The Mont 24 hour race (a mountain biking event in Canberra) is coming up. I’m thinking about coming along to take some pictures… Hopefully they’ll be as nice as this one taken by Big Headed Simon. [icbm: home]
75 kilometres last week
It would have been more, except I was away on the weekend. I haven’t gone riding yet this week — it’s been too wet. [icbm: home]
ImageMagick bug?
Subject: imagemagick: If the trailing character of a montage label option is a percent sign, the output image is erroneous Package: imagemagick Version: 6:6.2.3.6-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Executing this command line: montage -geometry +10+10 -tile 2 -label “-sepia-tone 15%%” \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20a.jpg -label “-sepia-tone 35%%” \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20b.jpg -label…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 4: Other ImageMagick Tools
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these chapter summaries here, and the reason for that is that I’ve been busy writing chapters, attending conferences, caring for a sick wife, and stuff like that. The book is still pretty much on track (I’m currently running about a week behind on the chapter deadlines,…
A 50km week
I went about 50km this last week… I can only say about because my bike computer just reset itself while I was down at the shops — losing the odometer along the way (it said about 190km). Oh well. All of that riding was errands and travel to and from uni, with only one 13km…
Well, that’s Google blog search live then
So, Google just launched their blog search tool. [icbm: dcs]
Comparison shopping for books
This was on Boing Boing a while ago, but I only just caught up with the post… SMS and ISBN to an Australian phone number, and get back a bunch of comparative prices. I just gave it a go, and it just works. Now, that’s cool. [icbm: work]
Mirroring the Linux Update podcast
I’m glad James appreciates the mirror. Perhaps it’s worth using the mirrors in the XML feeds for the podcast? [icbm: home]
We’re getting there
So, we’re still pulling stuff, although a bit of that has been deciding what to pull… [icbm: home]
Back from Perth
The Vines resort (where the Jonny Walker Classic is played) is nice, if you like early 1990 architecture, and golf. Just don’t try to have a shower in your unit, as the hot water system is the size of a thimble. Hire cars are good, because they take you away from the Vines. Freemantle and…