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Month and a bit, a week ago, redux

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
  • A relaxing weekend in Mandurah
  • Planning an interstate trip
  • Wrangling FileMaker, MySQL, PHP, qpopper and postfix.
  • Bilby getting much more talkative. Many more words and signs (miming juicing an orange to indicate she wanted OJ!) Long involved soliloquies, if only I could understand what she was actually saying…
  • Colds all round :( Mounds of tissues
  • Car serviced.
  • Got a call from my ISP claiming I was DoSing someone. Oops :) (No, it was not a virus)
  • Most excellent engagement party with many good friends.
  • Baked a Jaffa Marble Cake and a vegan Apple and Almond cake (I was out of walnuts).
  • Got a ladder for my birthday. Used it to clean the gutters.
  • Got many birthday wishes from people, thankyou, it meant a lot.
  • Had a close friend ring up on my birthday to ask me how to send a break from telnet. This was good for the amusement value of him forgetting my birthday at least.
  • Watered trace elements into the plants.
  • Saw Da Vinci’s machines. Had forgotten how much of it was weapons research.
  • Indian buffet.
  • Saw Dr. Jones.
  • Read Moondust.

The Week, redux

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
  • Software goes live. Nobody dies. Yay!
  • MacGeeks at Agni. Mmm.. Curry.
  • iPhone SDK amongst other things
  • More busage plus walking. More weight loss.
  • Lay my hands on an OLPC XO
  • Finish Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe
  • Mum’s birthday, book club.
  • Music night, we have a band (of sorts :). Violin, guitar, and whatever else Bilby and Puggle pick up.
  • Take Bilby shopping for the first time although she’s too tired to enjoy it.
  • Bilby takes a fall :( She seems less fazed by it than I am.
  • Jamie’s Sausages and 1kg of cherry tomatoes, followed by another mulberry pie thanks to our tree. Now if only the mango tree was as productive!
  • Looking forward to the dentist on Monday :(

Google t-shirts

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Spotted in the past few days:”I have root @ Google” ”I google myself regularly” 

The week, redux

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
  • An extra 50 minutes of walking as a result of getting off the bus at earlier stops. Yay for exercise!
  • MacGeeks dinner at Tsunami
  • Sorry day, and Rudd further restoring my pride in being Australian.
  • Valentines day (ignored, with apologies to greeting card, flower and chocolate companies)
  • A summons to the GP as a result of the cholesterol test.
  • Watching Bilby walk around the house without assistance, even carrying things when she’s asked to tidy up after Puggle :)
  • Pushing the swing for Bilby and Puggle and friends. Need to find some way to bolt it to the ground better, they’re all getting heavier.
  • Taming of the Puggle (well, more attempts thereof)
  • Dinner with the workmates (anchovies, anchovy oil and caramelised onion makes a great pizza if you like anchovies).
  • Crossing minor achievable tasks off the list (dug up the fig for a refund, updated car rego and parking stickers)
  • Dinner with Skip

Unbridled productivity

Thursday, December 27th, 2007
  • Cleared some tree bits off the roof
  • Upgraded the network so St. Isidore now has to bless packets 10 times faster :)
  • Kept Puggle and Bilby occupied
  • Enjoyed the cool breeze
  • Scanned some of the paper mountain

Left to do today

  • Fix reticulation
  • Dig more trampoline hole
  • Minor shopping

The weekend

Monday, August 13th, 2007
  • Work bits
  • The all important drinks.
  • Nachos
  • Movies
  • Printer unbreaking
  • Grocery shopping
  • Outlook
  • Poker (Lost. Gotta work on that know when to hold ‘em/fold ‘em thing)
  • Sleep
  • Going home
  • Random office tidyup
  • Router configuration
  • Boy time
  • Girl time
  • Dinner

Al Gore, a man close to my heart

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

I’ve got the piles of junk, now all I need is the 3×30″ Cinema Displays. Here’s the JoyOfTech take on it.

Unshelved

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

I figure that a few of you out there might be interested in Unshelved, a comic about librarians. Or in this case, librarians and computers.

One for the wii-nies

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

An amusing comic from JoyOfTech for all the wii fans out there.

Wake up more easily

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Since I know some avid readers of this blog have purchased SleepTracker watches to wake up more easily, and there was some discussion of using the iSight built into Power/MacBooks to do the same, I just discovered Dream Recorder on VersionTracker. Not sure how it handles two people in the same bed though, I guess you just have to aim the camera carefully.

Let me know if it works (or broadcasts pictures of your bedroom over the internet :)

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