A walk in the San Mateo historic red woods
James, Tony and I went for a little post long haul flight walk this afternoon in some red woods. Very nice. [kml: 20150124-2]
Harcourt and Rogers Trigs
I needed to visit someone in deepest darkest North Canberra yesterday, and there was an hour to kill between that meeting and the local Linux User's Group meeting. It seemed silly to have driven all that way and to not see a couple of trigs, so I visited these two. Both these trigs were easy to get to and urban. Frankly a little boring. Harcourt trig is in what I will call a cow paddock -- it doesn't have a lot of trees happening and feels a bit like left over land. Access to the nature reserve wasn't very obvious to me from the suburban streets, but the KML file below might help others to work it out. It wasn't too bad once I'd navigated the maze of streets and weird paved areas. [kml: 20150122-1] Rogers was similar, except access was more obvious because it is in an older suburb. This is a nicer reserve than Harcourt's, with a nice peak and some walking opportunities around the base of the hill. I think I'll probably end up coming back to this one as my wife is nostalgic about growing up backing on to…
Another lunch time walk
My arm still hurts, so no gym again. Instead, another lunch time walk although this one was shorter. The skies were dramatic, but no rain unfortunately. I found GC1DEFB during this walk. This walk appears in Walking Canberra by Graeme Barrow although I found it separately. The description in the book is accurate and helpful if you happen to own a copy. [kml: 20150120]
Lunchtime geocaching
Woke up this morning with a sore left arm, which ruled out going to the gym. Instead, I decided to go for a geocaching walk at lunch time. I found these caches: GC235FM; GC56N78; GC5B9WT; GC5F6G3; and GC5F0PE. A nice walk. This walk appears in Walking Canberra by Graeme Barrow although I found it separately. The description in the book is accurate and helpful if you happen to own a copy. [kml: 20150119]
Darts Cabinet
My most recent project is a cabinet for a darts board. This is based on a project in Australian Woodsmith. I tweaked the design along the way though because I wanted something more modern and some of the rigidity elements didn't seem to be required for strength. Here's how it turned out: Which I think is a pretty good outcome to be honest. The cabinet is solid Silky Oak, with a Jarrah veneer for the door panels. The handles are hand turned from Silky Oak to match the cabinet. I already posted a YouTube video of me finishing one of the doors, but I'll include it here for those who haven't already seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguNlqiRTxw One final pic of the finished product: A big shout out to Terry and Russell who advised on various aspects of this project.
Taylor Trig
At the top of Mount Taylor lies the first trig point defeated by a group walk I've been on. Steve * 3, Erin, Michael *2, Andrew, Cadell, Maddie, Mel, Neill and Jenny all made it to the top of this one, so I'm super proud of us as a group. A nice walk and Mount Taylor clearly has potential for other walks as well, so I am sure I'll return here again. [kml: 20150118]
Another Nova spec update
I started chasing down the list of spec freeze exceptions that had been requested, and that resulted in the list of specs for Kilo being updated. That updated list is below, but I'll do a separate post with the exception requests highlighted soon as well. API Add more detailed network information to the metadata server: review 85673 (approved). Add separated policy rule for each v2.1 api: review 127863 (requested a spec exception). Add user limits to the limits API (as well as project limits): review 127094. Allow all printable characters in resource names: review 126696 (approved). Consolidate all console access APIs into one: review 141065 (approved). Expose the lock status of an instance as a queryable item: review 127139 (abandoned); review 85928 (approved). Extend api to allow specifying vnic_type: review 138808 (requested a spec exception). Implement instance tagging: review 127281 (fast tracked, approved). Implement the v2.1 API: review 126452 (fast tracked, approved). Improve the return codes for the instance lock APIs: review 135506. Microversion support: review 127127 (approved). Move policy validation to just the API layer: review 127160 (approved). Nova Server Count API Extension: review 134279 (fast tracked). Provide a policy statement on the goals of our API policies: review…
Kilo Nova deploy recommendations
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 was a cohesive story. Hopefully this essay is also useful to people who couldn't make the conference talk. Please understand that none of these are hard rules -- what I seek is for you to consider your options and make informed decisions. Its really up to you how you deploy Nova. Operating environment Consider what base OS you use for your hypervisor nodes if you're using Linux. I know that many environments have standardized on a given distribution, and that many have a preference for a long term supported release. However, Nova is at its most basic level a way of orchestrating tools packaged by your distribution via APIs. If those underlying tools are buggy, then your Nova experience will suffer as well. Sometimes we can work around known issues in older versions of our dependencies, but often those work-arounds are hard to implement (and…
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. [kml: 20150107]
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 I managed to avoid getting rained on while walking. [kml: 20150104-2]