My friend and colleague, Jim, invited a few of us out last night for a spot of night time mountain biking. Let me say that again: mountain biking, on dirt tracks, in the dark. :) It was every bit as insane as it sounds. It’s pitch black beyond the reach… Read More
I just upgraded up laptop to linux 2.6.8 and was surprised at how painless it was. Debian makes life pretty simple with the ease of apt-get install. I had to add a few extra packages to get make gconfig work, since I use Gnome and didn’t want to wrestle my… Read More
My mate Mattley had his 30th birthday party last weekend. I’ve added my photos from the night to the photos section here. It was a really fun party, and Tricia, Matt’s girlfriend, made the best cake ever from a whole bunch of Yowies that she stuck together. Everyone had fun… Read More
It seems a couple of older HAM radio aficionados used Morse Code to send messages faster than a couple of young SMS freaks. Given that Morse Code and the devices used to encode it have been around for a long time and have been refined extensively, I’m not overly surprised.… Read More
eigenmagic has finally been moved to its new home. Issues with the DSL relocation, that I will talk about later, prevented me from providing advance warning of the move, but happily everything is now back online. eigenmagic is now located in my very own piece of real estate. I actually… Read More
I just realised today that the reason I hadn’t been seeing any updates of Mac Hall Comics was because I’d bookmarked the page with a parameter that pointed to a specific comic. So instead of the constantly updating main page, I kept seeing the same comic whenever I’d click on… Read More
It’s not every day you see a sentence ending with “…and things went a little batshit” outside of a Hunter S. Thompson novel, but so it is with a funky little group called Improv Everywhere. They appear to be a sort of Merry Pranksters/flashmob/improvisational art project collective that grew from… Read More
It’s been the usual work, rest, play cycle for the past week, pretty much. I saw Diana Krall at the Palais last night. I have to say, the recorded stuff I’d heard until then really didn’t do her justice. The concert was awesome. I can’t believe I didn’t know about… Read More
A bit of random silliness for a Friday: The Unitarian Jihad Name Generator. Also see this article in the San Francisco Chronicle for a bit of background on the Unitarian Jihad: Link Read More
I’ve added the photos from my cycle tour on the Wagaratta to Bright rail trail in Easter 2005. Read More
