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Monday, day of hoaxes

Monday, day of hoaxes

Monday, Dec 2, 2002

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First I had an email from a friend, passing on the jdbmgr.exe virus hoax. Then there was yet another Nigerian Business offer sitting in my intray. The other was an hour later by a coworker, who received the Friend of a Friend warning of the Wallet and the Terrorist and the plot to blow up the local shopping centre. The minutest piece of cynicism or the tiniest check on the net would have shown this one has been circulating since November 2001, but no, deeply worried, it is forwarded on to all of us.
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A teevee, oh no!

A teevee, oh no!

Saturday, Nov 30, 2002

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OK, we’ve done it now. The TV has been purchased — and what a comedy that turned into! It seemed to take a quarter of an hour for the staff in Dick Smiths to find one in their store-room and get it to the checkouts. I was amazed at the size of the box, concerned that it wouldn’t fit in the car, but since the washing machine went in, just assumed that the Astra could take it… As the young lads were wheeling it out to the car-park I realised why it looked so large.
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CM

CM

Friday, Nov 29, 2002

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Time to be a feral unemployed bike-activist asshole (according to one posting in that bastion of petrol-headed free speech, <aus.cars>). After several years of reading the Critical Mass mailing lists, but not going to any of their rides, I decided to head into the city for the 7th birthday ride. The last times I was there, years ago, I became quite disillusioned that there were a small number of people who were pro-bike, a large number of people who were anti-car, and a medium sized number of people who were just anti-everything.
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BMW Boxer to drool over

BMW Boxer to drool over

Thursday, Nov 28, 2002

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Browsing a few Motorcycle-related bits and pieces I found a BMW Boxer to make me drool. Just the kind of vague ideas I’ve had of what I might like in a café-racer style of bike. http://www.teamincomplete.com/boxerintro.htm: Team Incomplete
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Lethal bike paths

Lethal bike paths

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002

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The mud from yesterday is still there on the bike path this morning; Marko rang me at work to thank me for warning him about it, apparently when he got to the underpass there were three cyclists crashed in the slime, one with a suspected broken wrist. He has spent half the morning playing telephone tag between City of Buroondara council and VicRoads, nobody wanting to take ownership of the problem or clean the path.
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Rain, and unusable bike paths

Rain, and unusable bike paths

Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002

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Not quite the end of the drought — but it was pissing down all night. There was about half an inch of water in the containers on the balcony, and Gardiners creek was a churning mass of mud, water, and polystyrene run-off from all the surrounding suburbs. My timing was perfect this morning — the ride was humid, but there was no rain. Then half an hour after I arrived, it started pouring again.
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Open letter to idiot

Open letter to idiot

Monday, Nov 25, 2002

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Another day, another homicidal maniac… Dear Sir, Just in case you’re reading this, the reason that the cyclist smacked your car with an open hand — making that remarkably loud sound — was that as you drove through the give-way sign and straight into his path, he had just had to perform an emergency stop to avoid riding into your drivers door at 40km/hr. Oh well, he certainly jumped. Now if only he learns from the experience…
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Journal for [2002-11-24 Sun]

Journal for [2002-11-24 Sun]

Sunday, Nov 24, 2002

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It certainly wasn’t going to hit 33 °C today — so much for the forecast. On the other hand, there were no more excuses, it was finally time to perform a vigorous house-cleaning. After a mere half-hour, the carpet was located beneath a thick layer of read, unread, and partially-read newspapers, numerous unwashed and discarded clothes were returned to their respective stores, and a couple of kilos of toast crumbs removed from the kitchen floor…
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Summer?

Summer?

Saturday, Nov 23, 2002

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Somewhere, someone must have decided that today was summer. The hazy cloud lifted while we were at the markets and it quickly heated up to around 30 °C, with nothing much on the agenda for today, it all leant a very lazy summer feeling to the day.
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Mick Thomas meets Dr Suess...

Mick Thomas meets Dr Suess...

Friday, Nov 22, 2002

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Its either a sure sign of senility, or of hanging around with a two-year-old nephew for too long. Tonight we went off to the HiFi bar to see Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing play, supported by Gorgeous and the Drowners. During the Drowners’ set, Stewart (Stuart?) from the Sure Thing was standing near Jo and I watching them. The conversation between Jo and I was something along the lines of:
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Naked politicians!

Naked politicians!

Thursday, Nov 21, 2002

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Some idiot of a politician is proposing that Muslim women in Australia should be prevented from wearing traditional garments; due to the possibility of them carrying concealed weapons or explosives — fine, I’ll agree with it, so long as it applies equally to all other clothing that could conceal any kind of weapon. I think the first place to enforce it would be in Parliament — “for their own protection from terrorists” — just think how quickly the sittings would take place if all those fat old men had to face each other naked and shouting…
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Journal for [2002-11-20 Wed]

Journal for [2002-11-20 Wed]

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002

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A quick jaunt up to the shops before breakfast to get some bread, and — surprisingly — there was only one car illegally parked in the clearway on Bridge road, and it even had a parking ticket on it. Normally there’s at least one car per block! The cool and drizzly weather has cut down on the number of other people riding in the mornings, and on the number of wandering people-with-dogs on the path.
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Journal for [2002-11-19 Tue]

Journal for [2002-11-19 Tue]

Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002

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Cool, drizzly morning rain; Eucalyptus smells along the creek. http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/: Mesa 3D toolkit has released version 5 of their software. http://www.doxpara.com/: assorted interesting stuff: Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 I went through a number of my email mailing lists and changed the subscriptions from my work address to my private one — not that I’m planning on changing jobs anytime soon, it just seemed more appropriate. Along the way I added the hooks into spamassassin on the mail processing on bund, and changed from spambouncer to spamassassin on my home machine.
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Plan9 notes for [2002-11-19 Tue]

Plan9 notes for [2002-11-19 Tue]

Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002

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Too much documentation to get my head around. I’m printing out Volume 1 from the PDF file to bind it and put in a folder. Only problem is that various pages are now out of date, or new ones exist! Found the drawterm binaries and successfully accessed CPU/Auth from my WinXP laptop!
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Journal for [2002-11-18 Mon]

Journal for [2002-11-18 Mon]

Monday, Nov 18, 2002

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yawn. For some stupid reason I woke up at around 2:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, it wasn’t helped by not getting to bed before midnight — so now I have to try and survive Monday without falling asleep on my feet. Interesting fun and games across the street at breakfast time — as I sat down to coffee and toast I noticed two of Victoria’s finest Police officers standing around waiting at the door.
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Journal for [2002-11-16 Sat]

Journal for [2002-11-16 Sat]

Saturday, Nov 16, 2002

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Off into the city this afternoon to shop around for Joey’s birthday present — I know what I want, I just can’t find it! Eventually successful, not only that, but the shop in question had the book on sale! Along the way I checked out the Lego Mindstorms that Dick Smith has — it’s getting very tempting as a present to myself! None of the other chain stores had it, so price checking wasn’t possible, but I did get to see all the current cool bits of Lego that they do have — like the Bionicle robot thingies.
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Plan9 notes for [2002-11-15 Fri]

Plan9 notes for [2002-11-15 Fri]

Friday, Nov 15, 2002

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Notes on how to use secstore on a terminal-only system (where auth server is unavailable). Put the following in $home/lib/profile: auth/aescbc -d < factotum.aes | read -m > /mnt/factotum/ctl Assorted ideas for software to write or port: Tool to aid HTML/SGML editing Tool to view EXIF JPEG data as a file system (see photocd tools) File systems for NTFS, EXT2, Coda?, Reiser? USB camera USB hard-drive (Zip? Floppy?) Python is available, investigate simple graphics programs to get a feel for the system
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Plan9 notes for [2002-11-14 Thu]

Plan9 notes for [2002-11-14 Thu]

Thursday, Nov 14, 2002

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Succcess! CPU/Auth/KFS server is now operational. typo in /rc/bin/cpurc, correct answer was to change for (in in m i S t) to for (i in m i S t) Corrected /lib/ndb/common to include an authdom and now can add new users. TODO: Build a new terminal to use the CPU/Auth server I guess… or get the T21’s network card working. Digging into the T21’s ethernet adapter, Windows XP identifies it as:
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Plan9 notes for [2002-11-13 Wed]

Plan9 notes for [2002-11-13 Wed]

Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002

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First major attempt to rebuild niflheim as a stand-alone plan9 CPU/Auth/KFS machine; with partial success. Stepping through the instructions in the Wiki: Secstore key: blahbah authid: bootes password: blahblah auth. domain: ajft.org
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Plan9 notes for [2002-11-12 Tue]

Plan9 notes for [2002-11-12 Tue]

Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002

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Slowly stepping onwards — niflheim is now running at 1280x1024x8 by changing /n/9fat/plan9.ini to include: monitor=multisync vgasize=1280x1024x8 None of the 1600x1200 monitors available in /lib/vgadb work with the Hewlett Packard HP91 that I’ve got, so for now 1280x1024 is the best I can do. They all nearly work, but with terrible refresh rates or poor use of the screen… (cm751, cm801u, mf8221e, pro502, 445x, p815, a901h) Under WinXP, the HP91 runs at 1600x1200 at frequencies 93.
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Thoughts of tandems

Thoughts of tandems

Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002

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The Spiegeltent is back in its box, back home to Belgium for some R&R. That’ll teach me to not quite get around to visiting it. Maybe next year… Hmmm, maybe its time to get serious and compare the KHS Alite and Cannondale MT800 tandems: KHS Alite Cannondale MT800 Frame 7005 Cannondale Mountain Tandem Size 20"x16" MS/LS/LM/XS/XM Weight 17.5kg 17.9kg Price $3300 $4400 Fork O/s CrMo Unicrown Fatty R 1 1/18 Headset Tioga DX/2 Ahead Cane Creek C-1 Rims Sun Rhyno Lite, 40hole Sun Rhyno Lite, 40hole Front Hub Alloy QR Shimano Tandem Rear Hub XT 145mm Shimano Tandem Tyres KHS 26x1.
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Journal for [2002-11-11 Mon]

Journal for [2002-11-11 Mon]

Monday, Nov 11, 2002

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Weird stuff is going on in the Melbourne Critical Mass “community.” Flames, etc appearing on the mailing list, and the sound of personalities clashing in the night… There has been an interesting discussion on bells and the sounding of same prior to passing pedestrians. The argument for is in the interests of peace and harmony of all human-powered transport, the argument against is that most pedestrians on cyclable paths either know the bikes are there, and so don’t need the bells, or don’t know the bikes are there, and are such dopey idiots that making a warning noise is not in the best interests of cyclist or pedestrian.
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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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