I’m a British Computer Scientist, currently studying for a PhD at UC Santa Cruz. I’ve lived and worked Bristol, UK and Wellington, New Zealand. If you’re looking for me in an academic capacity, visit my academic pages. They will be much more useful to you. eval(unescape('d%6fc%75%6de%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74e%28%27%3Ca%20%68%72ef%3D%22%26%23109%3Ba%26%23105%3B%6c%26%23116%3B%26%23111%3B%3A%26%2399%3B%26%23104%3B%26%23114%3B%26%23105%3B%26%23115%3B%26%2364%3B%26%2399%3B%26%23104%3B%26%23114%3B%26%23105%3B%26%23115%3B%26%2346%3B%26%23116%3B%26%23111%3B%22%3EE%6da%69%6c%3C%2fa%3E%27%29%3B'));PhotosLinkedInMusicTumblr (3.0; @chrislewis)http://blog.chris.to/<p>Just remembered that Steve Lamacq is on 6 Music. Love it. Dude knows his music.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/863541260http://blog.chris.to/post/863541260Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:27:01 -0700<p>Went skimboarding in the evening sun. Water was warm, beach empty, had a lot of fun. I’m not coming back, UK. I hope you understand.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/860383891http://blog.chris.to/post/860383891Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:27:16 -0700<p>Hey, thanks Facebook. “Do you like ‘Friendship’? Many who like ‘Fun’ like this.” World class clustering algorithms. World. Class.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/853443803http://blog.chris.to/post/853443803Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:14:58 -0700<p>Just squashed a really big spider. Convinced it was a bloodsucker. Brush with certain death. Tell your family you love them!</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/852785646http://blog.chris.to/post/852785646Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:44:34 -0700<p>Big fan of <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mensrights">http://reddit.com/r/mensrights</a> It can get a little nutty, but I appreciate it.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/851542223http://blog.chris.to/post/851542223Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:54:55 -0700<a href="http://rdoc.info/">rdoc.info</a>http://blog.chris.to/post/848290329http://blog.chris.to/post/848290329Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:20:44 -0700<p>California law lets you concatenate the last names of married couples in any way you please. How about “Chris Blewis” or “Chris Lewank”?</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/846998943http://blog.chris.to/post/846998943Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:13:00 -0700<p>Giving Top Gear another go after I abandoned it a year ago due to the horribly staged, unfunny, features. We’ll see how it goes.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/843589663http://blog.chris.to/post/843589663Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:22:11 -0700<p>I just performed Inception on you. You’re not even going to know which idea it is. But it’s mine. And I patented it. Pay up.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/843589727http://blog.chris.to/post/843589727Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:22:11 -0700<p>“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.” - <a href="http://nokogiri.org/">http://nokogiri.org/</a></p>http://blog.chris.to/post/837844124http://blog.chris.to/post/837844124Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:28:47 -0700<p>It’s disgustingly easy to get pirated copies of computer science books, you can pretty much type in “[book name] download” to Google.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/835738603http://blog.chris.to/post/835738603Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:16:57 -0700<p>Desperately in need of a milkshake from Marianne’s… but can my waistline take it?</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/831250211http://blog.chris.to/post/831250211Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:18:48 -0700<a href="http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/xmlbuilder-a-ruby-dsl-case-study">XMLBuilder: A Ruby DSL Case Study - Code Commit</a>http://blog.chris.to/post/830523554http://blog.chris.to/post/830523554Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:22:58 -0700<p>Inception was really rather good. Probably won’t “understand” it until a second viewing. Nolan is probably the only one who does.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/830111287http://blog.chris.to/post/830111287Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:24:47 -0700<p>Thankfully, matz is here to help in the foreword of Metaprogramming Ruby: “You can fall into the dark side of metaprogramming.”</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/830111270http://blog.chris.to/post/830111270Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:24:47 -0700<p>It’s 5:30PM on a Saturday in the summer. Why is no-one in the lab with me?</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/826090163http://blog.chris.to/post/826090163Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:18:22 -0700<p>Oh man, California Extreme was today? Rage!</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/825045168http://blog.chris.to/post/825045168Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:32:58 -0700<p>Dear authors: When writing a conclusion, don’t begin with “In conclusion…” I know it’s a conclusion. I just read the heading.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/823293605http://blog.chris.to/post/823293605Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:35:00 -0700<p>Been wearing my wedding band all day to make sure it’s the correct size. Very odd feeling.</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/822281801http://blog.chris.to/post/822281801Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:38:50 -0700<p>Found out that Ruby has no immutable instance variables, only immutable classes. Uncool!</p>http://blog.chris.to/post/821062587http://blog.chris.to/post/821062587Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:32:18 -0700