I became curious about the costs of the rides as I was deciding to enter the 1997 NSW Big Ride and I noticed that more and more of the items in the ride are now “optional,” eg insurance, souvenir t-shirt, transport both to the start and back from the finish.
Here are the prices that I paid for the rides over the years, usually comprising entry fee, transport between the ends of the ride and the nominal city of origin, insurance and t-shirt.
The Telstra BigPond package turned up at home this morning, it contains one “insert and run” Microsoft Windows CD and one PCMCIA wireless card as well as the ADSL modem and Ethernet cable.
I had carefully told the nice man with the almost unintelligible Indian accent that I needed the wireless card for a DESKTOP PC and that both PCs ran Linux and not Windows. So I’ve been given a CD I can’t run and a wireless card I can’t plug in!
Since fafnir took over from wyvern as my linux workstation, the wyvern hardware has been sitting idle. About time I start trying to install plan9 onto it then….
With the DVD drive as slave on IDE 0, the CD boots, but the installer won’t let me boot from anything other than fd0. Unplug and replug and a couple more attempts. Plan9 only recognises the CD if the drive is IDE 1 slave, but can’t see any of the hard disks.
My name is Mohammed a merchant in Dubai, have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.
Well, Mohammed, a merchant in Dubai, I can recommend grammar lessons. Defiling medical treatment is probably not what you intend.
Since changing my ordinary account from being Administrator equivalent to power-user, the Garmin Training Centre software won’t run. Logged in as Administrator and uninstalled it, then logged out and logged in as the ordinary account. Training Centre gets all the way through its install and only then tells you that it can’t run. Logged back in as Administrator and uninstalled, then reinstalled it. Logged out and back in as ordinary account and try to run it, still fails on every attempt, a dialog box states:
A slow start, and a cold morning. After breakfast it took forever to get coordinated and underway — last night’s red wine taking its toll. The coffee shops of Yarra Junction beckoned, we’d only just started riding by the time we got there and settled inside to thaw out and apply coffee to aching heads.
Leaving Yarra Junction the local traffic was a bit too obnoxious — as the drivers along here often seem to be.
From Neerim South to Noojee the road climbs steadily up for at least ten kilometres, then climbs more steeply up for another few before swooping down through the forest in wet twisty curves. Magnificent riding, but a little unnerving with the wet leaves and the narrowness of the roads. Inflight discussions between tandem pilot and stoker resulted in the decree that the tandem would travel at a reasonable speed downwards through the forest….
Blessed are the tandem-riders, for they shall manage to ride all day and escape the rain — at least it seemed that way today! A lucky start when we woke in sunlight and with a bit of prodding managed to leap into action and pack the bags and tent before breakfast and more importantly, before the next squall and rain-front came through. Even more impressive was the one after that, not just icy rain, this one had ice in it — a few minutes of hail that caused general mayhem on the campground.
Autumn colours at “Tall Timbers” open garden day A what! Yes, I spent half the morning at an open-garden out near Noojee. An obvious sign of senility, but a site for some very autumnal photographs. “Tall Timbers” had opened their garden to the public, and what a garden it was! I think its taken them about thirty years to get to the stage it is currently at, and probably takes up most of their time to keep it that way.
Something seems to have gone someway awry with the configuration of a supposed announce-only mailing list from Novell! Cutting out the names and headers, the following three messages came through in response to a routine announcement:
devnet-announce@forge.novell.com wrote: > I am out of office until the 10th of April. Your mails will not be > read or forwarded. Best regards: Rxxx Sxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> no problem. if you want, you can stay out of office till 11th or >> 12th.
There’s a cycling film festival on at RMIT for the next four days called Celluloid Cycles, we didn’t think we’d need to pre-purchase tickets to the first night’s session. We were wrong! After racing home from work, leaping on the train and getting into the city for 6.30 pm we found that it was completely sold out.
A beer for consolation at Transport while we plotted our next move…. Yeow! A $6 beer for consolation, that’ll probably be the first and last from there!
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.
