Games 2005. So we're encouraging people to play computer games competitively now? 1337.
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00:00 - 2005-03-15
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Ronaldo. "Danke Siemens, Danke Deutschland!"
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Mon, 14 Mar 2005 |
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23:23 - 2005-03-14
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Messe Architecture.
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23:23 - 2005-03-14
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Dakar Rally Motorcycles.
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23:23 - 2005-03-14
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An Avenue.
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23:23 - 2005-03-14
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The Convention Centre.
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22:22 - 2005-03-14
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An Amiga 1000.
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22:22 - 2005-03-14
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Old Computer Display. Wooden Computing.
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22:22 - 2005-03-14
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Old Computer Display.
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22:22 - 2005-03-14
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A Collection of Wireless Sensor Devices.
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20:20 - 2005-03-14
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Or Dune Buggies with "Corporate Solutions".
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