I needed to visit someone in deepest darkest North Canberra yesterday, and there was an hour to kill between that meeting and the local Linux User’s Group meeting. It seemed silly to have driven all that way and to not see a couple of trigs, so I visited these two. Both these trigs were easy…
Author: mikal
Another lunch time walk
My arm still hurts, so no gym again. Instead, another lunch time walk although this one was shorter. The skies were dramatic, but no rain unfortunately. I found GC1DEFB during this walk. This walk appears in Walking Canberra by Graeme Barrow although I found it separately. The description in the book is accurate and helpful…
Lunchtime geocaching
Woke up this morning with a sore left arm, which ruled out going to the gym. Instead, I decided to go for a geocaching walk at lunch time. I found these caches: GC235FM; GC56N78; GC5B9WT; GC5F6G3; and GC5F0PE. A nice walk. This walk appears in Walking Canberra by Graeme Barrow although I found it separately….
Darts Cabinet
My most recent project is a cabinet for a darts board. This is based on a project in Australian Woodsmith. I tweaked the design along the way though because I wanted something more modern and some of the rigidity elements didn’t seem to be required for strength. Here’s how it turned out: Which I…
Taylor Trig
At the top of Mount Taylor lies the first trig point defeated by a group walk I’ve been on. Steve * 3, Erin, Michael *2, Andrew, Cadell, Maddie, Mel, Neill and Jenny all made it to the top of this one, so I’m super proud of us as a group. A nice walk and Mount…
Another Nova spec update
I started chasing down the list of spec freeze exceptions that had been requested, and that resulted in the list of specs for Kilo being updated. That updated list is below, but I’ll do a separate post with the exception requests highlighted soon as well. API Add more detailed network information to the metadata server:…
Kilo Nova deploy recommendations
What would a Nova developer tell a deployer to think about before their first OpenStack install? This was the question I wanted to answer for my linux.conf.au OpenStack miniconf talk, and writing this essay seemed like a reasonable way to take the bullet point list of ideas we generated and turn it into something that…
A quick walk to William Farrer’s grave
This was a Canberra Bushwalking Club walk lead by John Evans. Not very long, but I would never have found this site without John’s leadership, so much appreciated.
Wanniassa Trig
I walked up to Wanniassa Trig this afternoon. It was a nice walk, the nature park is in the middle of suburban Canberra, but you couldn’t tell that from within much of the park. The nature park also has excellently marked fire trails. There were really cool thunderstorms on the ranges as I walked, whilst…
Urambi Trig
Another day, another trig. This time with Doug, who got to play with his new radio at the top of the hill.