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Edgeless

Edgeless

Monday, Apr 19, 2010

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Another wonderful example of built-in obsolescence. My current GPS, a Garmin Edge 705 bought in January 2009 stopped working last Friday. As with most consumer electronics, it came with a 12 month warranty. As with a suspiciously large number of consumer electronics, it failed shortly after the warranty had expired. Product name: Edge® 705 Registration date: Jan 20, 2009 Serial number: ######### Unit Id: ########## The power switch had been getting more and more indeterminate over the last few months — but never enough to make me realise and send it off to Garmin for repair while it still had a warranty.
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Today

Today

Wednesday, Apr 7, 2010

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Today I… got my camera back from Canon after only three weeks. saw a Monash City Council contractor cleaning garbage from beside the bike track in Oakleigh for the first time in five years of riding along here. converted my /home partition from ext3 to btrfs on my work PC. discovered that Ubuntu 10.04alpha-whatever locks up at disk mounting time and won’t boot with the 2.6.32-19-generic kernel on my work PC (and only boots some of the time under 2.
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QOTD

QOTD

Thursday, Apr 1, 2010

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Bike Lane, noun. An optional strip of poorly maintained tarmac between the highway and the verge suitable for: 1. the storage of debris (especially sand, broken glass and organic matter) 2. overflow parking 3. testing of pothole designs 4. experimentation with unusually rough road surfaces. Definition (C) Copyright VicRoads 1989 - 2010.
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Ride report for March 2010

Ride report for March 2010

Thursday, Apr 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March: March 2010 Count 26 Activities Distance 361.81 km Time 20:10:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,211 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 138 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 12,593 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 82 Activities Distance 986.59 km Time 54:33:42 h:m:s Elevation Gain 9,477 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 145 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 35,524 C
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Windows XP offline files weirdness

Windows XP offline files weirdness

Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010

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I’m pretty fond of the offline files and folders feature in Windows, can’t say I’m terribly impressed how Microsoft makes such a feature only available in “Professional” versions, when such a huge proportion of home machines are laptops where people have a NAS or external drive that ideally they should be using to hold their precious files. Both at home and at work I’ve configured SAMBA on a Linux desktop machine to export my home directory; at home our Windows 7 laptop has Pictures and Documents libraries on the server in $HOME/Pictures and $HOME/Documents, at work the clapped out Windows XP laptop does the same to the Linux box there.
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Fish in a barrel

Fish in a barrel

Monday, Mar 29, 2010

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OK, OK, so picking on the little paper is like shooting fish in a barrel… but surely sometime, somewhere, somehow, they could employ a high-school graduate or even a monkey from the zoo to proof-read these stories before they publish them: …It lasted another 5km until the alleged driver and her teenage passengers finally abandoned the car when the tyre came completely away from the rim and made a run for it.
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Canon E18 error strikes again

Canon E18 error strikes again

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010

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Went to turn on the IXUS 700 this evening to take a picture of Cam running around building towers in the kitchen and there was that horrible grinding noise from the plastic gears in the lens, three or four high pitched beeps and the dreaded message on the screen “E18”. Bugger. That’d be the error that seems to plague the IXUS cameras. The error that Canon refuses to acknowledge. The error the Australian staff “had never heard of.
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Emacs Org mode on top of Jekyll?

Emacs Org mode on top of Jekyll?

Monday, Mar 15, 2010

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One better than just using Jekyll, today I found a document on Using org to Blog with Jekyll, unfortunately it has a few typos which made getting up to speed with it a pain for me (small amount of knowledge of Jekyll, infinitely small amount of knowledge of Org mode). The main problems seem to be: writing #_BEGIN_HTML instead of #+BEGIN_HTML not writing #+END_HTML at all Then I was hit by having an out-of-date copy of Org mode — and consequently it was ignoring the body-only publishing directive in my $HOME/.
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Jekyll

Jekyll

Friday, Mar 12, 2010

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I’ve lost track of the number of publishing systems that I’ve tried over the years; from hand-crafted — or is that crufted — HTML and PHP to various XML and docbook derivatives, silkpage, and currently an untidy mix of muse and pyblosxom. Today I stumbled on Jekyll and managed to quickly get it to do most of what I want — then with the addition of Raoul Felix’s Jekyll Extensions most of the rest of what was missing.
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Evolution in action

Evolution in action

Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010

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What happens when you combine stupid people with cars? Here’s a local genius who may have spent too much time watching Hollywood movies and lost track of reality just a wee touch. Courtesy of my favourite fish-wrapper, the Herald Sun: Man in hospital with head injuries after jumping from car at 90km/h A 21-YEAR-OLD man who jumped out of a moving car while he was driving it at nearly 90km/h is in hospital with serious head injuries.
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OPML and location

OPML and location

Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010

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In the usual roundabout fashion; from reading my RSS feeds through to a Norman Walsh post to a page by Tom Morris to a mention of OPML and then of FireEagle. All stuff I’m interested in, but all by people who are much better at using it, writing about it and hacking it, than I am. ~/pkg/OPML: OPML editor, Windows version that puts an ugly ^M at the end of every line.
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Storm, no damage

Storm, no damage

Monday, Mar 8, 2010

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After being away from Melbourne for three days we were more than a little apprehensive at what we’d find after the thunderstorms, the TV footage of metre deep floods in the CBD and hailstones the size of1 golf-balls, tennis balls, lemons, etc all looked pretty frightening. How, exactly, would the wobbly old house hold up? According to the newspaper this morning, the centre of the swath of destruction had passed less than a suburb to the north, so it wasn’t too promising.
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Once, an accident; twice, a coincidence

Once, an accident; twice, a coincidence

Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010

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Trundling home on the mountain bike towing the trailer and toddler, today I decided to go the slightly longer way via Huntingdale station and the full length of the bottle-strewn bike path to Oakleigh. Making my way carefully through the Huntingdale station car-park in case of idiots I had to suddenly slam on the brakes and stop to avoid an idiot reversing at speed out of a parking space without looking.
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Ride report for February 2010

Ride report for February 2010

Monday, Mar 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February: February 2010 Count 36 Activities Distance 364.36 km Time 20:53:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,442 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,567 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 56 Activities Distance 624.78 km Time 34:23:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,266 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 22,931 C
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Customer Services

Customer Services

Friday, Feb 26, 2010

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Its a Friday, crap customer service from not one, but two different companies. Ascension Records 1, Australia Post nil Three weeks ago I bought a CD boxed set from Ascension Records, two days later the purchase appeared on my credit card and I thought no more about it. Yesterday my VISA bill arrived and I thought the CD was taking a bit long so I called them up, yep, ordered on the 2nd, shipped on the 8th.
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More Melbourne Motorists

More Melbourne Motorists

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

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Riding home today I think it must be the day of the d@ckhead and that I missed the announcement. Heading towards Clayton road in the Dandenong road service lane a courier car comes out of Clayton primary and goes screaming past me and the trailer the wrong way up the service lane heading for the McDonalds or to a shortcut across Dandenong road to head east. Passing the Oakleigh motel there’s a large tattooed arm hanging out the window of a parked crappy commodore and a hand holding a cigarette… or so I thought.
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O-week… They're back!

O-week… They're back!

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010

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For three months of the year, from the end of November to the end of February, the roads around the university are moderately safe. For three months there’s the same number of nuff-nuffs and idiots as pretty much every other part of Melbourne. Then at the end of February the students return — people in their late teens and early twenties are not renown for paying much attention to the road laws — and a whole lot of them are from overseas as well, so they have little to no idea of what the road laws are in the first place!
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Doin' the broadband shuffle

Doin' the broadband shuffle

Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010

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The gravy train has pulled in to the station, employer funded broadband will end, financial tightness has them by the goolies. Everyone was very polite about it, but still I was given two and a bit months to find a new ISP. The good news is that it gives me an incentive to finally be rid of BigPond, Australia’s least favourite ISP — or maybe its just the devil you know, you only ever hear bad things about the one you’re with.
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The Mill road open air garbage dump

The Mill road open air garbage dump

Saturday, Feb 6, 2010

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Its a toss-up really, of the businesses in Haughton road who back onto our street — Mill road — who dumps the most crap in the street? They all seem to consider the public street to be their private property. According to the council, residents have to keep their bins off the street but apparently the businesses on the other side of the road are above all that, they can just dump crap where ever they want with impunity and leave their bins out blocking the footpath all year long.
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Tyneham, Dorset revisited

Tyneham, Dorset revisited

Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010

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Back in June 2001 I cycled through an odd part of Dorset in England, the deserted fields and villages of the army range between East Lulworth and Swanage. Very peaceful and post-appocalyptic and a place I’d love to revisit with a camera to take more photos! Since then I’ve read more about the area and wish I’d taken the time to detour to Tyneham. Why the post? Well this evening an article in the news caught my eye and had me looking back through my journal and the scruffy old A-Z map of the UK that I used when touring.
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Ride report for January 2010

Ride report for January 2010

Monday, Feb 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January: January 2010 Count 20 Activities Distance 260.43 km Time 13:29:56 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,825 m Avg Speed 19.3 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,365 C
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A real life scam!

A real life scam!

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

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Only a week or so since we were at Lorne where I’d read in one of the newspapers an article about the millions and millions of dollars that Australians lose each year to various scams, then today at mum & dad’s house we got to experience one first hand! Not just that, but it was almost word-for-word as laid out in the newspaper. Supposed tradesmen offering goods and services “on the cheap,” as two blokes turn up in a ute with a barrel of tar in the back and a couple of magnetic signs over the doors to hide the rental company name and say “we’ve been doing some work ‘up on the highway’ and the boss has asked us to get rid of the left over tar, we can resurface your driveway for a good price if you like…“
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First ride of the decade

First ride of the decade

Friday, Jan 1, 2010

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After failing to go for my ceremonial last ride of the year yesterday — something I’ve managed to do when I can on December 31 each year — I took myself out on the bike today. First bike ride of the year; an easy 38km ride from Lorne out along the Great Ocean Road to Wye river, on for a couple more headlands, stop and look at the ocean for a while, then turn around and make my way home.
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Last day of work for 2009

Last day of work for 2009

Friday, Dec 18, 2009

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An interesting year at work; I can hardly remember any of January to May — the normal, five day a week part of the year. Instead its been Monday to Wednesday at home looking after Cam, then Thursday and Friday in the office. Wednesday was my nominal “work-at-home” day to bring my hours up to three days a week, but in reality it was two whole days on site and the remaining seven and half hours of work spread out between Friday evening and Thursday morning, as and when a small boy and life allowed.
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About

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…The Owner

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.

…The Site

Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…

I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

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