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Thought for the day: If you ride a tandem bicycle with only one person on it you will be subject to endless strange looks and wise-cracking comments from passers-by about the empty seat. Meanwhile, you’ll be surrounded by cars all with four or more seats, mostly empty and containing just one driver….
In my daily bike commute along North road from Huntingdale Station to Monash University, I decided to keep a count of where the other cyclists I saw were riding:
Back in October I upgraded my Ubuntu system from 8.04 to 8.10 and as seems to happen far too often, once again something went wrong. This time it removed the nvidia support that has been running for years and all of a sudden I can only run X at a resolution of 1152x864 instead of 1280x1024.
Cartoon drawings depicting the Simpsons naked, the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album, Angus Young of AC/DC or Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls sexualising themselves in school uniforms. All classified as child porn by your new all-seeing all-knowing Australian government. Some are likely to be filtered by the new mandatory internet filter for Australia, but you won’t know which, the list of what is to be censored is itself not available to the public.
Instructions: type the letter “a” in your browser location bar and choose the first match from the dropdown. Repeat for each letter of the alphabet.
Reading Tim Bray’s comments on disk throughput on http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/20/2008-Disk-Performance sparked my curiousity, so I installed a copy of bonnie++ …
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.