Content here is by Michael Still, mikal@stillhq.com.
This is the first Bill Bryson book I’ve read, and I have to say I enjoyed it. Bill is hilarious and infuriating at the same time, which surprisingly to me makes for a very entertaining combination. I’m sure he’s not telling the full story in this book — its just not possible for someone so…
The OpenStack community has been well represented at linux.conf.au over the last few years, which I think is reflective of both the growing level of interest in OpenStack in the general Linux community, as well as the fact that OpenStack is one of the largest Python projects around these days. linux.conf.au is one of the…
I’m not really sure why it took me so long to write this set of walks up — I think I just got lost in preparations for the most recent OpenStack summit and simply forgot. That said, here they are… Tony, Steven and I mounted an expedition to Mount Franklin, which is one of the…
I loved this book. The way the language works takes a little while to work out, but then blends into the background. The ideas here are new and interesting and I look forward to other work of Ann’s. Very impressed with this book. Title: Ancillary Justice Author: Ann Leckie Genre: Fiction Publisher: Orbit Books Release…
I’ve recently become involved in a new computer programming club at my kids’ school. The club runs on Friday afternoons after school and is still very new so we’re still working through exactly what it will look like long term. These are my thoughts on the content from this first session. The point of this…
The cubs at my local scout group are interested in walking to a trig, but have some interesting constraints around mobility for a couple of their members. I therefore offered to re-walk Tuggeranong Trig in Oxley with an eye out for terrain. I think this walk would be very doable for cubs — its 650…
Paul and I set off to see two trigs today. One Tree is on the ACT border and is part of the centenary trail. Painter is a suburban trig in Belconnen. Much fun was had, I hope I didn’t make Paul too late for the wedding he had to go to.
I’ve had a lot of things to think about this week, so I’ve gone on a few walks. I found some geocaches along the way, but even better I think my head is a bit more sorted out now.
Prompted largely by a not very detailed entry in a book, a bunch of friends and I went to explore Bendora Arboretum. The arboretum was planted in the 1940’s as scientific experiments exploring what soft woods would grow well in our climate — this was prompted by the large amount of wood Australia was importing…
What do you do when you accidentally engaged a troll on twitter? You go for a walk of course. I didn’t realize there had been a flash flood in Canberra in 1971 that killed seven people, probably because I wasn’t born then. However, when I ask people who were around then, they don’t remember without…