Pia has nice things to say about the mirror project, but I thought I should chime in and mention that Andrew has done by far the most work so far. [btags:] [icbm: home]
Google Pizza Program
Pizza purchases at Google’s expense for hungry college students. That’s very cool. (Full disclosure: I recently attended a job interview with Google) [icbm: work]
I like screen oopsies
I’ve already posted this image today, but it was buried in a bunch of other stuff. Check it out: Funny. Especially given United’s terrible check in service.
Perth for a conference
The TOWER Asia-Pacific annual conference is later this week in Perth (Wednesday to Friday). I have a couple of free hours here and there, mostly in the evening. If there is anything interesting happening in Perth later this week, could people drop me a line and let me know? Failing that, if you have a…
The Linux Australia mirroring project
Some of you might be aware that Linux Australia recently agreed to support a trial open source mirror project for Australia. This mirror is being run by a sub-committee of Linux Australia, on hardware owned by Linux Australia. The purpose of this post is to remind people of the project, and give a quick status…
Pacifying New Orleans
To passify New Orleans they’re going to use troops just back from Iraq? I don’t know if that is accurate, but it sure sounds like a bad idea. When the Brits sent troops just back from the Falklands into Ireland, it wasn’t much fun either. [icbm: home]
Why does every man and his dog put man pages online?
So, I know that I have a few man pages online, but then again I wrote either the code they document, or some of the generation toolchain to create them, so I think that is different. Why does every man and his dog feel that he should put man pages online? It actually makes it…
A Saturday ride
This is a boring post, so I’ll keep it short. 30.81km, max speed 45.9 km per hour, 1 hour 52 minutes ride time. Around lake Tuggeranong and so forth. [icbm: home]
Hetherington, 82, created Mr Squiggle in 1959 – a decade before men without strings landed on the moon
Mr Squiggle was an ABC created children’s character. I certainly remember him… [icbm: work]
Addiction?
I’ve been feeling agitated all week, and really quite stressed out. This could be because of: The three conference papers i give next week in Perth Including the opening keynote The impending release of the product I work on The two book chapters I am meant to be writing this week The PhD work I…