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Journal for [2003-02-01 Sat]

Journal for [2003-02-01 Sat]

Saturday, Feb 1, 2003

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Tired, slow to start, hard to get out of bed. It’s the beer that does it — beer to unwind from the chaotic end to a crazy week, beer to farewell a friend of Jo’s, off overseas for a year. A day of inconsequential domestic duties… and also the first day of the Year of the Sheep, apparently not a particularly auspicious year. This evening was an evening of coincidences. We dropped by to visit Marko and Lesley, with a vague idea of going to dinner at a café nearby in Carnegie.
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Journal for [2003-01-31 Fri]

Journal for [2003-01-31 Fri]

Friday, Jan 31, 2003

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Friday, work goes crazy, petrol prices go up. The latter happens every Friday, the former, only on the Fridays near to the start of semester.
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Journal for [2003-01-30 Thu]

Journal for [2003-01-30 Thu]

Thursday, Jan 30, 2003

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Well pleased with myself — my mum gave us a calendar this year that has a different pasta recipe for each month of the year. Jo and I joked that we had to make each month’s recipe before the end of that month… we’ve made it so far! Today was ???, made with only a few minor alterations to things that I couldn’t locate in the kitchen. It tasted great, and preparing it was a wonderful way to unwind from the hassles of the day.
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Journal for [2003-01-29 Wed]

Journal for [2003-01-29 Wed]

Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003

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Another hot day — 37 °C late this afternoon, but luckily it cooled down a lot by the time I rode home. It was even trying to rain… A good thing too, since Jo had called me to come home and let her in the door — her keys had dissappeared and she had gone to wait in the pub. Luckily her keys were inside, sitting on the kitchen bench where we’d left them, so it wasn’t necessary to commence the long and involved “replacement of the keys” process…
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Journal for [2003-01-28 Tue]

Journal for [2003-01-28 Tue]

Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003

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I have to shake my head at the amount of “usable junk” that is thrown away every day. Its too hard or too time-consuming to sort, or to give it to someone who can make use of it, so it all just gets dumped in a hopper and crushed as rubbish. Stepping out of our building at lunch time I was confronted by a hopper half-full of old monitors, PC cases and miscellaneous computer junk…
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Monday, Jan 27, 2003

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Joey just about to ride into the Yarra Ranges park, about a third of the way up Mount Donna Buang
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Lilydale-Warburton rail trail

Lilydale-Warburton rail trail

Monday, Jan 27, 2003

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This afternoon we decided that it was time to get out of the house and complete the Lilydale to Warburton rail trail — lazy pair that we are! We parked at Woori-Yallock and lunched on pies from their award-winning bakery, then down to the trail to ride off along the valley — periodically checking the horizon for any signs of smoke! There are no bushfires around this part of the state, but I didn’t really want to be around if one started from a cigarette out of a car window.
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Hot day in the city

Hot day in the city

Saturday, Jan 25, 2003

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Stupidly hot day today — a maximum of 44.1 °C, extreme measures were called for in order to cope. Even early in the morning it was too hot to stay in bed so we ended up getting up earlier than during the week! We found out later that it was 30 °C at 6 am! Jo and I headed into the city and spent most of the afternoon inside Myer, looking around at wedding registry goods.
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Toys, cycling humour

Toys, cycling humour

Friday, Jan 24, 2003

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No sign of the 37 °C maximum yet, but its still early in the day… Good news on my latest toy — an email from aagelectronica to say they’ve shipped my weather station. Now to wait for it to be delivered… This must take the cake in the “nearly hitting a celebrity” stakes. I thought I had a close call a couple of years ago with Mark Seymour of Hunters and Collectors when he wobbled down the middle of the bike track, but this… (from <uk.
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Werk

Werk

Thursday, Jan 23, 2003

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Lets see if we can open our email inbox without a Nigerian Business Proposal falling out… just once this week — Yay! There isn’t one today. Oh boy, all of a sudden people realised that we’re getting behind schedule to deploy the new student system. Mass panic at lunch time and a call for volunteers over the long weekend so that we have a demonstrable system by Tuesday… I’ve deployed the four new servers that we needed — I can’t see much point in people beating their breasts and coming in martyr-like over the weekend if we don’t have a definite plan of the work that needs doing.
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Journal for [2003-01-22 Wed]

Journal for [2003-01-22 Wed]

Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003

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Ho-hum, it must be Nigerian Business Proposal week — yet another one today… Damn, and another single-hulled oil tanker has just sunk off the coast of Spain. Another thousand tonnes of oil to leak out and pollute the coast. CodeCon 2003 is on soon. Looks to have the usual very interesting mix of presentations and papers. Interesting bits of network traffic occur all the time, probes, weird requests, attempted logins, etc.
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Journal for [2003-01-21 Tue]

Journal for [2003-01-21 Tue]

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003

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Further to yesterday’s rant — another day, another two Nigerian Business Proposals! More banking stupidities. I paid the rent, easy enough, just transfer money from my account to the real-estate agent. Then tried to pay the phone and electricity bills — both have “B-PAY facilities on their bills, but neither accepts credit cards, on the other hand, both of them also have a phone number so that you can pay by credit card!
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Journal for [2003-01-20 Mon]

Journal for [2003-01-20 Mon]

Monday, Jan 20, 2003

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Five Nigerian Business Offers in my inbox this morning — this is getting ridiculous! There was a four-page article on the scam in Saturday’s Age, and I’ve now got 40 copies of them in my spam collection! Is there anybody out there who lives in Nigeria who isn’t involved in scamming money off people? Weather… A colleague sent me a few data sheets regarding the Dallas semiconductor 1-Wire data transmission system, and the 1-Wire Weather Station that utilises it.
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Journal for [2003-01-19 Sun]

Journal for [2003-01-19 Sun]

Sunday, Jan 19, 2003

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An amusing little venture this afternoon — Jo and I cycled up to a town-house development in Abbotsford to look at the display homes. It caught our eye in yesterday’s paper, so we thought it would be fun to have a look! Very impressive loft-style “apartments, hugely spacious, masses of storage space, two or three bedrooms… and only three-quarters of a million dollars a piece! After admiring all the centrally controlled lights and entertainment equipment, poking our noses into all the cupboards, and leafing through the company documents that the developers have left lying around, we quietly left before the agent could embarrass us by asking how many of them we wanted to buy!
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Annoyance in the bike shop

Annoyance in the bike shop

Saturday, Jan 18, 2003

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An irritating bit of shopping today in a bike shop — I ducked in to take a quick look at helmets, since mine is starting to fall apart and I’ll probably have to replace it soon. The 20-ish guy in the shop was far too over-eager to sell me something, anything, now but also seemed to be of the mind-set that anyone venturing out on a bicycle without a helmet was guaranteed of dieing of head injuries in only days.
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Journal for [2003-01-17 Fri]

Journal for [2003-01-17 Fri]

Friday, Jan 17, 2003

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Totally useless statistics for today. The distribution of student account names, sorted by first letter! Very few Umbertos… count X 6087 a 2406 b 5241 c 3481 d 2179 e 1180 f 1777 g 2554 h 798 i 6157 j 4847 k 4239 l 6528 m 2637 n 373 o 2994 p 200 q 3293 r 7779 s 3111 t 113 u 1102 v 2012 w 530 x 2427 y 485 z Moonlight ride Bike riders on a full moon ride This evening Jo and I caught the train to Eltham and joined a few friends for their monthly full-moon ride back to the city.
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Wishing for winter

Wishing for winter

Thursday, Jan 16, 2003

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Riding home, listening to the magpies in the trees — memories of riding on frosty mornings in Canberra. Melbourne’s weather is a little too mild in the winter, sometimes I miss the really cold, clear, mornings!
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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The amazing, and expensive, suspended bicycle path along Gardiners creek under the Monash freeway
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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One of the more interesting vehicles I've met parked or driving along the Gardiners creek bicycle path
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Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Richmond to Monash University, and home again. Here are some of the hi-lights and low-lights of my daily ride to and from work. Despite a personal dislike for “cycle paths” and most other cycle-specific infrastructure, most of my commute does use one of Melbourne’s bike paths… except that they aren’t really bike paths. Every off-road bicycle path in Melbourne is really a shared-use pedestrian footway, where pedestrians have absolute right of way over cyclists, and there is no legal enforcement of the keep left requirement, or any of the other rules and regulations, which appear to be little more than local council suggestions.
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Journal for [2003-01-15 Wed]

Journal for [2003-01-15 Wed]

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Inspired by some photos that someone (Daniel Colyer) took of their winter cycle commute in the UK, I’ve stopped on the path here and there to take some of my own commute. The countryside isn’t as striking, but some may be interested. I decided not to include photos of the growing list of dead things that I’ve seen in the last week, but will list them here: a large dog at the side of Ferntree Gully road a flying fox in the park in Chadstone a water rat on the Boulevard 1m long eel beside the Gardiners creek path There’s not many interesting live animals to be seen, apart from a myriad of birds and dogs, all I see are European Carp in the creek, and — once — an Eastern Long-necked tortoise.
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Looking west along Gardiners creek from one of the myriad of bridges on the cycle path
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HFBV?

HFBV?

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003

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Nearly lost my coffee this morning — in a messy sprayed guffaw at reading the latest obesity-related message in <uk.rec.cycling>. There was mention of someone suffering from HFBV — the acronym looked innocent enough at first it looked reasonable enough — until I read the footnote explaining it at the bottom of the page.
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Journal for [2003-01-13 Mon]

Journal for [2003-01-13 Mon]

Monday, Jan 13, 2003

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A forecast high of 37 °C today, and bushfires all over the state. There is a smoky brown haze covering the city, everything is smelling of smoke, and there’s a strange orangy-red tinge to everything as I rode to work. Lunchtime, hot, still and smoky. Walking across the campus felt like walking in the bush in summer. Cicadas calling, the smell of eucalyptus, dust and smoke. Demos http://www.mindcandydvd.com/: a DVD of Demos.
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On the beach

On the beach

Sunday, Jan 12, 2003

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Another lazy day on the beach, but a far more careful Jo and Adrian today! My feet were painful everytime the sun shone on them, so I spent nearly the entire day lying under the sun-shelter, only coming out when young Jack demanded some entertainment in the surf. The trip to the Lorne book exchange is becoming almost a ritual, its one of the better second-hand book shops that I know of, with an amazing range of old hardcover titles by authors nobody has ever heard of.
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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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