On the suggestion of Sven from the Gimp project I have added offset display to the features of pnginfo. It’s bundled in the 0.3 release. A historical note from November 2020: this code is quite old, but still actively used. I have therefore converted the old subversion repository to git and it is hosted at…
Tipping point: windscreen washers
Ian comments on being accosted by a window washer in the CBD, and therefore forces my hand in commenting on this part of my current reading book, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. In the section in cleaning up crime in New York during the early 1990’s, I was interested to note that one of…
No strings attached
It’s interesting to know that the phrase “no strings attached” is a tailoring term which denotes no defects in the cloth. [tags:] [icbm: home]
Curse my lack of facial hair
I’ll never win the beard competition now… [tags: beard] [icbm: work]
Peter Vogel’s latest gig
Peter Vogel is a cool Australian. He worked on the team which came up with the first commercial sampler. He hangs out on the OzTiVo list. Now he’s planning on making commercial TV’s business model a thing of the past. Frankly, I don’t watch commercial TV any more because of the adverts, so I like…
Silent raving
I know a couple of people who I reckon would go to a silent rave, and frankly I’ve never been to a rave, but I’d go just to see what it looks like. Do they let graying 27 year old parents of two with multiple mortgages into these things? Oh, and how do they get…
Church fund raisers
Selling ring tones for popular hymns is such and obvious fund raiser that I’m a little upset that I didn’t think of it. [tags:] [icbm: work]
Photo tour of the abandoned Russian embassy in Thailand
Via Boing Boing. A really quite interesting tour of an abandoned Russian embassy. Makes you wonder what they needed to remove from all the walls. Was it the Russians who did the removing, or the Americans? [tags: russian embassy] [icbm: work]
Fined for speeding in the ACT recently?
Did you check it was your car? [tags: speeding fine computer error] [icbm: home]
Electric shadows has a RSS feed!
I’m impressed that I’ve found a cinema in Canberra with an RSS feed for the movies they’re currently showing. That’s cool. [tags: movies cinema canberra] [icbm: home]