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Summer 2009/2010 starts

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Formulae

— josh @ 20:39

I have a algorithm for detecting summer. Seven consecutive days in a row with a temperature of or above 20 degrees Celsius. I give you Summer, from the Bureau’s seven day forecast for Melbourne:
Forecast for Monday Max 20 Forecast for Tuesday Min 8 Max 24 Forecast for Wednesday Min 10 Max 25 Forecast for Thursday Min 12 Max 28 Forecast for Friday Min 16 Max 29 Forecast for Saturday Min 18 Max 28 Forecast for Sunday Min 16 Max 26I should also point out that I consider there to be two seasons in Melbourne: Nice-but-hot (summer-ish) and a-bit-iffy (winter-ish).

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Tue 2009-10-06

PDF vs XPS

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— daniel @ 12:44

It appears that almost nobody except Microsoft themselves are publishing documents in XPS format. Not really surprising — why would anybody use it over PDF, for which readers are near-universally installed?

Searching Google for XPS documents vs PDF documents:

Documents found by Google: PDF 292,000,000 XPS 20,700

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