"There are those who call me... Tim..."
Note: this page is always under heavy reconstruction - but check back soon for more information on what I actually do!

Any interested parties may download my honours thesis in either gzipped postscript or pdf format. It still contains many typos - don't say I didn't warn you!

Click here for a guide to installing a fantastic document preparation system, including GNU Emacs and LaTeX, on a Micro$oft Windows system. (Somewhat out-of-date these days, but ah well..)

Thumbs Up!
2/01 Thumbs up to William Gibson for his latest novel, All Tomorrow's Parties. (Get your excerpt here.) I bought this immediately when I saw it, Bill having sat at the pinnacle of my must read list for years. I wasn't disappointed! ATP is the most recent addition to the saga which began with Virtual Light and continued in Idoru. As with much of Gibson's work, this book is not so much a story as it is a collection of overlapping accounts of a story seen through the mind's eyes of many characters. As always, Gibson has handled this stunningly well, his human cameras being chosen from all over the social scale - each having their unique perspective on a situation, seemingly without regard for their influence on it. Gibson's world is lovingly crafted and instantly believable, a world in which the key players are usually the homeless, the intellectually disabled and those who aren't lucky enough to possess a body - a world described perfectly by the poetic introspection his characters frequently entertain. A beautiful book, in every sense of the word.

8/00 Huge thumbs up to Neal Stephenson for his fantastic novel, Cryptonomicon. (The first few chapters are available for download from the book's website.) As much an historical text as it is a techno-thriller, Cryptonomicon is an account of the world's reaction to people ahead of their time. If crypto, data-havens, TEMPEST, the development of digital computers or even old war films are your thing, then read it. If they're not, read it anyway - the theme with your name on it is probably the one I forgot to mention. Onya Neal!

Some Friends
Steve's Homepage - keep up-to-date with what's going on in the Fight for the Official Mascot!
Bec's Homepage
Rachem's Homepage
Tamyka's Homepage
Chris's PGP key - dear oh dear, what happened to your Digital Revolution site, buddy?

I'm also keeping a page of scanned photos from various parties that have occurred in the last year. Click here for the funny pictures! :)

Some Links
Slashdot.org - "news for nerds, stuff that matters"
www.SlackWare.com - clean, efficient and to the point. This is the most UNIX(R)-like Linux distribution you will find. Get Slack!
LPG v2.5.0 - A bunch of scripts written by Paul "Rusty" Russell which can be used to generate a graph showing the relationships between every function in every file of the Linux kernel from the source!
mirror.aarnet.edu.au - If you live with a UQ dialup account or are simply bandwidth conscious, this is the place to go for software.
Numerical Recipes in C - A complete PDF version of the book.
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics - I haven't laughed so hard in ages!
Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 - have one on me!

Comments, queries and insults should be directed at
vaughan@physics.uq.edu.au

I was once informed by a colleague that, as I had managed to become
proficient using vi, I must have far too much spare time.
I informed him that if he too became proficient using vi,
he might also have far too much spare time.

life is short, code is not, vi rules.