I’m currently sitting at my parent’s house in NSW, connecting over their wifi to home. It’s pretty sweet that my standard setup worked with only a few configuration tweaks to support the WEP keys they’re using. Wifi laptops rock! Christmas is shaping up to be a fun time up here,… Read More
My life currently rocks. I must have been a very good boy this year because Santa appears to have dropped off my presents a bit early. I hope I don’t jinx it by having a wee bit of a gloat here. Without going into too much detail in order to… Read More
Photos from the Great Victorian Bike Ride are finally online! I took lots, so it’s taken me a while to go through them all and take out the really bad ones. I’m very happy with a a few of them, but they’re mostly just shots of the thousanfs of people… Read More
Grr. I’ve managed to get my DSL service working properly again, but it wasn’t without its hassles. My DSL provider, Aspark, apparently decided to turn on filtering of inbound connections while I was away on holidays. All inbound packets to ports < 1024 were being silently dropped upstream, effectively rendering… Read More
I just returned from nine days of cycle touring on the Great Victorian Bike Ride. 600+ kilometres of sun, rain, wind, cycling and fun in just over a week. I’ll post a proper entry in the next day or so as I’m still processing the photos, doing washing, cleaning tents… Read More
Yet another example of why the internet is better than TV. Check out this video . It’s a few highschool kids from the US playing a medly of the songs from Super Mario Bros. on a Marimba and drums. As a recovering percussionist, it’s awesome to see something that would… Read More
Just a quick post to let you know that new photos of Georgie’s housewarming party are up. Don’t worry folks, I’ve kept all the really embarassing ones off the website. ;) Check them out here. Read More
I nearly cracked the sads and left work mid-afternoon today. I was doing my usual ‘extremely polite email responses to complete idiocy’ trick, where the more annoyed I am, the more polite and urbane the language I use in email. I get quite formal, in fact. I have single-handedly made… Read More
I’ve uploaded the photos from Tim and Bevan’s weddings at long last. Some ok shots, some not so ok, but overall not too bad for someone who needs a lot more practice. In processing them, I’ve started using a new program called Digikam, which is for KDE under linux. I… Read More
Today is Rememberance Day. I know a few people who’ve served in Vietnam, Korea and similar places. My grandfather worked in the Airforce as a mechanic during WWII. I have heard many a tale of bravery, camaraderie and shenanigans when on leave. The stories I’ve been told have almost exclusively… Read More
