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\p{He was also nice enough to give me free access to the church whenever I want to use it, so I have been chanting the evening office there according to the Use of Sarum. To avoid keeping 17 places open in 3 books simultaneously, I transcribed large parts of the Sarum vespers and compline office into Forester. You can see the results [here](sarum-26-01-22) for example, but there are more that can be found by searching "Ordo". They use my chant plugins. Fr. [Oliver](obrw) will join me for the [vespers](sarum-26-02-03) and [compline](sarum-26-02-03-b) of St. Blaise next week. }
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\p{On the way back from our chat I stopped by a charity shop and got this old illustrated KJV bible for free:}
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\date{2026-03-22}
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\import{table-macros}
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\def\percent{\startverb%\stopverb
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\parent{loc-000P}
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\title{Fifth Sunday of Lent 2026}
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\tag{cmc}
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\author{liamoc}
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\quote{Iudica me Deus, et discérne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab hómine iníquo et dolóso éripe me: quia tu es Deus meus, et fortitúdo mea.
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\p{This final Sunday before Holy Week at [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) was an Evensong sunday, so I sang for the morning
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service and directed our choir for evensong. In the morning I sang Dowland's [In this trembling shadow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5wznr0HAnU) accompanied by Callum Tolhurst-Close on the organ.}
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\quote{\poem{
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\line{In this trembling shadow, cast}
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\line{From those boughes which thy winds shake}
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\line{Farre from humane troubles plac’d}
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\line{Songs to the Lord would I make}
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\line{Darknesse from my minde then take}
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\line{For thy rites none may begin}
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\line{Till they feele thy light within.}
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\p{For Evensong, I sang the \em{Venite} chant followed by the Choir singing Stainer's [Hail, Gladdening Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYmHdJJAyeA), ferial preces and responses, my own \em{tonus peregrinus} arrangement with organum for the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis from Orlando Gibbons' [Short Service](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejmLREGDWo). For the anthem we sang Wesley's [Lead Me, Lord](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwxmEKdIQw). This
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\line{Lead me, Lord.}
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\line{Lead me in thy righteousness.}
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\line{Make thy way plain before my face.}
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\line{For it is thou, Lord,}
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\line{Thou, Lord, only,}
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\line{That makest me dwell in safety.}
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\date{2026-03-22}
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\title{Reviving the Apple IIe for the open day}
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\p{On the 28th of March (the same day as our [choir concert](loc-003K)), we have the ANU open day. I'll be there in the morning, showcasing some of my
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retro computer collection. I decided to write a 140KB program for my Apple IIe (just enough to fit on one floppy image) that prospective students can use to learn about our degree programmes. }
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\p{This was about 1000 lines of assembly: the entire thing is actually graphics, I don't use the Apple II text mode at all. It's actually quite impressive that the Apple IIe is fast enough to do this kind of bitmap rendering. But it truly is a bizarre system: the addressing for the bitmap data is super weird (all over the place), and each byte of bitmap data is 7 (not 8) pixels of data. Still, it means you can do some impressive graphics considering when the
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\p{It also has a screensaver to stop the burn in on my amber monochrome monitor (which has the right colours for ANU). }
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\title{Humanity in CS/PL, now more than ever}
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\p{I really recommend [this article](https://koronkevi.ch/posts/humanity.html) by [[koronkebitch]]. It perfectly expresses some of the same thoughts that I've been having about CS, both research and teaching, in this AI-polluted age.}
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\p{I am only in this business because of the people. My PhD advisor [Gabi](gckeller) and her husband [Manuel](chak), my mentor [Kai](kaie), my collaborators [Rob](rvg) and [Peter](hoefner) and [Christine](crizkallah) and [Zilin](zilinc), my colleagues [Ohad](ohad) and [James](jamesmckinna) and [Sam](slindley), and most of all my students over the years, among whom in particular I would name Andrew, Jiyeong, Tammy, Emmett, [Amy](sandwichman), [Ke](keshen) and [Rayhana](rayhana).}
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\p{I believe LLMs and related Generative AI technologies are, in almost all cases, spiritually harmful and detrimental to human flourishing. And if that isn't
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bad enough, most of these technologies are controlled by harmful companies and deeply immoral people who massively contribute to human exploitation and
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environmental degradation. I refuse to use, conduct research on, or consume the output of any such systems. If you send me AI slop, I \em{do} judge you and I \em{will} think less of you. I am not interested in hearing any excuses for using the technology ("\em{I only use it for..}", "\em{But it's okay if..}"). If you feel compelled to say something like this to me, this is probably because deep down you \em{know} these technologies are harmful, both to you and to those around you, but you want to feel okay about how you use them. I will not grant you absolution. I do not use this technology, and neither should you. }
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\title{Weeknotes 2026-W12}
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\date{2026-03-25}
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\p{These weeknotes are even more late because I was occupied by my singing engagements and then I caught a cold.}
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