Great Ocean Road Tour

I’m back after a week off, during which I went for a road trip down the Great Ocean Road.Not much in the way of posting tonight since I’ve just processed 400-odd photos. I’ll point out some of my favourites along with some commentary shortly. Until then, here’s a link to… Read More

Duran Duration

I’m listening to a fair bit of Duran Duran lately.You know you’re getting old when most of the music you listen to was released over a decade ago. I don’t listen to the main popular radio station, though to be fair I never really did. I keep having these moments… Read More

Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult

The internet is a great source of information, weirdness and amusing wastes of time, like this website, but occasionally there’s something that seems to combine all three.So it is with the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult that is rapidly gaining membership throughout the world. An outgrowth of the ability to rapidly… Read More

Paintball and Pain

The following photo really speaks for itself. He looks a lot better at this point in the day than after he’d been pelted with high velocity paint. Craig, Mattley (pictured) and a whole bunch of the rest of us went up to Moama to play paintball/skirmish for Craig’s birthday. It… Read More

Best. Invite. Ever.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you have to check out this little video invitation currently doing the rounds.The general consensus seems to be that it’s a video invitation put together by some sort of industry creative type for a BBQ they’re having. It combines a montage of stills to… Read More

Google Is Smarter Than Me

After yesterday’s tirade about Plone, I bit the bullet and googled for how to create a custom skin in Plone. On the first page of results was a link to a helpful tutorial over at plone.org.Helpfully titled Creating a Custom Skin, it provides a link to a Product that gives… Read More

Wrestling with Plone

I’m currently wrestling with some Plone based coding for seafelt, the network management software Unicity is developing. It’s proving to be more of a challenge than I thought it would be.Plone is a great system for developing websites, like this one. It’s extremely useful out of the box and has… Read More

Deep House for Lost Souls

I’m currently listening to a very nice mix of deep house tunes by DJ fleep out of Tokyo. I highly recommend his site over at fleep.com. For those who don’t know, house music is one of the many varieties of what was once generically called techno, also known as doofdoof… Read More