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KDE and the IXUS 300

KDE and the IXUS 300

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

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Tried to get KDE to recognize my camera. Select Canon IXUS 300 on USB through the control centre, no luck, it can’t see the camera. Tried to follow some of the documentation from the gphoto site, but to no avail.

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Off to visit Garfield!

Off to visit Garfield!

Saturday, May 22, 2004

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Garfield — not the big orange cat, the small Victorian town previously known as Cannibal Creek. Marko and Lesley have had almost two months to settle into their new house — now it was time to visit and explore. Ten minutes on the highway out past Pakenham, Garfield(-38.0666667,145.6833333) is an old village on the rail line, now enjoying a resurgence as it turns into yet-another commuter suburb. The new house was built by a stonemason and has an impressive solidity, thick slabs of stone make up all the external walls, with hundreds of opportunities for rock-climbers to make their way around the inside and outside!
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Browser hassles du jour

Browser hassles du jour

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

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All of a sudden Konqueror won’t work on my PC. It just doesn’t talk to the proxy any more. No idea why not. Then I tried to login to del.icio.us to enter in a few bookmarks from scraps of paper only to discover that Firefox won’t let me login to that system. Today, web browsers hate me.
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More On Phones / Moron Phones

More On Phones / Moron Phones

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

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Ride to work, stop for crossing, push button, wait, lights go orange, lights go red, my light goes green, start forwards, stop as motorist drives through red light while chatting on the phone, ride the rest of the way through intersection, proceed to work. … and in news headlines today: Not content with the enormous number of motorists who illegally and dangerously use their mobile phones while driving, CityLink is now offering an SMS service for accessing their toll accounts.
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Fishy visits

Fishy visits

Sunday, May 16, 2004

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After months of procrastination, this afternoon Jo and I finally decided to go and visit the Melbourne Aquarium. $22 per head to get in the door came as a nasty shock, I’m glad we made use of the discount voucher and got in for half prices — I hate to think how much it would cost to bring a family and kids here! As it was, there was a deafeningly loud squealing throughout the entire place as a large group of small children ran riot at a birthday party.
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Too much beer

Too much beer

Saturday, May 15, 2004

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Beers with friends last night at Monties bar, then some more at Lambs Go Bar — a magnificently named venue — and then this morning, the headache to match. Little Creatures’ Pale Ale, Hoergaarten, Leffe Blonde, Cascade, Holgate Macedon Ale and then the finalé. It was that last beer that did it, a Trappistes Rochefort, — 330ml, 11.5% alcohol and $14! I think I’ll blame it all on a collusion between the Belgian monks and Doctor Alan, it was his email earlier this week that made mention of Belgian beers, so when I saw the Trappistes Rochefort sitting there amongst the list of 100 or more beers, I just had to try it…
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Procrastinations

Procrastinations

Friday, May 14, 2004

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The intention was there but still nothing happened… Left the bicycle at home so I could visit the bank on the way to work, then buy the new PC at lunch time. Running late, I skipped the bank, then lunch came and went and I was busy. So yet again I haven’t done anything … maybe this is my subconscious telling me something….
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RDF

RDF

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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More fiddling about with latitude, longitude, RDF and geourl. Just poking and hacking so far, nothing as useful as the nearestAirport of last Friday!
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Geolocation and decimal places

Geolocation and decimal places

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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What is the diameter of the earth, and how many decimal places are relevant in all these latitude/longitude pairs that I’m quoting on web pages? Its been bugging me for a while, finally dug around and had a quick look. 40,075.16km at the equator, 40,008km through the poles. Hmm, that means that one degree is approximately 111km, one decimal point is 11km, two decimal points is 1.1km and more than that is pretty much irrelevant… at least until I get my hands on a GPS unit.
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MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-05-11 Tue]

MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-05-11 Tue]

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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Global Gazetteer Version 2: Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, etc. Looseend.org — where looseends remain untied: Someone’s blog, he cycles near Reading The PeoplesDNS project: International LEGO Users Group:
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Site maintenance

Site maintenance

Monday, May 10, 2004

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Cleared up my laptop so I actually had room for the weekend’s photos! Yet another article on CD longevity — or more accurately, the lack of longevity — and I’m even more convinced that I should keep everything online always. Wow, discovered that I’d misspelt my own name in the PHP script that generates these pages! I wonder how much google has found under the wrong spelling!
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Recovery

Recovery

Saturday, May 8, 2004

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Thoroughly caught up on all the missing sleep last night, then work up hungry and with a working shoulder again — I seem to have figured out a way of lying on it that doesn’t end up twisting or stretching it — at last. Jo was still sleeping, and almost needed a crowbar to shift her from the bed, so breakfast was late and lazy. We finally headed up the street towards the market sometime around eleven!
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Major RDF progress!

Major RDF progress!

Friday, May 7, 2004

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After managing to roll over in the night and pull a muscle in my shoulder I couldn’t get to work — or probably do anything useful once there — so I stayed home and rested… and read… and finally experimented. I’m not sure how legitimate it all is, but there’s now an image for my journal pages showing the country around the nearest airport. An ugly swag of my PHP using RDF API for PHP, a bunch of itty-bitty RDF files, munged together into a bigger collection of RDF, and a few scripts that use xplanet to pre-generate the images.
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New PC shopping

New PC shopping

Thursday, May 6, 2004

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http://www.scorptec.com.au/: nearby and has all the Shuttle bits and pieces that I was after. Still seems to be about $1400 for what I’m want though. http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/: also sells the Shuttles, but they’ve got the groovy little EPIA MiniITX systems as well.
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Coincidence and Death

Coincidence and Death

Tuesday, May 4, 2004

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Yesterday as I was riding to work someone in a car drove through a give-way sign in front of me. Not too close, I could see that they were going to ignore the law and ignore me from miles away. I didn’t get annoyed, I didn’t yell, just acknowledged that here was one more person in car who didn’t care about anything outside their car, and could quite easily kill or injure someone.
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Back on the bicycle

Back on the bicycle

Monday, May 3, 2004

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After two weeks of riding the Honda to work every day, I thought it was about time to move the pedals back off the tandem and onto Norky bike, then ride it to work. Suddenly realised that I haven’t been contacted by the Trek shop about my helmet yet — I’ve still got the spare one they lent me just on a month ago. Must ring them up and find out what’s going on…
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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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