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It looks like the blogging community is expanding! Here is the Hungarian Prime Ministers blog: http://blog.amoba.hu

Better still he even has a video!!!  Check out the following link on the age: http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//003599.html

Looks like another round of letter writing and campaigning. Thanks to the Indonesian government and AFP…..

Follow these links for more information on the Bali 9 sentence:
http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/death_penalty/afp.php
http://yourhumanrights.com and specifically http://yourhumanrights.com/?p=15
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1570036.htm

Follow these links to campaign against the death penalty:
http://www.amnesty.org.au/Act_now/action_centre/adp
Example letters will be on yourhumanrights.com in the next few days.

Well Krust has returned from her Japanese adventure! I have posted a few photographs of her trip. The photos are largely from Kyoto and Hokkaidō. Follow this link to see the these photos.

Ok here it comes!  This content will also be added onto a dedicated page as I write it….

Requirements to follow this tutorial:
1.PC with Windows XP
2.Internet connections
3.A little bit of time.

Downloading and installing ruby
Go to this link:http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

Download which ever the version of ruby that you feel like using (I used ruby184-16p1.exe )

Once the file has downloaded double click the executable to set-up the ruby language on your pc.
Select c:\ruby as your installation directory.  Make sure all of the installable packages are selected.
Let it rip!

Open the ruby shell (irb)

Ruby has a shell environment in which you can try out some basic commands.  This environment is called the irb.

To open the shell navigate to the following directory:

c:\ruby\bin

and then double click on the irb executable.

A ruby shell will then open.

Lets play with some ruby commands

type the following commands and press enter:

Findout the length of a string:
“my name is mud”.length

Reverse the order of numbers in an:
“1 2 3 4 5”.reverse

Add two numbers:
1 + 1

Assign a variable and its contents:
myname =  “jason adcock”

Display the variable:
puts myname

Assign the reverse of the variable myname to the variable: jumble name
jumblename = myname.reverse

Capitalize the word brisbase:
“brisbane”.capitalize

Assign an array of values:
myarray = [ 1, ‘cow’, ‘dog’, ‘apple’, 22, 33]

Display the first element in the array:
myarray [1]

Display the entire array:
myarray

What is the length of the array”
myarray.length

Print the array 5 times”
5.times {puts myarray}