Local Government Areas and IDs

The ABS have made their data creative commons; but it's still a pain to get to the data you want.

I'm trying to reconcile LGAs against our work application, freebase, and the census data - but it's a pain.

To make things a bit easier for others treading this path, here's a spreadsheet of LGAs and ABS ids for them, 2006

Most Ridiculous Design Ever

At work, we've got roaming profiles. I've just spent 20 minutes logging on, because I have a 7-8gb shared mailbox in my outlook.ost; and that makes things unhappy.

What beggars belief is how you move your outlook.ost.

Call me stupid; but I rather thought we'd mastered the basics of a "move" file within our operating systems.
Apparently, the outlook 2007 team has some reason to make that impossible to do - the user interface fights you every step of the way.

Unless you disable a tonne of options which should have no bearing on your ability to move, copy, or change the location of your offline mailboxes; Outlook will not let you touch this setting.

Ridiculous.

Home automation and eating

I want a Unitech HT580 Wireless Barcode Scanner; but cheaper.

I want to holster the thing on the side of my cupboard or fridge; so when I'm loading up the fridge I can quickly tag barcoded products.

Most importantly; I want to be able to sync that with my computer to make an instant shopping list.

Failing all of this; I'll just have an internet fridge please

I'm a research subject

Check out The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Human Computation Engine, figure 4.

This application alone received more than 1 million contributions over 14 months with the top contributor casting more than 120k judgments and the top 10 contributors casting half of the total judgments.

Beats the heck out of medical research!