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A bit of this, a bit of that

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2001

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More predictable Melbourne drivers. Today it was raining in the morning, therefore someone had driven into someone else on the Monash freeway, therefore traffic was banked up from Clayton back to Toorak. A day of electronic bill paying… and a little gentle stirring of large organizations. After trying to pay my Citipower account via the online B-Pay system and being told that the company didn’t allow credit card payments, I can then call a toll free number and pay with my credit card.

MLP

Monday, Sep 24, 2001

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http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millennium/mgoals.html: Millenium Microsoft Research’s Goals for future operating systems. Interesting thoughts, too bad that what comes out of the product department seems to be somewhat diluted by the marketing department.

Bah, idiots in tin boxes

Sunday, Sep 23, 2001

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Today we have another shining example of Melbourne’s finest drivers. Silver Holden Commodore, (Vic. ###-###), at first I wondered what he was doing, attempting to drag me off from the lights on Dandenong road. Then I realised as he swerved in at me: the left-turn only lane didn’t apply to him, he could have just slowed and gone in behind me, but it was more important for him to ram the motorbike out of the way so he could go straight ahead and on down Dandenong road at 110 ㎞/h in the 80 ㎞/h zone.

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Saturday, Sep 22, 2001

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Marko and Lesley, after a day at Melbourne Show

Webbage

Friday, Sep 21, 2001

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More success in my never-ending battle with PSGML, SGML and Xemacs. I’ve finally discovered how to set sgml-parent-document in order to correctly edit SGML fragments from within Xemacs. Mayhem in the office all day, the combination of air-conditioning installation, broken security alarms, and just general Friday-ness resulted in more than usual levels of interruption.

MLP

Thursday, Sep 20, 2001

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http://memepool.com/: Interesting collection of information

Life, and work

Monday, Sep 17, 2001

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Interesting postcard arrived in the mail today from Joey. The New York city skyline… that’ll need adjusting on the next batch of cards. [3D Flight over Switzerland Using an ActiveX plugin, so it only works under Windows IE at the moment. Finally got to see Moulin Rouge this evening, lots of sound and light and colour, and I loved the songs made of other song fragments. An audience of seven, three couples and me, and one of the couples talked incessantly the whole way through!

Success x 2

Sunday, Sep 16, 2001

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Two successes. A good day. They’re not even in the same league though. First, Joey called from Vermont and we spent half an hour on the phone. Despite all, she’s having a great time, saw some whales near Cape Cod and is now in the forests, where she’s seen a skunk and is now on the lookout for mooses. Second, with a little fiddling and help from http://my.gnus.org, I’ve got both IMAP and HTTP traffic out of wyvern to be tunneled via SSL.

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Sunday, Sep 9, 2001

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Marko and Lesley

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Sunday, Sep 9, 2001

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Marko and Lesley

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Sunday, Sep 9, 2001

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Lesley and the roast

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Saturday, Sep 8, 2001

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Women in red at Mel's party

Power

Saturday, Sep 8, 2001

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Sat down to try and get my home PC — wyvern — to use Linux kernel 2.4 and was halfway through fiddling about when the power supply just upped and died. I guess that means I won’t be getting that going anytime soon. MLP http://www.garmin.com/: The eTrek was mentioned as being a useful GPS to own.

MLP — Bookmarks for [2001-09-06 Thu]

Thursday, Sep 6, 2001

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Music David Bridie The Dave Graney Show Hugh Cornwell, ex. Strangler Kraftwerk

Open plan pain

Thursday, Sep 6, 2001

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Nearly impossible to get anything done this morning. The open plan area is getting more and more noisy. MLP http://www.davidbridie.com.au/: David Bridie http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com/: The Dave Graney Show http://www.hughcornwall.com/: Hugh Cornwell, ex Strangler http://www.kraftwerk.com/: Kraftwerk

Pothole news

Wednesday, Sep 5, 2001

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A miracle! The pothole on Gardiner road near the Nott has been filled in. That pothole has been a feature of my trip to Monash for the last five years, I can remember being driven through it on my way to a job interview here in April 1996!

TLA and ETLA

Tuesday, Sep 4, 2001

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I wonder how many more ETLAs I can come up with this week for titles of the day’s entry? http://www.snmplink.org/: http://www.winsnmp.org/: http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/: Ugly colour scheme, but lots of information on SNMP for the Public Community. Predominantely Windows and NetWare. Decided to log all the odds and sodds regarding moving into the new flat. Work Another stunnel problem with the laptop. After booting it up in a standalone configuration and then plugging it in, I had to issue a net stop stunnel, net start stunnel in order to make it connect.

Docbook

Monday, Sep 3, 2001

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Still digging around trying to find out how to author documents in Docbook format, then export them as HTML with a common look and feel. So far the DSSSL and XSL stuff looks to have a steep learning curve! SGML for NT :: A brief tutorial how to set up a free SGML editing and publishing system for Windows NT. The Debian SGML/XML Howto: http://www.docbook.org/: The main repository of Docbook material

Lease day

Friday, Aug 31, 2001

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More MRTG mods, after queries from the Faculty of Law, added the network traffic from ITS-MENZ3 to the things that are monitored.

Thor

Thursday, Aug 30, 2001

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http://www.cryptoapps.com/: More interesting stuff, predominately Cryptographic Appliances as the name implies. A series of articles from IBM’s developerworks on redesigning the Gentoo web site using XML and XSLT. In four parts [1] [2] [3] and [4]. Vet updates to South Africa are working again, now that I’ve created the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 files for the cruxnds account. Stunnel: Just had stunnel crash and sit there, I had to manually issue a net stop stunnel then net start stunnel to get it going again.

Work

Wednesday, Aug 29, 2001

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The experimental stunnel to the proxies takes a further step, we now have it running on one of the real proxy machines. CJW to ask the security group to test. Another afternoon with me holding the hot-line phone, another day where nobody calls it, preferring to pick random names and numbers out of the air. [http://www.mrtg.org/] Updated the main server status page and MFS07 details that had changed.

Plumber

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2001

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“Ross the plumber” called this morning. I called him back and went through the following conversation: I was there six months ago wasn’t I? No, it was actually April last year. Aren’t you on the ground floor on the corner near the garage? No, I’m on the first floor. I’ll have to arrange a time to come and take a look at the place. A plumber came and looked at the place and took a report back about a fortnight ago.

Bloggy stuff

Monday, Aug 27, 2001

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I think I’ve got the docs pages to use a two column style that nicely mimics the three column one of the blog. It looks fine in Mozilla, IE6 beta is problematic, the style sheet I’ve based it on has an ugly hack to get around bugs in IE5.5, maybe they’ve been fixed in 6… Using srvany.exe I’ve got stunnel.exe running as a service on Win2k. Dodgy real-estate agent practices Surprise surprise — 16:58 and the real-estate agent calls up.

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Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia

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Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia

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Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia

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Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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Rainforest, Lorne, Australia

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Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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King Parrot on the balcony at Lorne

Waterfalls

Sunday, Aug 26, 2001

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Carried my camera around with me all weekend since I’m trying to finish the roll of film, if it wasn’t so expensive to develop APS I’d probably just get the half roll done. While I was trying to take a photo this morning of a King parrot that came to eat on the window sill I found that the battery is flat. They don’t seem to last long, and at $19 a time, certainly add to the costs of the pictures.

Mostly Security

Friday, Aug 24, 2001

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After much scratching of head and pulling of hair, I think I’ve got blogmax mostly working using a 3 column style sheet. Ugliness still abounds, but with changes to the elisp code, the templates, and the stylesheets, I think I’m getting there. Work, stunnel To avoid some of the problems with the current web proxy configuration there’s a proposal to tunnel the HTTP traffic from client machines to the proxy servers.

Real Estate

Thursday, Aug 23, 2001

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A simple matter really, just notify the Real Estate agent that I’ll be moving out in 28 days… Call agent, the phone is engaged. Half an hour later, call agent, leave voice mail message an hour later, get a call from a different agent “didn’t you remember that Kirsty is no longer your agent.” (Oops, obviously I didn’t). Get the fax number to send in the notification. Send the fax, it fails, either I wrote down the wrong number or Colleen gave me it wrong.

The Blog Exists

Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001

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Bugs Well well well… A quick email exchange with the author of the package and it seems that I’ve found a bug that causes blogmax to fail in Windoze Xemacs 21.4. A new version has been provided and it now seems to work. Now its just up to me to see whether I can make it work for me. Weather I’m not sure what the coefficient of friction between hail-stones, a wet road, and worn motorbike tyres is, but I think I came very close to finding out on the way to work this morning.

MLP

Tuesday, Aug 21, 2001

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http://dotgnu.org/: The DotGNU Project: DotGNU will be a complete replacement for the .NET strategy - it will not be a Free Software implementation of .NET. http://glish.com/: Some very stylish material, including a lot on CSS and styles.

A simple task….

Monday, Aug 20, 2001

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I checked out the photos that I picked up yesterday with a view to putting them here on the site. Well, there’s some good news and some bad news…. Good news is that most of them scanned OK; bad news is that instead of one roll of 25 and three rolls of 40 prints I’ve got one roll of 25, two copies of 39 of one roll, all 40 of the next, and only 36 of the last roll.

Nobody Home

Saturday, Aug 18, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

Jo telephoned to query how long it is likely to take to process our application and we got told the following: The landlord wasn’t expecting applications so soon as he didn’t expect the premises to be repainted so quickly. Since we’ve asked to move in on the 8th of September, which is “a fair delay,” the application must be referred to the landlord. The landlord is interstate and the application can’t be processed until he returns.

Why write about work?

Friday, Aug 17, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

Brrrr! Seven degrees and it feels like its going to snow. Work work work… Our NDS is growing and slowing, we’re using new features on top of old hardware, more features on top of old software. The eDirectory Workstation objects keep a history of users who login to them, in a student environment this grows and grows. Mr JRB’s SETNAME is going into the weekly cleanup, with a: SETNAME * /o=Workstation /a=WM:User_History /d /x

Bikes 'n Houses

Thursday, Aug 16, 2001

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Housing Now this could be a bizarre house moving experience, potentially the world’s shortest. Joey and I went to look at flat number two, next door, and decided that it looks pretty good. Just like number one — only twice as big — and not twice as expensive! Cycling Norky bike was ready for collection from the shop, Freedom Machine, revitalised after its sojourn in foreign places. UK and France: Six weeks riding around the UK and France.

Network not work

Wednesday, Aug 15, 2001

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Five o’clock in the evening, just about to leave and there’s a phone call; ITS-CAUL1 has stopped responding on one of its interfaces and the switch is reporting more errors on that port than for most other ports at the Uni. A little digging by myself and Biggles and mysteriously it appears that the switch has been changed from 100M full duplex to autoconfigure, which never does.

Well Spotted!

Wednesday, Aug 15, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

In possibly the easiest house-finding experience of the century, Jo came home early to see a “to let” sign hanging on the balcony of the flat next door to mine! Not expecting it to be big enough she rang the agents and found out that it has two bedrooms, and we can inspect it tomorrow at 9 am.

Novell, Novell….

Thursday, Aug 9, 2001

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Spent the day at a Novell OneNet presentation. A bit about NetWare 6, a bit about all its components and a fascinating bit about network security and protocol analysis.

Return to Monash

Wednesday, Aug 8, 2001

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Oh no! Back at work at last. Several thousand emails to sort through, fourteen voicemail messages. Please enter your security code. Bip Bip Bip Bip. You have fourteen new messages, press one for new message. Bip That message has been stored for too long and been deleted, you have thirteen new messages, press one for new message. Bip That message has been stored for too long and been deleted, you have twelve new messages, press one for new message… Bip You have no new messages.

Reading

Saturday, Aug 4, 2001

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End of my trip, nothing much to do but wander around the shops half-heartedly thinking about duty free toys to use up the last of the spending money. MD and MP3 players here and there, but none caught my eye as being just right. The Polar S710 heart rate monitor looks pretty good, but while it supposedly exists, none of the shops have seen one, one of the bike shop staff confessed to me that he doesn’t believe that any have been brought into the UK yet.

author portrait — ajft looking stylish and black

…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.

…The ISP

Hosted by @cos

…The Grue