BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Alpine Skiing | Baxter: Blown out of proportion

Britain's best skier for two decades, Alain Baxter, got caught up in the middle of a political row when he turned up at the Winter Olympics with a new hairstyle.

The slalom specialist, who was 11th in the world last season, had his hair dyed blue with the cross of St Andrew on it to show the world he was Scottish.

But he was immediately told he would not be able to compete with the new hairstyle because it could be deemed a political statement, which is against International Olympic Committee rules.

I seem to recall a number of other 'patriotic' hairdos over the course of the winter olympics. Why would they pick on Baxter?

I'm recovering from writer's cramp! As the academic selector for Undergraduate Admissions I've personally signed 554 letters of invitation to applicants that have been made unconditional or conditional offers to study one of our undergraduate degrees.

I'm covering VM in my Computer Architecture lectures at the moment so I must recommend the following sample chapter to my students - System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition: Chapter 4: Memory:

In this chapter, I'll describe how memory is physically implemented, the mechanics of how the system manages memory, and how paging and swapping function at a system level. I'll give you some tools you can use to analyze your memory use, and explain how to work with swap space. Finally, I'll cover mechanisms to address some common memory performance problems.

Study: Ability to invent inspires engineers - Tech News - CNET.com

A new survey aims to dispel stereotypes about engineers and others who work in technological or scientific fields, emphasizing that most decided to enter their professions "to invent, design and discover."

The survey from a scientific-software company explains that most engineers are highly creative, entrepreneurial types with a desire to change the world--or at least some small corner of it.

The Mulle kybernetiK XMLRPC Framework

A framework implementing XML-RPC in Objective-C.

Cool! It's been a loooong time since I used Objective-C. It's great to see a resurgence in its popularity due to Mac OS X and Cocoa.

I'm watching the winter olympics women's curling final. It's the 10th and final end with the scores tied at 3-3. The GB team have the last stone. In 15 minutes or so we'll know if the Scots ladies win gold. It's a tense match.

Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step - WebReference.com

Yay! The Scottish girls reach the semi-finals. Next up the Canadians ;-) - BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Curling | GB curlers reach semi-final

Rhona Martin's women curlers clinched a semi-final spot after beating Germany 9-5 in their second tie-breaker.

The British team were set to leave the Winter Olympics after losing their final group match on Monday.

They relied on Switzerland beating Germany to give them a second bite at reaching the semis.

The Swiss did just that, but Martin's team still had to negotiate two tie-breakers, first against Sweden and the second against the Germans.

They defeated the Swedes 6-4 and then booked a showdown against Canada after brushing aside Germany.

via Scripting News - Apple's Working with CSS - Introduction to CSS Layout

There aren't many web developers who have not at least tried using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define typography and simple page attributes such as background and text color. These days more and more developers are pushing CSS even further, eschewing tables and embracing CSS as a web page layout tool. In this article I'll explain why CSS is in many ways preferable to using tables for layout, and then I'll show you some CSS layout techniques using a complete re-coding of the Apple Internet Developer home page as an example.

According to my watch this posting will be made at 2 minutes past 8 on the 20th February, 2002 - 20:02 - 20/02 - 2002

EE Times - Toshiba and MIPS to co-develop 64-bit microprocessor

Toshiba Corp. and MIPS Technologies Inc. late today announced plans to co-develop next-generation, 64-bit microprocessors, based on MIPS' code-named "Amethyst" RISC processor core.

Thanks for being a good sport Jim ;-) - BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Curling | Medal joy for GB curlers

Britain's women curlers are guaranteed a silver medal at least after winning through to the Olympic final.

They claimed a tense 6-5 semi-final win over odds-on favourites Canada.

In Thursday's final, Britain will meet Switzerland, who defeated the US 9-4 in the other semi-final.

The defeat of Canada is already being hailed as the greatest win in British curling history.

I'm just about to watch the highlights on BBC 2!

via hbwt - Athletes of Evil. Quite appropriate when watching the winter olympics on the tube. V. funny.

The highlights of BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Luge and Skeleton | Coomber claims bronze for Britain have just been run. With a bronze (today) and at least a silver (tomorrow), this guarantees Britain's best medal haul since 1948, when they won two bronzes! At least GB are in the medal table ;-)

Doxygen

Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft and KDE-DCOP flavors) and C.

It can help you in three ways:

1. It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LATEX ) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.
2. Doxygen can be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. This can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. The relations between the various elements are be visualized by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.
3. You can even `abuse' doxygen for creating normal documentation (as I did for this manual).