Week ending Sunday 2010/04/18

Monday 09:06

yesterday remembers wedding anniversary is tomorrow, today suffers monday-morning-itis and forgets wedding anniversary is today. [Original.]

Monday 10:53

cow-orker is reading spam out loud. Will cow-orker #STFU NOW PLZ [Original.]

Tuesday 11:30

OMG there are beautiful russian women waiting to meet me now, who'd a thunk it? [Original.]

Tuesday 11:42

fends off a cow-orker before he can let slip the Paris-Roubaix winner when I haven't seen the last half hour of the race yet [Original.]

Tuesday 13:05

"Mandatory Password Changes Costs Billions in Lost Productivity " .. so guess whose workplace is introducing them www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/11/please_do_not_change_your_password/ [Original.]

Wednesday 09:08

Speed limit on half of campus just upped from 20km/hr to 40km/hr, average motorist now doing 70 in a 40 zone instead of 70 in a 20 zone [Original.]

Wednesday 09:31

@enyap_ynot ah crap, sorry to hear that. was it at home or monash? [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Wednesday 11:58

writes up lack-of-progress project meeting. same as last lack-of-progress project meeting. nothing changed, nothing done.#hatemylife [Original.]

Wednesday 15:52

Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.32-20-generic: ubuntu update [Original.]

Wednesday 20:14

yet again Monash claims to discourage cars driving to campus - but continues with a flat fee for annual parking - no incentive to not drive [Original.]

Wednesday 20:15

@kml ha, great for when little dogs try and run into your wheels - go straight through! [Original, responding to @kml.]

Thursday 12:17

#Telstra has been sending outstanding bills for my closed #BigPond account to my non-existent email address at #BigPond #FAIL [Original.]

Thursday 12:19

#Telstra website "Method Not Allowed" "An error has occurred.". NO SHIT SHERLOCK. [Original.]

Thursday 12:59

cow-orker whinges, and having whinged, whinges some more. #STFU [Original.]

Thursday 19:32

Mum, dad and two year old toddler bop around the kitchen to Adam and the Ants, Stand and deliver... so sad [Original.]

Thursday 21:19

@Cos has two Hillman Hunters gently rusting away in a paddock if you'd like them, one was in the family since '71, the other a "spare" [Original, responding to @Cos.]

Thursday 21:41

@Cos sure, however, paddock in question is maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bungendore&sll=-37.899854,145.087116&sspn=0.050457,0.064373&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bungendore+New+South+Wales&ll=-35.233066,149.411294&spn=0.003264,0.004023&t=h&z=18 [Original, responding to @Cos.]

Thursday 21:51

@kml pronunciation hints for Eyjafjallajokull volcano please! [Original, responding to @kml.]

Friday 10:23

@dailyshoot flic.kr/p/7TM3kK #ds151 [Original, responding to @dailyshoot.]

Friday 10:32

Flickr view count tops 100,000, w00t. 100,016 by the time I remember to check it [Original.]

Friday 10:34

Wow: empty skies above the UK at the moment! - www.flightradar24.com/ /via @brendadada [Original.]

Friday 11:03

@pmcneil www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDJaTgcgiFg [Original, responding to @pmcneil.]

Friday 12:36

listens to cow-orker doing battle with vendor who cannot distinguish technical contact from financial contact [Original.]

Friday 13:11

Via @kml; I care about this alot hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html #alot [Original.]

Friday 13:47

Bow down before our nose leech overlords "T. Rex of Leeches Found in Amazon Swimmers' Noses" www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/t-rex-leech/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Reader [Original.]

Friday 15:24

First nose sucking leeches, now plague spreading marmots. We're doomed, doomed. www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1237602/Plague-fears-after-deadly-China-quake [Original.]

Friday 15:52

#QOTD: "I just broke the internet" [Original.]

Friday 17:34

Garmin, why does google say "about 14,600 for garmin edge faulty power switch"? Could it be #Garmin #Edge #FAIL like on my Edge 705? [Original.]

Saturday 09:48

returns from the bakery with fresh bread, saddened to see the local inoffensive blind pen-seller bloke has been thoroughly beaten up [Original.]

Saturday 16:18

spies a bunch of gents with cameras wandering around #oakleigh #3166. Photo walk? [Original.]

Saturday 18:30

'tis beer o'clock. James squire amber ale [Original.]

Sunday 13:47

returns home, exhausted, from a 2yr old birthday party [Original.]

Sunday 15:10

tries to get on the roof to become digital TV reception aerial man -- surprises chinese neighbours by walking along the fence [Original.]

Sunday 19:14

has replaced the chimney pot missing since Oct. 2004, cannot fix digital TV reception. #ABCTV #FAIL [Original.]

Sunday 20:00

has made dinner of chicken tagine and apple strudel, is content now [Original.]

Sunday 22:02

Ugh, new #doctorwho logo is the pits. Suspects that entire production crew is on speed; replace story with frenetic speed, rinse repeat. [Original.]

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author portrait — ajft looking stylish and black

…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.

…The ISP

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