My new favourite tool in the known internet is Inkscape, an Open Source vector graphics program, akin to Illustrator or Freehand. I ‘d used it briefly some time ago and didn’t really explore what it had to offer. “Vector graphics,” thought I, “Neat.” I’ve just had the opportunity to use… Read More
Our beloved gnome of a Prime Minister appears to be vote hunting in a peculiar way. For some stupid reason he’s channelling the US right wing and pushing for Cabinet to override the ACT’s decision to allow same-sex civil unions. Crikey rightly points out that this isn’t likely to work… Read More
I’ve just read an extremely disturbing article online from Rolling Stone Magazine, link via MetaFilter. Wow. Just… wow. What the fuck is wrong with you people? In this meticulously footnoted article, a vast litany of illegal behaviour is exposed. Widespread vote tampering, fraud, voter disenfranchisement; this is the sort of… Read More
I’ve put up the photos from Mattley’s birthday, and as an added bonus, we have video footage of Elisa singing Happy Birthday after inhaling a whole bunch of helium. Comedy Gold. Read More
I’ve resigned from my current gig and am looking forward to finishing up in another couple of weeks. It’s a fairly cushy gig, but I’ve finally had enough of all the things I don’t like about the place and have decided that I need to focus more on my own… Read More
Ever see one of those magician shows where the guy will memorise a whole bunch of random things and then recall them a while later in order, or reverse order, or do some other amazing memory demonstration? I attempted to learn some of the mnemonic tricks to it a while… Read More
I resigned from my job last Friday. I finish up in a month. I’ve got another gig to go to, but I’m only going to be working 4 days a week at it. I’ve taken a slight pay cut so I can pay myself one day a week to work… Read More
I’m really enjoying Bill Clinton’s autobiography My Life. As I mentioned in a previous post, I think he’s a really smart guy and the book is serving to reinforce this opinion. It’s quite long, mostly due to the extraordinary detail he goes into on virtually every topic. He writes well,… Read More
I just set up MythTV to stream video from the desktop to my laptop. I’ve had to muck about with the playback resolution because the poor little laptop just doesn’t have the hamsters to playback HDTV at full resolution. It’s also running over 100MiB wired ethernet, not GigE. It’s quite… Read More
Today is one month since I started the sleep experiment. I stopped writing about it for a couple of weeks mostly because I was busy with other things. I would say that the experiment is a success as I am now acclimatised to getting up at 7am when I don’t… Read More
