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Banks

Banks

Monday, Jun 24, 2002

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OK, out of the goodness of my heart, I’ve given the Commonwealth Bank one last chance. The last few months’ statements show that I’m now being billed around $100 a year for the privilege of banking with them, and together with the rest of Australia “I don’t like banks.” Catalysed by the ACCC report showing that the public paid around $7.1 billion in bank fees in the last year! My account is changing to a new type, with fewer fees and consequently, less chances for me to actually use it (We can’t have me actually getting access to my own money, can we).
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Journal for [2002-06-22 Sat]

Journal for [2002-06-22 Sat]

Saturday, Jun 22, 2002

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An ignoble end to a fine piece of furniture. Today we tossed out the hairy-brown-couch, left it lying destitute at the side of the road, waiting for collection by the council on Monday morning.

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Robotics

Robotics

Friday, Jun 21, 2002

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Robotics http://www.robotoz.com.au/: an Australian source of parts and kits! http://www.robotbooks.com/: a large collection of books. VHS to Digital video Some notes, grabbed from a posting to the Audio/Video forum of arstechnica
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Journal for [2002-06-20 Thu]

Journal for [2002-06-20 Thu]

Thursday, Jun 20, 2002

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The free washing machine has just changed to a sixty-six dollar washing machine, however it does now have a pump that works. It amazes me at the stuff that people throw out at these rubbish collections! It was frightening out on the road riding home this evening. I was starting to suspect that everyone had picked up their pay and spent it on stupid-pills. First one was some idiot overtaking along Gardiner road and heading straight at me, apparently the new 50 ㎞/h speed limits are not to his satisfaction.
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Free washing machine

Free washing machine

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2002

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Woohoo! A free washing machine. I think it’s illegal — or certainly against the council “local laws” — but when someone dumps a perfectly good washing machine at the side of the road for the council hard-rubbish collection, I think its environmentally sound to pick it up! Plugging and plumbing it in showed that it isn’t perfectly good, just mostly good. Everything works except the pump, so we can use it as a gravity emptying washing machine, safe in the knowledge that should gravity fail, the inability to wash our clothes is the least of our worries.
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Journal for [2002-06-18 Tue]

Journal for [2002-06-18 Tue]

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2002

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First frost I’ve seen so far this year! Normally I’m not out of bed early enough, but today it was back on norky bike to get to work. Cold and misty along the river, with the fog rising up off the water, then frost along the creek through Hawthorn. I could feel the temperature rise as the path climbed from the creek up to Glenferrie road. This evening, curiosity got the better of me so I went for a ride to see just how bad North Road is for cycling along.
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Mostly MLP

Mostly MLP

Monday, Jun 17, 2002

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http://urbanphoto.org/: Urban photographs of a number of cities, including Melbourne. http://webcam.omni.net.au/: Webcams showing Melbourne. (Although nowhere near as good as speed-hump cam) Then I found a few links to more cycling material from the urbanphoto site. http://urbanbicyclist.org/: I know where the development version is, but I’m not supposed to tell. http://www.johnforester.com/: John Forester, outspoken cycling advocate. http://www.tpg1.com//protest/city/nobike/van_bikelanesbad.htm: Why Bike Lanes are a Bad Idea. Flip left for right for Australian use, it sums up all my feelings on the subject.
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Journal for [2002-06-15 Sat]

Journal for [2002-06-15 Sat]

Saturday, Jun 15, 2002

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The Saturday Age’s general knowledge crossword has started to be a bit of a morning ritual. Completeness varies between 25% and 95%, I don’t think we’ve ever finished one. Today I knew one of the answers was Nietzsche, but couldn’t for life of me remember the correct spelling. Enter one of the more interesting reference materials I’ve ever used while completing a crossword… TISM’s Hot Dogma liner notes. Into the city to see the exhibition of RAIA entrants for this years awards.
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Journal for [2002-06-14 Fri]

Journal for [2002-06-14 Fri]

Friday, Jun 14, 2002

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I feel like an old cripple this morning. Somehow I managed to pull a muscle in my back while tossing papers and books around on Wednesday afternoon. Tired too, as a result of the Concrete Blonde gig last night. A most impressive show, even if Johnette did appear to be wearing snakeskin pyjamas! Old songs and new songs, ending with Tomorrow Wendy. I managed to take a couple of photos, but was more interested in listening and having a good time than in photography.
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Journal for [2002-06-13 Thu]

Journal for [2002-06-13 Thu]

Thursday, Jun 13, 2002

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Haha! Despite the best efforts of the motorist in the red Honda Civic I’m still here. Wet slippery road, lights turn orange, three cars in front of me run the orange, I stop, car behind me flies around me and slides sideways around the corner through the red light! Received an email back from Kodak Support Australia, they’re really sorry but they’ve got no idea. Please call 1300.138.029. I called them and found out the good news and the bad news.
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Journal for [2002-06-12 Wed]

Journal for [2002-06-12 Wed]

Wednesday, Jun 12, 2002

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Evil weather this afternoon. There was a huge thunderstorm around 5 pm, then by the time I left work it had blown away to leave everything soaked and an icy chill in the air. Owing to lack of interest in the kitchen, dinner was provided by Grandma Funk’s, Swan Street Richmond.
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Journal for [2002-06-11 Tue]

Journal for [2002-06-11 Tue]

Tuesday, Jun 11, 2002

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laugh — Another day, another Nigerian Business offer. Uploaded the photos from the weekend. Ten points and a free beer to the first person who can spot where we live. No, we’re not at the end of the rainbow!
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Journal for [2002-06-10 Mon]

Journal for [2002-06-10 Mon]

Monday, Jun 10, 2002

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Today was a holiday for a some, a leave day for me, but hardly worth taking the day off. Just like the last holiday, Anzac Day, it was cold and grey and miserable. With much yawning we dragged ourselves out of bed in the dark in time for a quick breakfast before driving Kathy to the airport. Managed to take the right turnoff this time! We joked that it was hardly a typical morning’s drive along Citylink, seemed to be that the whole city had either gone away for the weekend or stayed in bed this morning — the roads were nearly deserted.
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Journal for [2002-06-08 Sat]

Journal for [2002-06-08 Sat]

Saturday, Jun 8, 2002

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Running late to head towards the airport this morning there was a comedy of events. A girl moving into one of the other units had parked a van across half the driveway, we could have driven around it except that they’d left a washing machine standing in the middle of the other half. Rather than move the washing machine, three of them indulged in some very complicated conversation and exchange of keys, then started the van and inched it backwards out onto the street and around their other, illegally parked, vehicle.
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Journal for [2002-06-07 Fri]

Journal for [2002-06-07 Fri]

Friday, Jun 7, 2002

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Dee Dee Ramone is dead. chuckle the Ramones are leading the Beatles two to one1. I heard Julie is a Punk being played in tribute this morning on RRR. Wow, that was a demo from 1975… what were we all doing in 1975? I seem to remember Sherbet and Skyhooks, and Mrs Andrews my fifth grade teacher. Favourite junk mail for today: . [ 30: customerservice5034l57@] Free Septic Tank Information 6618RdoT4-86-11 I’ve been looking at some of the photos that are online, especially some of the material on photo.
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Journal for [2002-06-06 Thu]

Journal for [2002-06-06 Thu]

Thursday, Jun 6, 2002

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Downloaded the free release of QNX and their IDE. What a hassle, it fails during download so I had to re-enter everything in their #@#$%??@#$$$!! registration form. 195.1Mb 9d07009277b9aa3ecd9e84d4a3ca4770 qnxnc620.iso http://www.qnx.com/: QNX
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Journal for [2002-06-05 Wed]

Journal for [2002-06-05 Wed]

Wednesday, Jun 5, 2002

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There’s one problem with 9 pm movies — not getting to be before midnight. Yawn I must be getting old, but it was very difficult to get out of bed this morning. A beautiful clear wintry day to be out cycling. World environment day I believe, not that you could tell based on what the Australian and US governments had to say about the Kyoto treaty today! Riding in to work I diverged from the bike track and explored a few short cuts and side tracks that I’ve seen people use, they seem to be much more straightforward and involve far fewer bridge crossings of the creek.
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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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