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Recovery from Ubuntu

Recovery from Ubuntu

Wednesday, Jun 1, 2005

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Nearly fully recovered from the failed experiment into Ubuntu, Debian has finally finished downloading all the packages that it wants to turn the machine back into a Debian “testing” box, and by choosing their 2.6.8-2-686-smp kernel, I’ve got my network card back.

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Hi there Ebay.DE!

Hi there Ebay.DE!

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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I guess this is how all the non-English-speaking inhabitants of the planet feel when inundated with English language emails and surveys. Last week I bid on a very dodgy looking item that appeared in ebay, the next day it had vanished. The next day an identical dodgy-looking item reappeared, but from a different seller. I bid on it… Yesterday I received a great long email from http://ebay.de/, I have no idea why, either they guessed from my surname that I’m German (which I’m not) or they saw Australia and mis-read it as Austria, or some other reason.
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He keeps on Rollin' around

He keeps on Rollin' around

Friday, May 27, 2005

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Two years rolls around, Henry Rollins rolls in with it! Two and a half hours of full-on intense monologue, no half-measures, no let-up. I’m convinced the guy will explode one day. 21st April 2001, 7th May 2003, then the 27th of May 2005. I guess he’ll be back sometime mid 2007… Rugby, Chapelle Corby, Kylie’s tit, the Trans-Siberian express, inane modern communication via smilies, texting and email, George W. Bush and the Christian Taliban of America, the oration doesn’t ramble, its more like a bulldozer on amphetamines.
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Another round of the customer circus

Another round of the customer circus

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

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I’m not sure how I’ll survive but I’m now camera-less for four to five weeks, maybe less if Canon can fix my camera sooner. This morning I made my way up and down the hills of Blackburn road into the wilds of Burwood and visited the Canon service centre — expecting a short visit and maybe even for it to be fixed on the spot. Merely filling out the online form to book it in for a repair took at least half an hour, then only after I parted company with it did they tell me that they typically quote four to five weeks, because all parts have to be ordered in from overseas!
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Orstraya Post

Orstraya Post

Monday, May 23, 2005

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Found out why Australia Post never called me back from when I last contacted them about parcels being dumped in the garden back in April. Seems that they verbally assured me that they would call me back, but noted down in the job entry that “the customer requires no response.” After Friday’s parcel in the garden, I put in a second query. I’ve been again verbally assured that someone will contact me after the delivery contractor has been contacted.
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Customer Service, Customer Circus

Customer Service, Customer Circus

Friday, May 20, 2005

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Ground Effect, 1; Australia Post, nil. Following up on my missing parcel from Monday, Ground Effect sent me a replacement, after asking for a different address. With some trepidation I gave them the home address, since every parcel that we’ve had delivered here since last October has been left lying on either the footpath or the front doorstep, not once, but every single time! Sure enough, I got home this evening and there it was, sitting on the footpath just inside the front fence!
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Cycle Commute: Oakleigh to Clayton

Cycle Commute: Oakleigh to Clayton

Thursday, May 19, 2005

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Possibly the world’s shortest bicycle commute. Looking back at the orange tree Oakleigh to Monash University, and home again. Here are some of the hi-lights and low-lights of my daily ride to and from work. The trip only takes about twelve minutes, nowhere near as interesting as my previous trip to Monash from Richmond! A quick count and I’ve calculated that I ride along five roads getting there and an extra two coming home.
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Oakleigh to Clayton

Oakleigh to Clayton

Thursday, May 19, 2005

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’twas a beautiful sunny morning as I was heading off to work, so I decided to take some photos along the way. Not as interesting as my previous commute from Richmond, but it has its advantages — the shortness being the main one!
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Mail Order hassles

Mail Order hassles

Monday, May 16, 2005

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Ground Effect make some nice bike gear, I’ve never had a problem with them before, but I was extremely nervous the first time I ordered anything from overseas. Never had a problem with the items being delivered, but two weeks ago I lodged an order, they claim it was shipped on the 2nd, but the parcel has vanished. Damn! $90 out of pocket unless someone can find the item. Of course they only ship it normal mail, so there’s no receipts or consignment numbers.
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Mind the doors!

Mind the doors!

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

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Motorists do the darnedest things. Today’s idiot du jour was the passenger in the silver Barina, P-plates, Victorian registration ###-###. There it was stopped at the traffic lights about five cars from the front, he decided to throw the passenger door fully open in order to spit on the ground as I was riding up on the left. Somehow I managed to just stop before ramming his head into the open car door.
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Uh oh...

Uh oh...

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

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What happens when someone buys the cheapest possible bicycle on the market? Well, it comes from a large department store, it comes in a cardboard box, it comes with either poor or no instructions, and it needs to be assembled. Can we blame the owner of the Huffy I saw this morning who had built the bike with the front forks on backwards? One of the overseas students turned up riding it at the cyclist breakfast, two of us tried to fix it, but everything is rusted solid and the forks cannot be moved.
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Kodak

Kodak

Monday, May 9, 2005

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Hmm, an easy to use camera. An EASYSHARE ™ camera. A camera purchased partly on the premise that it can be plugged straight into its printer and needs no computer. The new owner opens the box, there is no manual, three CDs and a single sheet of paper fall out. The manual is on a CD in an Adobe PDF file, the sheet of paper states in big letters that he must install the software before using the camera.
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What is it?

What is it?

Monday, May 9, 2005

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The latest acquisition sits gleaming in the sun as I’m about to make my way to work. Dating back to pre-Japanese bicycles, its got “Australian Made” 28¼” Dunlop tyres, no brand name, and an English back-pedal brake. Why on earth did I collect it from the hard rubbish yesterday when we were out walking around the suburb?…
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Wheels of Justice

Wheels of Justice

Saturday, May 7, 2005

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Out the door a bit after eight thirty, a quick ride into the city, arrived in plenty of time to join the rally. I guessed somewhere between 100-200 cyclists turned up to support the Wheels of Justice rally in Adelaide, complaining about the total inadequacy of a $3,100 sentence for a driver who killed a cyclist in a hit and run collision.
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Blind justice

Blind justice

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

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Two court results of the week: WA: man vandalises a speed camera — $109000 fine SA: man kills cyclist in hit and run — $3100 fine Sheesh! Talk about priorities. At least the South Australian government has just announced a Royal Commission will be enquiring into the handling of the hit and run. There’s a rally being held to protest against a recent decision in an Adelaide court, which saw lawyer Eugene McGee handed down a $3100 fine and 12 months loss of licence for hitting and killing cyclist Ian Humphreys whilst drink driving in his four wheel drive.
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Mapping

Mapping

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

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Good news for the day, GPS tags in EXIF headers of images, flickr tags and googlemaps appear to be all coming together. Geobloggers can display images on maps based on either the tags added to a Flickr image, or (supposedly) pulled straight out of the EXIF headers. I say supposedly, because after tagging five images manually I can find them all1, but attempting to use the EXIF data failed2. As a further test 3, I dredged up and tagged an old photo from August 2003 that I’d taken in the UK, since googlemaps can only display maps of the USA and UK.
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T-shirt preservation project

T-shirt preservation project

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

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T-shirt preservation project: Red Hot Chilli Peppers OK, time for stage one. What do you do with all your favourite old t-shirts? Are they destined to be completely ephemeral, worn for a few years while fashionable (or unfashionable), then to be lobbed into the void or the rag-bag for all eternity? Or do we seek to preserve them in some unnatural way, a practical garment rendered impractical by being treated as something more than mere clothing?
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Fifth Birthday

Fifth Birthday

Sunday, May 1, 2005

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Mayday! Mayday! It’s Jack’s birthday — family birthday party anyway, I think he spent the rest of the weekend at other birthday parties! Best present of all — a Saints footy jumper. Best for him and his dad, not best for the non-Saints fans in the family! Lego, radio-controlled car, bug-catcher, bell and helmet for the bicycle — all the essentials that small boys need in the 21st Century!
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Ubuntu Trial

Ubuntu Trial

Friday, Apr 29, 2005

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Here we go, head first without first testing the depth! I’ve decided to try and upgrade from Debian to Ubuntu linux. All the arguments that seem to be raised all seem to apply. Debian unstable is too unstable. Debian stable is too old.

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Bund dinner Two Thousand and Five

Bund dinner Two Thousand and Five

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

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Off to the wilds of Northcote, up over the river, into the wilderness to the north of the Eastern freeway. Searching… searching… for 250 High Street and the Wild Yak café. A banquet for 10, good food, good company, good conversation.
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Numbers

Numbers

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

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How many interesting numbers are there out there that people know and remember? Doing my lunch-time CD importing, and listening to a bit of music, there in the background of Killing Joke’s Mathematics of Chaos is a female voice repeating over and over, “875 020 079”…. What does it mean? As always, google is your friend. A nerdly star-trek reference. Oh well. And a strange coincidence. Ministry’s Psalm 69 was the last CD I read in to be imported into my iPod.
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Tags

Tags

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

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Not sure what I think of tags. I think they’re a poor mans metadata, for those people to lazy to properly annotate things, or those developers too lazy to develop decent interfaces to allow proper annotation. I’ve already had a run-in with the multiple possibilities of Victoria, for example. Today I tagged a fotothing foto that had contained a lion, then looked for other lions. I got told that similar tags included dandelion, sealion, and pavilion.
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The Age — just plain WRONG!

The Age — just plain WRONG!

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

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The Age newspaper has excelled themselves. In an article about Apple opening an iTunes store in Australia, they’ve gone and stated that: iTunes is the only site where iPod users can legally download songs. I guess they haven’t noticed the thousands of songs that are legally available at thousands of legitimate websites because the legal copyright holders has put them there. Just because I can’t pay Apple for music, doesn’t mean that it’s illegal to pick up Teenage Fanclub’s eight songs, for example!
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Day three of a long weekend

Day three of a long weekend

Monday, Apr 25, 2005

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Tawny frogmouth pretending to not be here This morning Jo and I took mum and dad on an orientation tour of Oakleigh, around through the shops again and over to Brickmakers park. All the water features have been dry and rusted for months now, I bet they will need replacing when they’re turned back on — if indeed they’ll ever be turned back on. The Indian Mynas and Noisy Miners seemed even noisier than normal around one tree, we finally realised it was because they were harassing a Tawny Frogmouth that was trying to be invisible against the tree trunk.
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Further down the Great Ocean Road

Further down the Great Ocean Road

Sunday, Apr 24, 2005

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After breakfast it was decided to go for a walk down to the beach, around past the Erskine river and maybe along to the Lorne pier. All quite simple, until you try to take two young nephews and all the required support infrastructure along! I think it was at least an hour from decision to leave until we actually walked out the door. Back at the house, examine the maps to see what would be the easiest way to get from Lorne to the Otway Fly — once again we seem to have left it too late, so it seems Jo and I are doomed to never visit!
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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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