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Journal for [2002-06-04 Tue]

Journal for [2002-06-04 Tue]

Tuesday, Jun 4, 2002

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An interesting variation of my route to get home today. I ended up nearly circumnavigating Richmond after impatience at seeing the traffic. It was banked up from McRobb bridge around the Boulevard, then back down onto the freeway to the toll gantry. (Toll gantry on a freeway? Too hard, I’ll explain some other time.) Anyway, I continued on around to Punt Rd, nearly slammed into the back of a bimbo who decided to stop in a no-standing merge lane, phone to ear, while she attempted to merge one-handed with 80 ㎞/h traffic, then had to continue up to Bridge Rd because I’d forgotten that you can’t turn right into Swan St.
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The probe...

The probe...

Saturday, Jun 1, 2002

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Brothel Probe Goes Too Far Probably one of the more spectacularly eye-watering headlines I’ve seen in a newspaper all year. Jo and I spent half the afternoon sniggering and warning each other to “beware of the brothel probe.”
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Rear wheel from hell

Rear wheel from hell

Friday, May 31, 2002

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That’s it! Tomorrow the evil rear wheel from hell comes off my bike. Yet again I had to wrestle with it for quarter of an hour, letting it down completely in order to pull the valve far enough out to clamp the pump on to pump it up! Life got a bit lighter once I’d arrived at work. Two more copies of the Nigerian business scam arrived today! I must be truly blessed.
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Journal for [2002-05-30 Thu]

Journal for [2002-05-30 Thu]

Thursday, May 30, 2002

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I couldn’t resist! Standing on the corner waiting to cross Church street, right next to the “forward bicycle box” that Bicycle Victoria is oh so proud of having introduced to Melbourne’s roads. Up comes a car, but does he stop? No, the driver goes straight over the bike box and sits half across the line at the front of the intersection. Not just any car mind you, this was one of Victoria’s Police.
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Journal for [2002-05-28 Tue]

Journal for [2002-05-28 Tue]

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

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Surprise, surprise, BP hasn’t replied to my email, despite the assurance that they would do so within five working days. I’ll try a written enquiry tomorrow… A Bund dinner at Mexicali Rose. Despite the photo being solely of beer and other beverages, we did have food as well.
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Journal for [2002-05-27 Mon]

Journal for [2002-05-27 Mon]

Monday, May 27, 2002

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I made a concerted effort to get my head around some of the XML and XSLT things that I should know and mocked up a first draft for a redone photos page. It still isn’t quite all there, but PHP, XSLT and Sablotron sure beats assorted static includes and text files. Stupid Device of the Day http://www.orgasmatron.com.au/frameset.htm: poorly named toy. Miscellaneous Starwars sadnesses http://www.toysrgus.com/images-conce/chewie-family.html: http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm: http://www.deskmod.com/: http://www.dotvoid.com/:
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Journal for [2002-05-26 Sun]

Journal for [2002-05-26 Sun]

Sunday, May 26, 2002

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It was a sleepy Sunday, as a result of last night neither of us got out of bed before noon! I decided to attack my unsorted photos and finish putting them in albums, so I jumped on the bike and headed off to buy another album from the photo shop on Swan Street. It was shut, so was the other photo shop on Swan Street. Halfway home I thought I might as well visit the one on Bridge Road, he’d made a hash of my last photos, but maybe buying an album was OK.
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Sunday meandering

Sunday meandering

Saturday, May 25, 2002

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Cold, damp and foggy morning. It reminded me of Canberra winters. After briskly doing the rounds of the Richmond market, stocking up on vegetables and dodging small children and wildly erratic grandmothers with trolleys, we adjourned to a newish café to try out their breakfast. Via Ponte; not a very original name for an establishment on Bridge Road, but the staff are friendly, the fire is warm, and last weekend we found that the coffee and pasta were good.
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Journal for [2002-05-23 Thu]

Journal for [2002-05-23 Thu]

Thursday, May 23, 2002

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There’s a scary letter to the editor in The Age today. Entitled “Time to get rid of the two-wheeled killing machines,” its from a guy who has apparently written many times before. Apparently everytime there’s mention of motorcycling in the news, he has a rant and wants them off the roads completely… “for their own good.”
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Journal for [2002-05-22 Wed]

Journal for [2002-05-22 Wed]

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

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Slack me, nothing here. Finally attached the 5¼” floppy drive to an old MS-DOS machine so that I can attempt to read my old Flex-formatted disks. Not having much success, but I seem to be on the right track with anadisk. In a desperate attempt to use up the last of the vouchers for discount meals before they expire at the end of the month, Jo and I went out to dinner at Ghurkas in Carlton.
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Journal for [2002-05-21 Tue]

Journal for [2002-05-21 Tue]

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

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Well, I’ve sent off my enquiry to Mr BP asking them to explain themselves and tell me exactly which law it is that requires me to dismount from my bike before filling it… Thank you for communicating with BP Australia. Your feedback will help us to provide a more valuable, responsive, and reliable internet service in future. A customer service representative will respond within 5 working days. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on whether they will respond within 5 working days, or whether they’ll be like the last bank I wrote to who never responded.
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BP and motorbikes

BP and motorbikes

Monday, May 20, 2002

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It was wet, it was cold, it was miserable, and all I wanted to do was to fill my bike with petrol on the way home. I called in to the BP service station on Ferntree Gully road, the same as I’d done any number of times in the past. Pulled up to the pump and put the nozzle in the tank, waiting for the pump to be switched on… and waited… and waited…
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Journal for [2002-05-17 Fri]

Journal for [2002-05-17 Fri]

Friday, May 17, 2002

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A couple of interesting programs that I’d seen mention of in the past, they popped up on /. today. http://www.etherpeg.org/: EtherPeg, macintosh only. http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/: Driftnet, an opensource equivalent. And in my never-ending quest to keep everything synchronised, yet another reference to yet another distributed file system. InterMezzo.
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Journal for [2002-05-16 Thu]

Journal for [2002-05-16 Thu]

Thursday, May 16, 2002

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More suggestions about moving mail around, cos suggested isync or mailsync. http://www.gigaspaces.com/: maybe if I could actually get some JavaSpaces stuff to run on any platform, I’d be able to investigate further.
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Mailings

Mailings

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

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I discovered the wonders of fetchmail today. Must get around to setting up one IMAP server and then slurping all my older mail into it, especially stuff from the myriad of mailing lists. For slurping old mail from an IMAP store somewhere: fetchmail -a -p imap —folder folder-name —user me -m “/usr/bin/procmail -d %T” mailserver Or just use a $HOME/.fetchmailrc a bit like: poll mail.domain proto IMAP user ME mda “/usr/bin/procmail -d %T” fetchall folder folder-name Also got my digest split up and stored as individual mail items.
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Journal for [2002-05-14 Tue]

Journal for [2002-05-14 Tue]

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

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The time had come to fire up the Honda after its two weeks of rest. Unsurprisingly, the battery was so flat it could barely light the dashboard lights, so I had to play the jumper lead game. The new battery is getting further and further up the priority list… After successfully managing to get to work without getting myself killed, I took a long lunch and rode into the city to join in the protest against the new $50 “safety” charge being added to motorcycle registration as part of the state budget.
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Journal for [2002-05-13 Mon]

Journal for [2002-05-13 Mon]

Monday, May 13, 2002

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Will I, won’t I… to ride the motorbike or not… My arm is probably up to it, but only if all of Melbourne’s motorists behave themselves and nobody does anything stupid in front of me. Chances of that with slightly wet roads, not high enough. So its back on the trains and buses. Sitting in an empty shiny train, I took a picture of it, one of the stupid things that is easy to do with a digital camera.
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Journal for [2002-05-11 Sat]

Journal for [2002-05-11 Sat]

Saturday, May 11, 2002

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I finally sat down and attacked the old pile of 5¼” floppy disks this evening, albeit not very successully. Most of them are unlabelled, there’s a mix of DSDD, DSHD and even some SSSD disks in there, some were written by MS-DOS, some were written by Flex. I managed to read most of the 1.2M and some of the 360k MS-DOS floppies. Other success story of the day was getting the sound working again on wyvern, the modules that need to be loaded are, in order: soundcore, sound, ac97_codec and es1371.
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Journal for [2002-05-09 Thu]

Journal for [2002-05-09 Thu]

Thursday, May 9, 2002

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Yay! I’ve finally managed to drop off my tax papers… only a few months late. More fun on public transport this morning. I’m not surprised they can’t count tickets when the bus driver was just waving people on, regardless of whether they had a ticket or not. The one this evening had an interesting habit, all the tickets that students bought, he’d put into the machine so they were cancelled, once out on North road, the tickets that the new passengers bought were just handed to them, consequently two out of three just put them in their pockets and got a free trip.
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Journal for [2002-05-08 Wed]

Journal for [2002-05-08 Wed]

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

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Two trains and a bus and I still managed to get to work in just over an hour, the gods must have been smiling because all three of them met up with minimal waiting. Its fascinating how many people the bus driver can cram into his bus, the three people squashed between the windscreen and front door looked a little uncomfortable! I wonder how many times I’ll have to relate the story of how I managed to injure my arm?
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Journal for [2002-05-07 Tue]

Journal for [2002-05-07 Tue]

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

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A sunny day, sitting at home, my arm in a sling and not able to do anything. An odd thing happened while I was updating this — a guy climbed up a ladder and stared in at me through the window, is very odd typing while someone cleans a window 1m away. I knew there was something I was meant to do this morning; close all the windows to make life easier for the window cleaners.
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Journal for [2002-05-06 Mon]

Journal for [2002-05-06 Mon]

Monday, May 6, 2002

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A morning visit to the doctor became a bit of a saga. Not open at 8:30 when I arrived, by the time nine o’clock came about, five people were waiting, all pushed past me to be the first to the desk. One of the doctors called up sick, so we all had to wait for the other, and I hadn’t been before so there was a mighty filling out of forms before I could get near him.
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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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