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X problems after updates

X problems after updates

Saturday, Jun 18, 2005

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Yet again, problems restarting X after updating the machine. Yet again, had to reconfigure with sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

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Wilsons Prom

Wilsons Prom

Saturday, Jun 11, 2005

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A grey and dreary-looking morning, everyone sat around inside for far too long eating far too much breakfast. In the afternoon the weather cleared so Jo and I headed out for a walk to Norman point — anywhere to get out of the cabin! Down Tidal river as the tide was at its lowest and just starting to come back in, amazing how quickly it covers the sandbanks once the incoming tide overcomes the outgoing current!
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To Wilsons Prom

To Wilsons Prom

Friday, Jun 10, 2005

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Home from work and packed and gone by 6.30 pm, out into Friday night long-weekend traffic on the freeway. Bumper to bumper to Cranbourne, 40 ㎞/h or so, always wary of the one in a hundred idiot determined to do something stupid in the heavy traffic in the rain. Somewhere around Lang Lang we started getting hungry, will it be Korrumburra or Leongatha for dinner? Joked about stopping in at the Loch pub, which we’d done two years ago when heading out this way, then realised that it wasn’t such a joke — we were just about to drive past Loch!
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Noo camera!

Noo camera!

Thursday, Jun 9, 2005

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I blame my uncle! Last weekend when we visited and got to see Graeme on his flying visit to Australia he had a shiny new camera. Not just any shiny new camera either — the same model IXUS 700 I’ve been debating with myself…. The last fortnight has been extra difficult too, with the old camera in for repair at Canon, and me with no camera. Prices seem to range from a RRP of $885 down to $660, with half a dozen businesses selling them for around $570 via eBay in Australia as “Pay in Australia, shipped from Hong Kong to you and identified as ‘gift’ for customs to avoid GST.
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The three ring circus

The three ring circus

Thursday, Jun 9, 2005

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Australia Post actually called me back! I was starting to wonder if it was going to happen; I’d even jotted down a note to call them up and find out what was happening about my call on the 23rd…. The call lasted under a minute, “We’ve spoken to the delivery contractor and been assured that future deliveries will not be left unattended, you will recieve a card and need to pick parcels up from your local post office.
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Testing 1... 2... 3...

Testing 1... 2... 3...

Wednesday, Jun 8, 2005

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Just testing, having a bit of a poke around at audioscrobbler and displaying my most recent listenings: index.php
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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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…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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