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.
The Martian
I bought this book because of a review I saw online recently, and I have to say I loved it. Its interesting, humorous, and a generally fun read with a story line that I haven’t seen before. Its refreshing to encounter a new author who has some genuinely new ideas to explore. I highly recommend…
Playing with alternate cameras: the GoPro Hero 3
I wasn’t happy with the behaviour of the kit lens on my Canon 650d when I shot the Christmas bottle stopper videos. I therefore decided to try out a few other cameras I had lying around before just going and buying a better lens for my Canon SLR. First off, I gave a GoPro Hero…
A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig
This one was a super quick walk on the way to the hardware store. As well as the trig point, there was a defunct radio repeater at the top of the hill — I believe this one was for the old analog Police radio network.
A walk around Mount Stranger
This is a walk around another hill a short drive from my house. The track was less well defined this time, so more bush bashing. There were these star pickets with white caps along the way which marked a join between two fire trails — I think they indicate where fire trucks should go if…
madebymikal.com
I’ve been doing a lot more wood work recently, and I decided I wanted to write that up somewhere. Instead of posting it here, I also wanted to play with wordpress as an alternative hosting solution. The wood working is therefore being blogged on a new site, madebymikal.com. So far I’ve made a Thien Baffle…
Walk up Tuggeranong Hill
I’ve had a hankering to do a bush walk for an while, and so I spent some time yesterday walking up Tuggeranong Hill. This was a really nice walk — the access road for the ACTEW substation provides parking with shade from trees, and its very very close to my house. The entrance to the…