It’s interesting to know that the phrase “no strings attached” is a tailoring term which denotes no defects in the cloth. [tags:] [icbm: home]
Author: mikal
Curse my lack of facial hair
I’ll never win the beard competition now… [tags: beard] [icbm: work]
Peter Vogel’s latest gig
Peter Vogel is a cool Australian. He worked on the team which came up with the first commercial sampler. He hangs out on the OzTiVo list. Now he’s planning on making commercial TV’s business model a thing of the past. Frankly, I don’t watch commercial TV any more because of the adverts, so I like…
Silent raving
I know a couple of people who I reckon would go to a silent rave, and frankly I’ve never been to a rave, but I’d go just to see what it looks like. Do they let graying 27 year old parents of two with multiple mortgages into these things? Oh, and how do they get…
Church fund raisers
Selling ring tones for popular hymns is such and obvious fund raiser that I’m a little upset that I didn’t think of it. [tags:] [icbm: work]
Photo tour of the abandoned Russian embassy in Thailand
Via Boing Boing. A really quite interesting tour of an abandoned Russian embassy. Makes you wonder what they needed to remove from all the walls. Was it the Russians who did the removing, or the Americans? [tags: russian embassy] [icbm: work]
Fined for speeding in the ACT recently?
Did you check it was your car? [tags: speeding fine computer error] [icbm: home]
Electric shadows has a RSS feed!
I’m impressed that I’ve found a cinema in Canberra with an RSS feed for the movies they’re currently showing. That’s cool. [tags: movies cinema canberra] [icbm: home]
Linux drivers for the Earthmate USB GPS
Are here in case I need them again… [tags: gps earthmate linux] [icbm: home]
ICM532 webcam support for Linux
An original project was superseded by another project which had some interesting links to information on the camera. Compare and contrast with a NetBSD driver for the same camera. This specification might also come in handy. (This ICM532 is one of the cameras I’m playing with at University at the moment) [tags: webcam linux icm532]…