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        <description>Fresh from the plantation</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines Business Class – SQ 631 | July 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Flew SQ 631 from Haneda to Singapore in Business Class this July. Excellent service, spacious seat, and a smooth daytime flight. Singapore Airlines continues to impress with comfort and attention to d ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My First JAL Flight]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Vlog review of my first JAL flight - an economy seat on JL724 from Kuala Lumpur to Narita.

My First JAL Flight ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[1st Virgin Lounge Visit]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2024/12/27/_1st-virgin-lounge-visit/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We recently visited the Melbourne Virgin Australia Lounge, which was only my second ever visit to an airport lounge so wa ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Caravan life]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2022/09/22/caravan-life/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We've just recently started living in a caravan and we're absolutely loving it. Below are a few shots of our caravan.

caravan1
! ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[UPDATED Sourdough Bread Recipe]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2021/02/22/sourdough-bread-recipe/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sourdough Bread

Ingredients
Flour 567g
Salt 2 teaspoons
Sourdough starter 180ml or 113g
Water 250ml or 340g
Mix t ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kokorice V5]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2021/02/12/kokorice-v5/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I've migrated my blog to VuePress :tada:.

This is version 5 of this blog. Below I've listed previous versions of this blog:

[SimpleBlog running on Plone](/2004/08/09 ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi-based Gate Control]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2020/11/29/raspberry-pi-based-gate-control/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I recently built a React web app running on a Raspberry-Pi to control our front gate. It also has a simple Homebridge interface allowing it to be controlled by Siri. You can checkout a video demonstra ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Understanding human language with Python - Alyona Medelyan]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/understanding-human-language-with-python-alyona/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Android Auto: hands-free operation via voice commands.

WordLense: “augmented reality translation”

“Her” movie in reality: “Siri will you marry me? Siri doesn’t seem to be available.”

Segmentation c ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Surprise features that you didn’t ask for - Mike Haworth]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/surprise-features-that-you-didnt-ask-for-mike/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Server Side Request Forgery

Could access services on localhost
Access other hosts in DMZ
Bypass host-based authentication systems

Vulnerable systems:

memcached
couchdb

Urllib: accepts fi ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[PyPy.js: What? How? Why? - Ryan Kelly]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/pypyjs-what-how-why-ryan-kelly/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[@rfkelly

Mozilla - protecting & promoting the web.

The Web? Technology + Culture (open - don’t need to submit to ‘web pool’, ubiquitous, secure, trustworthy)

> “For Mozilla, anything that the W ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Multimedia programming using Gstreamer (and, of course, Python) - Douglas Bagnall]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/multimedia-programming-using-gstreamer-and-of/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Pipelines consist of linked elements.

Elements:

Link
Source
Sink (file, net, screen, etc)
Demux, tee

$ gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=video.ogv ! oggdemux ! theoradec ! autovideosink
 ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lightning Talks]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/lightning-talks/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[LCA: 12-16 January 2015

Program online in next year or 2.

Singapore also put in proposal for future LCA.

6-700 attendees hoped.

Grabbed 30TBs of .co.nz internet.

2 days of catering, hacking.

If ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deploying a Django application using Juju - Tim Penhey]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/deploying-a-django-application-using-juju-tim/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Or “How I used Juju to deploy my Django app up to AWS”

Used backbone.js

Juju is written in Go. Service orchestration in the cloud.

Encapsulate ap ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Automated Deployment with Ansible - Juergen Brendel]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/automated-deployment-with-ansible-juergen/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Configuration - system packages, settings, users, apps

CM Tools - describe the desired state. E.g. ensure all system packages are updated.

Puppet, chef - feel bit like working with Java.

Salt, Ansi ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2nd Keynote: A Snake in Space - The rise of scientific Python in Astrodynamics and Astronomy - Francesco Biscani]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/14/_2nd-keynote-a-snake-in-space-the-rise-of/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, European Space Agency.

PaGMO and Astropy - will mainly talk about PaGMO as wrote this and more familiar with this.

PaGMO - Parallel Global Multiobjective Opti ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Python Rocks Solaris - James McPherson]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/13/why-python-rocks-solaris-james-mcpherson/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[“Python is a systems-programming language also”.

Why use? Lots of open source software uses Python.
pstack: see what Python process is doing.

Manage boot environment, managing package installation, ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Python is slow, make it faster with C - Ben Shaw]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/13/python-is-slow-make-it-faster-with-c-ben-shaw/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[C Module - traditional way. Write your functions in C (usually just wrapper code).

CTypes - newer way since 2006. Integration a bit more difficult. Great to use if don’t need Python types, except ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Packaging a Python desktop application using PyInstaller - Glenn Ramsey]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/13/packaging-a-python-desktop-application-using/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Gathers the dependencies for your script and puts them all in a directory. Doesn’t actually create an installer and doesn’t include the source code.

Works on Windows, OSX, Linux.

Works with Python 2 ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Using Python to test industrial control system frameworks at CERN - Andrew Amesbury]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/13/using-python-to-test-industrial-control-system/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[CERN: European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

Potentially setback 3 years if test failed as can take 3 months to run test.

CERN: 5 million data po ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[External dependencies in web apps: system libs are not that scary - Francois Marier]]></title>
            <link>https://kokorice.org/2014/09/13/external-dependencies-in-web-apps-system-libs-are/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Common example: 250 external dependencies, 8 different copies of same app, 4 different versions.

Have to patch same app 4x.

Only use Python libraries that are packaged for Debian.

Only use th ...]]></description>
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