I’ve been thinking a lot about music lately. Playing music. How I used to, and haven’t lately. I’ve been particularly obsessed with Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) which is a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of music. And playing music is apparently good for your memory. So after… Read More
So here’s something that I really have to thank @Havi for catalysing. Her unique approach to what she calls ‘destuckification’ (which is an awesome word) really resonated with one particular thing I’d been struggling with. I suck. We all suck. At something. And that’s ok. Be OK with your suckitude… Read More
According to the news on Triple-J this morning, some churchy type over here has stopped their senior citizen’s Tai-Chi classes because “it’s a practice deriving from the Buddhist faith, and goes against Christianity” or some such. That’s some industrial grade stupid right there. Here is a brief list of other… Read More
Woo! New photos online. Various creatures, feathered and finned. And ducks. Lots of ducks. Click here to see them. Read More
This is super nifty. Apparently you insert dry spaghetti into cut up hot dogs, then boil them, and it turns out like the picture on the right. You could also use different coloured spaghetti, and combinations of types, for all kinds of freaky creations. I can see why kids would… Read More
You know those anthropomorphised little ATM characters they have on the latest ANZ ads? For those of you not in Australia (yes, I know, most of the world. You can’t all be awesome as us) here is a sample. I’ve found the ad company’s inspiration for this little guy. It’s… Read More
I’ve made some updates to SCM to assist with finding errors in the messages file. It’s easy to overlook them if you don’t have some sort of process for checking them, such as a central syslog server and some sort of syslog parsing program. Speaking of which, it would be… Read More
There was an image in the paper this weekend that was a parody of a well known painting. Actually, there were two: one was a parody of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, where they’d added a clown hat and clown makeup. I thought it fitting, since clowns are evil. I couldn’t… Read More
I’m doing a lot of travel at the moment, attending to clients interstate. This means I spend a lot of time in taxis and airport lounges. I don’t quite qualify for QantasClub yet (give it another couple of weeks), so I can’t just plug into free internet access of any… Read More
In Memoriam: Jarrod Klau. Today I went to the funeral of a friend. It feels wrong to call him a close friend for reasons I can’t articulate, mostly because other people knew him better than I. But I felt it was my duty to fly from Brisbane to Adelaide, instead… Read More
