I was up bright and early at 6am, which is still officially dark o’clock here on the eastern seaboard of .au courtesy of the Commonwealth Games. I managed the normal morning routine, did the dishes and cleaned the shower and was all ready to head for work by 7:10am. I… Read More
I’ve started a bit of a sleep experiment, inspired by this story from BoingBoing. I’ve been getting up relatively early since going on the GVBR, but I’ve been having issues with staying motivated to do things of an afternoon and evening after a day at work. I think part of… Read More
Auds and I rode 96 kms this morning. We couldn’t decide if we wanted to do hills or flats, so I made an executive decision and voted for flats. Most of it was flat, except for a few hills through Mornington. The weather was basically perfect: cool, but not cold,… Read More
I’ve been having a second go at installing Quickbooks today. I attempted it last weekend but it failed to install correctly. It appears the key I used for the upgrade from Quickbooks 2002 to 2004 doesn’t actually work. It installed fine, but wouldn’t run. I’ve since verified the correct key… Read More
I’ve been playing around with graphic design lately and the time has come to give eigenmagic.com a facelift. The current layout, styles, fontsets… well they suck. I’ve been redesigning the company website to make it look a bit more web2.0 (the current buzzword) and last night I realised that this… Read More
A lot of stuff going on lately, hence the lack of updates. I completed the Holden High Country Cycle Challenge: 200+ kms over two days, including a climb up Mount Bulla, about 1200 vertical meters in 2.5 hours. Hard work, but fun. I’ve been doing a lot of work on… Read More
I’ve recently embarked on a major rebuild of my desktop system from a Debian sid based testing/unstable distro for amd64 to an Ubuntu Breezy Badger install for amd64. The Ubuntu bit was relatively painless, and happily VMWare Workstation 5.5 now supports amd64, so it works nicely. Unfortunately, MythTV isn’t packaged… Read More
I’m incredibly slack, but I’ve finally managed to comment and upload photos from the Open Source Developer’s Conference from last year. I didn’t take many, but I did capture the famous OSI Layer Cake that Anthony built. This photo is just screaming out to have the actual OSI layer names… Read More
I picked up my lovely new Bianchi on Friday night. She is every bit as lovely as I’d hoped. She was a bit mistreated getting her home, as the weather had broken and a large quantity of water decended from the sky, making the roads just that much more interesting… Read More
I had to fix the rear hub on Emma, the MTB. I’d previously taken it apart while replacing a spoke and didn’t put it back together properly, it would appear. Apparently you’re not supposed to tighten the ‘cones’ quite as much as I did. This explains why the hub didn’t… Read More
