They say that as one gets older it becomes harder to learn new tricks and try new things. Accordingly I count myself lucky to be able to try new things even at my advanced age of 40 (and we’re not talking dog years here). Read the rest of this entry »
Hi, Im Sprogger and I would like to pass on a few tips I have received in my 12 years of playing golf. None of these thoughts, tips or ideas are all mine. In fact they have come from many people, golf teachers and pros, playing friends and the odd article that I found helpful in a magazine somewhere and what works for me. Read the rest of this entry »
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Well the book said that the ascension for this hike was only about 300m but I think the book was written by dirty filthy liars. Read the rest of this entry »
The wife said “if you make it happen we’ll go”; well I made it happen… Read the rest of this entry »
Got this from a friend….made me laugh. Don’t know the source but kudos to the author. Read the rest of this entry »
We had some challenges and near drownings (exaggeration) trying to ford the Highwood River but once we got going it was beautiful. I think we ended up walking about 9km and I had to ford the river about seven times (carrying kids across) while Shareen forded a measly four (to find a lost camera on the other side). Read the rest of this entry »
Introduction
A Trie (pronounce “try”) is a tree-based data structure in order to support fast pattern matching. The “trie” comes from the word “retrieval”.
This structure is particularly useful for any application requiring prefix based (read “starts with”) pattern matching.A good example is any kind of application where we let the user type and quickly come up with a list of words starting with what the user typed in. Read the rest of this entry »
This book was a very good read but also an eye opener.I guess at my age I’m still naive enough to think that people have a certain inane empathy towards other human beings in this world.
This appears to be true when you see the world come together to try and help victims of the Tsunami in Asia, or of the hurricanes that devastated New Orleans.
But it chills my blood to read about the inhumanity that is purposely developed in other human beings for the purpose of taking the life of other human beings. Read the rest of this entry »