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Fast Fiction?

Fast Fiction?

Friday, Aug 26, 2005

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RRR is nearly at the end of their annual radiothon, three days left to go and I’ve been meaning to get around to resubscribing, but was leaving it until the weekend…. This morning the Breakfasters had a guest from the long past — James Young — half of the old Fast Fictions team. I couldn’t resist, I had to give it a try. Rang up, resubscribed, made a donation, then offered to double the donation if Hound Dog can find me a replacement Fast Fictions CD to replace the one that I took to South Africa and left there sometime back in 2001!
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Weather station

Weather station

Wednesday, Aug 24, 2005

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Moved the weather station from wyvern to fafnir.

At first attempt, oww won’t compile, so I’m using the binary from the old system.

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Lunchtime meanderings

Lunchtime meanderings

Monday, Aug 22, 2005

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Too many times I spend my lunch break sitting at my desk, especially in the winter. A few weeks ago I decided to get out and go for a walk more often, today I headed off east through a nearby part of Clayton — I ride through here every evening, but in the nine years I’ve worked here, I don’t think I’ve once walked down some of the streets!
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Inaugural ride

Inaugural ride

Sunday, Aug 21, 2005

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With much fanfare Jo declared it is time. Time to take her new bicycle out for a ride — one week old and it hasn’t been ridden yet! The weather doesn’t look promising and we decide we’re both getting old and lazy — its far too easy to just sit at home and wait for a perfect day… Off down Warrigal road, a brief stop in a car-park to adjust the seat, then head for the bay along North road.
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To see the world in a piece of toast...

To see the world in a piece of toast...

Sunday, Aug 21, 2005

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The Saturday morning ritual. Jo heads across to the bakery to grab a fresh loaf of bread while I make bacon and eggs and coffee. We prefer the loaves from the Vietnamese-run bakery in Chester street, but they’re often not ready until 9:30, so the earlier mornings’ bread comes from the market bakery. A split-Vienna loaf, often still warm from the oven. At least half the loaf vanishes with breakfast and lunch on Saturday, Sunday morning is usually toast made from the rest…
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Welsh Daleks?

Welsh Daleks?

Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005

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Anyone care to confirm the following bizarre question and answer that appeared in a discussion on Daleks? Q: Whats the Welsh for EXTERMINATE? A: since you asked, it's DIFODIWCH
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Nearly Springtime

Nearly Springtime

Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005

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Dentist appointment at 9 o’clock this morning, just up the road from where — err, from where I lived until last October. Forty-five minute bike ride from home to Richmond now, so I had to get up early — or what passes for early for me! I could have got it down to thirty-five minutes by taking the car and being stuck in the crawling hordes on the freeway, by bike in the sunshine was far more appealing.
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The Dutch Masters

The Dutch Masters

Sunday, Aug 14, 2005

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I really ought to write something here, it was a very busy day! Food, friends, freezing wind, three hours walking around the NGV. Exhausting! Dutch Masters from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. an impressive collection of paintings, and a few miscellaneous pieces of silverware and pottery. One of the glasses had me thinking, the sign on it said it was one of under five left in the world… I could swear I’d seen another!
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Camera fun

Camera fun

Thursday, Aug 11, 2005

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One big win this evening — I discovered that my X-Drive external hard-disk/memory-card-reader thing can handle the SD cards from the IXUS700. I was worried that it could only handle the cards from the other camera. I then ran around the freezing cold house cooking dinner, reading the newspaper, trying to light the fire, listening to early ’80s punk on RRR and taking photos of things all at the same time!
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People in cars

People in cars

Thursday, Aug 11, 2005

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Bah! One of my colleagues from work spent the night in hospital and will spend the rest of the week off work. Motorist “failed to give way” and ran into him. I’ve seen him riding — lit up like a christmas tree, lights, reflectors, shiny vest, and always on the lookout for the idiot in the tin box. It only takes one lapse in concentration and the idiot will get you…
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The Icy Claw!

The Icy Claw!

Thursday, Aug 11, 2005

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Four degrees overnight and we’ve learnt that the walls of the old weatherboard house here in Oakleigh has a lot less insulation than the bricks and concrete of Richmond! The only heating in the house is the wood fire, light it at 6.30 pm and by 10.00 pm the place is just starting to feel warm — just in time to go to bed. Bund is back, amusingly, a heat-related problem.
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Outage

Outage

Tuesday, Aug 9, 2005

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Uh oh… I’m off the air. So of course, nobody can read this. Something bad has happened and my friends at http://bund.com.au/ have been down since Sunday. Best wishes in exorcising the devils within the machinery guys…
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Liberty, Fraternity, Photography….

Liberty, Fraternity, Photography….

Friday, Aug 5, 2005

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The civil liberties of some Australians will have to be curtailed in the fight against terrorism, Treasurer Peter Costello says. Thanks Mr Costello. More and more it seems that the terrorists win. Security becomes the justification for anything and everything. Our Man of Steel, the Honourable John W. Howard wants thousands more cameras to monitor us every step of the way, meanwhile it seems that carrying a camera is now a suspicious activity.
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Rain, Sun, Wind, Melbourne!

Rain, Sun, Wind, Melbourne!

Wednesday, Aug 3, 2005

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Just about to leave this morning to ride to work when the rain started hammering down on the tin roof, definitely time to sit for a quarter of an hour and tidy the kitchen! Oddest motorist this morning — the lady stopped at the lights on North road. She drove up, stopped, her hands and eyes dropped into her lap and she started fiddling about. “Another idiot on the phone,” I thought.
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Coincidence?

Coincidence?

Tuesday, Aug 2, 2005

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This morning I’m on my way to work when I meet, SKM-###, the garbage truck driven by idiots. First they’re stopped at the corner hanging out the window and yelling sexist abuse at a female pedestrian, then they came up behind me on North road, pulled into the bike lane as they passed, then just ahead of me kept on coming left until the truck almost met the railing, pulling back out the two passengers were leaning out the window looking back at me and laughing.
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Bike exploration

Bike exploration

Sunday, Jul 31, 2005

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stats. Distance 68.53km Average speed 18.93km/hr Riding time 3:37:14 Odometer 19884km The weather is starting to resemble spring time, the excuses for being lazy and not going out on the bike are getting harder to come by — even with the inflammatory anti-cycling attitudes being drummed up in the media — so Jo and I took off for a ride this morning. Just the normal ride, along North road to the beach, turn left and head down to Mordialloc.
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Parking...

Parking...

Friday, Jul 29, 2005

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Every day our little street fills up with people parking their cars while they work in the offices or the singing school across the road — no problem, except for whoever drives this car that parks closer and closer to our driveway. He seems to have assumed that because we don’t often drive it during he day, that we’ll never drive it during the day and so he happily parks blocking our exit.
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Its da Law!

Its da Law!

Wednesday, Jul 27, 2005

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Aha! Finally found the bit of Victoria’s Road Rules that I’ve been after for months. Paragraph 2, Rule 134, Part 11: 134. Exceptions to keeping to the left of a dividing line (2) If the dividing line is a single broken or a continuous line, or a broken divided line to the left of a single continuous dividing line, the driver may drive to the right of the dividing line to overtake another driver.
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Nice weather for ducks

Nice weather for ducks

Sunday, Jul 24, 2005

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Another one of those wet Melbourne weekends! During the afternoon Jo and I headed over to the other side of Oakleigh for a walk through the wetlands — what used to be an uninspiring patch of flood-prone vacant land with a concrete storm-water drain through the middle, has been landscaped and replanted as a native wet-lands. Apart from the massive quantities of cans and plastic rubbish washed into the creek, it all looks quite attractive and is obviously very popular with the local bird life.
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I am not an ashtray!

I am not an ashtray!

Friday, Jul 22, 2005

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Its been a while since I’ve met quite such an aggressive motorist, one who’s prepared not only to scream abuse but to try and hit me with their car — unfortunately tonight was such a night. I pulled up at the lights to turn right from Clayton road into North road, drawing alongside a dark blue/green Ford station wagon stopped in the through lane. As I got level with the driver’s window she flicked half a cigarette’s worth of glowing ash straight out, half in my face, half down my leg.
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You fat bastard!

You fat bastard!

Thursday, Jul 21, 2005

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The days are getting longer, the sky is sometimes still light when I ride home in the evenings, warm and sunny at lunch time I escaped from the windowless brick box and went for a walk. Around the shiny new multistory concrete car-park and over to the lake. As soon as I sat down the pigeons started waddling over to beg for food.
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Winter food

Winter food

Sunday, Jul 17, 2005

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It seemed to be a day ideally suited to sitting inside and eating. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, chocolate biscuits, walnuts, apple strudel…. Cold and windy outside, swirls of rain and the threat of hail. Warm and tasty scrambled eggs for breakfast, accompanied by the second half of our weekend tasty fresh loaf from one of the Oakleigh bakeries. A brisk walk in the wind took us over to Hughesdale, or maybe Murrumbeena, I’m not sure exactly where one suburb ends and the other begins.
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Gibberish

Gibberish

Saturday, Jul 16, 2005

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“Going Forward on a Day By Day Basis” — Ugh! Congratulations NASA, that would have to be the bureaucratic double-speak quote of the day! No wonder the space shuttle has problems when the people in charge choose to speak such gibberish.
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End of an Institution

End of an Institution

Saturday, Jul 16, 2005

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Gaslight music has closed for the last time! Heard it on the radio and read it in the news — it must be true. Seems to be ages since I last visited, its been years since I spent a lot of time and money buying CDs, and I never spent much time in the CBD anyway. Good memories of the shop and the people though, there always seemed to be something of interest when I did get in there…
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Roundabouts, Motorists

Roundabouts, Motorists

Monday, Jul 11, 2005

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Where’s the BikeCam™ when you need it? Not once, but twice this evening on the way home I came within inches of being flattened by morons who decided not to bother giving way to traffic on the roundabouts. First one was just out of Monash on Woodside avenue, moron in a red station-wagon, Subaru I think, rego. ###-###, flying up Koonawarra street, doesn’t bother to slow, straight out in front as I’m halfway around.
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Time for a hill climb

Time for a hill climb

Sunday, Jul 10, 2005

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stats. Riding time 3:25:37 Maximum speed 65km/hr Odometer 19810km Distance 79.05km Too many months of being lazy and only riding to and from work. No more excuses, time to go out today and ride up a mountain — a little mountain at least! After yesterday’s miserable weather today was fine and sunny so I took the opportunity while Jo was out for the afternoon and headed off eastwards to Ferntree Gully and up and over Mount Dandenong.
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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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