I'm currently studying at WaikatoUniversity - I did my undergrad at CanterburyUniversity.
My research while I'm here is on Optical Music Recognition -- how to convert a scanned image of music into machine-readable music formats, a bit like Optical Character Recognition. More info is on-line at http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/jrm21
Linux-related stuff: I prefer gnome, although I think both gnome and kde try to mimic other operating systems too much. I dislike vi and emacs about equally, although I'll never forgive vi for not telling a newbie how to quit if it's invoked accidently (eg press "v" while in "less").
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