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			<title>Brad Christensen</title>
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	<title>Vala Adventures</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Our relationship is fairly love-hate.

[image=95 size=full lsize=full]

The app doesn't actually completely do what it is supposed to yet, but it runs a server (which I can send messages to from the terminal), saves settings, and most importantly syncs all of my contacts with Google. Yay!

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5th Feb 2012 Update &mdash; <a href="http://christensen.co.nz/crate/1328427703.png">Android application receiving messages and sending notifications to computer</a> [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Just another Android Remote Control</title>
	<link>http://christensen.co.nz/2011/08/just-another-android-remote-control/</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[As a computer science student living on campus at the halls of residence, one often runs out of things to do while the less fortunate majority are busy writing essays or crunching numbers. Also part of my course, my friend Richard introduced me to the world of Android programming when he thought he'd take a crack at creating an application that would automate the connection via captive portal to the campus ISP, <a href="https://www.lightwire.co.nz">Lightwire</a> (since there is no wireless PPPoE [...]]]></description>
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	<title>I call myself a programmer with artistic tendencies</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[That's really what Macs are all about, crafted by developers who realise that perfection is paramount. Mac developers entertain the idea that anyone can make something work after enough trial and error, but there is a grand difference between it working and working well. In the artistic world, design doesn't have to be perfect, and on the contrary, imperfection often creates the most magnificent works. Truly inspired art is almost never the result of hard slavery over elaborate details, because  [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Idea for next time I have to give a prizegiving speech</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Brad Christensen, and let's be honest: this is going to take forever. Part of my job is to try to make the process as painless as possible.

I'm all about radical new ideas and deliberately doing things differently, as you can see. And I'm also all about pulling weird blogging topics out of the blue as I am walking to my Psychology lectures with little else on my mind. How fascinating a life I must live. If I remembered the password for my FTP account by heart I would fix my "ab [...]]]></description>
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	<title>From Linux, With Love</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[I was <a href="http://aaronpearce.com/articles/switching-to-osx/">reading a post</a> the other day by my good friend Mister Aaron Pearce about his experience having totally switched from Windows to OS X as a primary development environment. I've already <a href="http://informer.rsbandb.com/article/2010/09/4386/pro-choice.htm">written a guest article</a> for the RSBANDBInformer! about the variety among operating systems which somewhat highlights the degree to which Linux is ignored by application [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Yearbook</title>
	<link>http://christensen.co.nz/2010/11/yearbook/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[<strong>N.S.</strong> Any particular favourite quote you would like to leave us with?
<strong>P.</strong> Too many to count. One that springs to mind is this: 'People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.' [...]]]></description>
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	<title>On the Nature of Blogging</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[What use is a blog if one does not enjoy writing for it? The purpose my blog serves is more that of personal satisfaction than anything else. Something to look back on and laugh, or cringe as the case may be. As such, one of the goals I have made as of restarting the blog is to implement several different writing styles - again, for my own benefit, more than anything else - mainly because it's <em>fun</em>. And something even more fun to read in hindsight.

The last post I made was extremely o [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Midinception</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[<strong>November 1</strong>
Every time I clean: calm.
How I can feel calm while sucking cobwebs into the robot abyss is, surely at very least, questionable. It makes sense though. It makes sense that it doesn't make sense. So beautiful a task to be granted the flattering term of chore, really.
This day, however, no cleaning should occur. Not in the strictest sense of the word.
The early hours of the morning are unfortunately those hours that offer the least distractions. Often the same hours [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Because of Nostalgia</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[For more than a few reasons now this looks like an opportune moment to resurrect Bradpad.

First of all, my music playlist just stopped, so I can think again. That is always a plus. I never did understand how it was possible to do things like studying with music playing in the background. Photoshopping is fine as most of the time one as an idea in one's head and the work required to realise that idea is mundane tinkering. Coding is about half way - probably for me because it's enjoyable and I  [...]]]></description>
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	<title>Final Words on the Saddening State of RuneWire</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[I acknowledge that it has indeed been quite some time since I last wrote a post for this blog, let alone a well thought out one, or even a post that meant something to me. I'd go back as far as at least July 2008... and before that, I really don't think there's anything. I haven't written anything remotely meaningful here and, it having been almost eleven months since last writing, I think it goes without saying that I don't intend to.

Today however is a small exception, whereby I need to wri [...]]]></description>
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