Well, I just booked my flights to the US… The flight there is on 18 November 2005, and goes from Canberra, to Sydney, to Los Angeles, to San Francisco with Qantas. At least I get club access along the way.
What are we doing with the pets?
We own a dog and a cat. We’ve had the cat, Taffy, for a long time and he’s quite old now. The dog, Spike, on the other hand hasn’t been with us for very long. So, when we move to the US, what are we going to do with the pets? Well, the cat is…
Two weeks of being sick
And 31km travelled. Not too shabby given I couldn’t breathe and had goo coming out of my head. I feel quite unfit riding now though, so I need to put some work into getting back into things. James talks about commuting to Google, which is currently of interest to me so I’d like to hear…
Meet the life hackers
A nice online article about personal productivity, and why I feel I never get much done. [icbm: work]
The book process continues
Despite my lack of posting here in the last couple of weeks, and the death of my laptop (which I believe is traditional when you write a book), the book process continues. This is the first time I’ve written a book, and the process itself is pretty interesting. At the moment I’m looking through edits…
A first taste of Google blog reader
So, Google has released a beta of their bloglines equivalent service, and given that Liferea crashes about four times a day for me I thought I would give it a go. Login et cetera is easy, and the user interface is nice and AJAXy. It’s fairly intuitive as well, although when I was importing my…
Winchester Mystery House
When Andrew and I were in San Francisco recently we ran out of time to see the Winchester Mystery House, a mansion built by the widow of the dude who invested the Winchester rifle. She was convinced that the ghosts of Indians killed by Winchester rifles were haunting her, and modified the mansion to confuse…
100km week
At the start of last week I set myself the goal of riding 100 kilometres during the week. Despite a couple of rainy days and being busy, I made it… I’m very proud of my little self now. [icbm: home]
Frank Arrigo discovers Steve Walsh’s free wireless
Steve Walsh from CLUG is associated with the free Internet access at the Pancake Parlour in Canberra. It’s a small planet.
This looks handy, subway maps for mobile devices
Subway maps formatted for Playstation Portable.