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Girlfriends?

Girlfriends?

Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003

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Shocking news! I found out that random people actually read some of the pages in here. One of Jo’s colleagues complained that I’m out of date — as a married man I shouldn’t have a link to my girlfriend.
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Debian woes

Debian woes

Monday, Jun 2, 2003

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Three dud floppy disks and one good one, a quick download of the Debian rescue image — mine seems to have vanished — and finally wyvern is back on the air. In the future I must remember to get these sorted out before fiddling around with partitioning! Boot off the rescue floppy, rescue root=/dev/hdc1, login and run lilo, logout and restart. Back to where I was on Saturday morning… circle has been giving me grief on the Debian unstable.
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Journal for [2003-05-31 Sat]

Journal for [2003-05-31 Sat]

Saturday, May 31, 2003

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Time to rearrange a few partitions on wyvern. Three hard disks — all nearly full! I thought I’d use the spare 6G on hda and try installing an extra OS… stupidly forgetting that lilo is writing to hda2. All was well until I restarted… Oops! Do you think I can find a rescue floppy anywhere around here… dsk size hda 10G hdb 6G hdc 20G
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Gibberish this is

Gibberish this is

Thursday, May 29, 2003

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Browsing through the latest Australian Personal Computer (June 2003), there’s a review of a bunch of bare-bones mini PCs. The Shuttle systems still look attractive so I thought I’d look up more details on the importer’s website. Assorted pages that won’t display at all, HTML delivered as MIME type text/plain, so browsers don’t interpret it, nothing validates, and PDF files that don’t download from their ftp server at all. Oh yeah, then there’s the Yoda-speak on the pages that you can read…
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Journal for [2003-05-28 Wed]

Journal for [2003-05-28 Wed]

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

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Coughing kept me awake all night — the last time I remember looking at the clock it was nearly 03:45! Then I finally managed to fall asleep… As a result, today I feel like crap and not capable of going to work. Bike theft Dennis just had his brand new Colnago stolen — two days old and someone broke into his house and took it. Sounds suspicious to me! Here’s the picture and the email he sent around, if anyone sees it…
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The revenge of the furniture

The revenge of the furniture

Monday, May 26, 2003

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I think I moved just a little too much furniture over the weekend. Wine racks and washing machines seem to have taken their toll, I’m feeling a little frail this morning…
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Journal for [2003-05-25 Sun]

Journal for [2003-05-25 Sun]

Sunday, May 25, 2003

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Another productive day around the house. Yet another attempt to buy a present for our wedding photographer fails — but I relented and picked up a photo album for myself. Then spent half the afternoon putting a whole bunch of unsorted photos into an album … at last. Pictures from ‘93 to ‘96 — from my trip to the UK [1][2] to just before moving to Melbourne [3]. This evening we drove down to Moorabin, checked out a washing machine and dryer, man-handled the washer into the car and drove it back home again … tomorrow the dryer!
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Journal for [2003-05-24 Sat]

Journal for [2003-05-24 Sat]

Saturday, May 24, 2003

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Shopping day, a new wine rack to show for it, and Baudalino transfers itself from the list of books I might like to buy, to the list of books I’ve bought but haven’t read yet….

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Journal for [2003-05-23 Fri]

Journal for [2003-05-23 Fri]

Friday, May 23, 2003

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The funniest SMS message I think I’ve ever received: “I cant believe you’ve padlocked the chockie bikkies. Not happy jan.” It all came about earlier in the week; Jo had come home early feeling sick, a chocolate biscuit and cup of tea were part of the home-remedy. I jokingly mentioned that I’d have to lock the jar to ensure that there were some left for me — later that night I stumbled over this old padlock — Jo’s old padlock — and snuck it into the pantry.
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Where to for dinner?

Where to for dinner?

Thursday, May 22, 2003

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First you think that it would be a good idea to go out for dinner, then you get your mind firmly set on going out to a particular place for dinner — then when you get there you find that for inexplicable reasons, they’re shut. Why is it so? Umalulik seemed like the place for dinner, we’d been meaning to go there again ever since first trying them out. It was not to be — shut, no idea why.
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Journal for [2003-05-21 Wed]

Journal for [2003-05-21 Wed]

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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Visited the Caulfield campus of my illustrious employer today. Walking across one of the paths on the way out we had to pass between a group of flagpoles on which fluttered a collection of bedraggled-looking flags of various countries. The Australian Aboriginal flag amongst them — but flying upside down. A sly dig using the international distress signal, or was it just a clueless idiot who hung the flag? MLP Debian Mentors: providing a repository of untested debs for a whole bunch ‘o stuff.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003

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More crap dumped beside the bikepath -- a dozen old mattresses this time
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The day of the mattress

The day of the mattress

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

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Mattresses galore! Last night I thought there were only four — either the things have been breeding overnight, or there really were eleven mattresses dumped at the side of the road yesterday. There’s getting to be a lot of rubbish dumped in that area. Amazingly, sometime during the day they’ve all been cleared away. Riding past in the rain this evening it was as though the mattresses had never existed….
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Journal for [2003-05-19 Mon]

Journal for [2003-05-19 Mon]

Monday, May 19, 2003

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W32/Palyh-a and gullible people — just the combination we need to make my Monday fun-filled and busy. I got in this morning in time to find that the wheels had fallen off the world while a new Windows worm has hit the University. Staff everywhere just blindly executed the attachments — a disappointing state of affairs given the publicity surrounding the number of viruses that propagate via email. Around noon our anti-virus vendor supplied us with an update and we set about mopping up.
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Journal for [2003-05-17 Sat]

Journal for [2003-05-17 Sat]

Saturday, May 17, 2003

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Saturday morning — Richmond markets — coffee at Blue Heaven.

Catch a tram to the city to visit the jeweller — finally I have my back! Two weeks without it seemed forever, now I have to get used to wearing it all over again, not to mention the reaction that’ll happen at work when people start asking why I wasn’t wearing it when I first got back from our honeymoon….

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Guinness sickness

Guinness sickness

Friday, May 16, 2003

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One pint of Guinness last night and today I feel like death — maybe I’m finally succumbing to whatever Jo’s had all week. Being kept awake by coughing can’t have helped any. Several strong coffees through the day couldn’t keep me going, eventually I just gave up and headed home at 3 pm. Feeling distinctly green, it was a slow and leisurely ride. Spent the rest of the afternoon in bed!
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Rework required

Rework required

Thursday, May 15, 2003

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I really need to rework my photo album display code. None of the prepackaged ones did what I like, they’ve either got far more features than I want, or the HTML is ugly and full of tables and cruft, or both. Mine just has far too many things hard-coded into it — such as file name formats — and so any non-standard images don’t display.
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Journal for [2003-05-14 Wed]

Journal for [2003-05-14 Wed]

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

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Spent lunch time making a few scans on Allan’s scanner. Its a Nikon Coolscan IV, 1200dpi. About 30M per image, I’m frightened of the amount of disk space that the CanoScan 4000 would chew up if I scanned all my old negatives! The test images are all from Jo’s camera. They start on January 5th, 2002 in New Zealand, and end in April 18, 2003 in Western Australia! That’s about how often I used to use my film camera.
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Good intentions

Good intentions

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

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The intention was to see a movie tonight. Last minute cancellation, Joey has the plague, or flu, or something. Oh well, it was about time we saw a movie, the last one was months ago!
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Journal for [2003-05-12 Mon]

Journal for [2003-05-12 Mon]

Monday, May 12, 2003

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Photo-related thoughts today — maybe I should bite the bullet and buy myself a scanner… the CanoScan FS4000US is recommended by a photographer here at Monash. About $1200 though. Maybe I can recoup some of the costs by scanning other peoples’ stuff… I couldn’t possibly do as as was done in the last one I paid for…

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Journal for [2003-05-11 Sun]

Journal for [2003-05-11 Sun]

Sunday, May 11, 2003

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Dinner for seven, mother’s day special, the pressure is on. How much will we need? What should we make? Have we left it to late to start cooking? I was just about to add the barley into the casserole when the cry rang out “Eek! Stop!” An infestation of weevils was the last thing we needed! Somehow they’d got into the packet before we’d put the packet in the jar, then bred and died in the cupboard.
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Over to the west

Over to the west

Saturday, May 10, 2003

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Off to Scienceworks this afternoon to see the “Vanishing Skills” exhibition before it closes. Horologist, Milliner, Cooper, Wheelwright… Strange to be writing about such old crafts in such a new medium as this. I was quite impressed by the display detailing the manufacture of glass eyes. In an attempt to somehow maintain a semblance of cycle fitness for Jo, the trip to Scienceworks was made by bike. A pleasant enough ride — and it would have been quite quick — but for the decision to ride through Southbank and past the ca$ino so that we could drop in on the CityLink office and replace an e-Tag.
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Journal for [2003-05-09 Fri]

Journal for [2003-05-09 Fri]

Friday, May 9, 2003

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Riding home this evening I watched a mother and baby Common Ringtail possum walking along the hand rail of the bike path. Classic nose-to-tail view, the adult moving slowly, the baby half her size, but snuffling about all over the place. They disappeared too quickly to photograph, but they made me smile. Rolled over 9,000 kilometres on the bike computer as I turned onto Yarra Boulevard. Not a great distance really, I’ve had it for fifteen months, 600km per month, only 7,200km per year!
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Journal for [2003-05-08 Thu]

Journal for [2003-05-08 Thu]

Thursday, May 8, 2003

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After nearly three years of living in the street, I finally got to have dinner in the pub at the end! Steak and soup in the bistro of the Bridge this evening. Good pub food, made more humorous by the TV playing with the sound turned off — we could make up our own sound track to the noxious looking “Greeks on the Roof.” Sound track was provided by Bland FM, or whatever it was.
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Another day, another motorist on the phone

Another day, another motorist on the phone

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

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Moron of the moment: Cycling up Ferntree Gully road around 09:40, here it comes from the side road, white Falcon panel-van, blue sign-writing, window down, driver’s elbow out, phone in hand, brain in neutral, yacking away, half-way out through the Give-Way sign. “PUT THE PHONE DOWN!” I yell as I swerve around the bonnet. A blast on the horn and a scream of abuse, I continue up the hill. A squeal of tyres and he tears up behind me, swerves into the next side street, stops and keeps swearing.
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Journal for [2003-05-06 Tue]

Journal for [2003-05-06 Tue]

Tuesday, May 6, 2003

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Is my PC dying? Sitting here this evening and all of a sudden everything stopped. No response to anything, and the three keyboard lights were flashing… Oh well, so much for the 32 day uptime!
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Journal for [2003-05-05 Mon]

Journal for [2003-05-05 Mon]

Monday, May 5, 2003

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This morning I feel like a badly made cartoon robot. My neck creaks and clunks, I can turn my head to the left, but not to the right. It made riding to work interesting. Spent some more time musing on site designs. Structure and design… structure and design… Along the way I found a blog with an amusing quote “few glasses of Aussie Shiraz/Cabernet.” This country is the size of Europe, it has more wine regions than you can poke a stick at, but to this author, it’s all just a generic “Aussie.
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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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