Blog
-
Kraftwerk
I saw Kraftwerk play at the Brixton Academy on Saturday night. It was a midnight show and they played for about two hours. Wow! Absolutely amazing. This is a band I've wanted to see for many many year…
-
Ljubuljana and cross-country skiing
I'm sitting in my hotel room nursing a beer (they stop selling take away beers at 9pm, so it's a minibar one that will have to be replaced before the maid gets here and counts them) and revelling in a…
-
More spam Dada poetry
This one made the mistake of mentioning the word "Viagra", which means a quick trip to the junk bin. However, the attempt to get around the Bayesian filters is amusing. urban centres with stable and p…
-
Psychisation
Psychisation n - the sudden realisation that the person with whom you are conversing is a bunny-boiling psycho.
-
Put it back in the ground!
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exchausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban The great news is that ERA have abandoned the Jabiluka mine in possibly the most i…
-
Some new photos
My parents have been in town, though they're heading back to Sydney tonight. We've been out and about a lot, including a week in France and a weekend in Norfolk. This weekend we spent in London. Yeste…
-
Spammers discover Dada poetry
My good friend, Furlough S. Megabytes, just sent me a wonderfully bizarre poetry with Subject: chlorates aweless bescrape chamois. This was quickly followed by my old mate Grudging T. Creamiest with S…
-
The little red button
I'm sitting in an Internet cafe in Moscow around the corner from Nate and Jen's flat. There's a little red button next to the monitor. If I press it, a waiter comes out and will refill my beer. Moscow…
-
The Psychedelicatessen
What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me is an amazing radio play done by double-J, an Australian youth radio station, in 1978. It's amazing stuff. Check it out here.
-
Weekend in Glasgow
I had some frequent flyer points that were about to expire, so we went to Glasgow for the weekend. We had a very nice time in lovely weather, actually warmer than London. The Scottish Riviera? Anyway,…
-
Weekend in Norfolk
My folks are in town so we bundled into a hire car early on Saturday morning and headed to Norfolk for the weekend. We finally joined the National Trust and visited a couple of great historic houses,…
-
When will Carr make his move?
Recently there's been speculation about Bob Carr making the move to Federal politics in Australia. But when will he make his move? He'll let Crean stumble through the next election, handing another vi…
-
Audio Sync and DXR3 Cards FAQ
Version 1.1 4th November, 2002 Getting audio in sync with the dxr3 card can difficult. The problem is that the video decoding can take a different amount of time than outputting the audio. To start wi…
-
Beer is coming along
Well if you've been following this, I've been brewing some beer recently. I now have something like 60 litres of beer conditioning, and another 20 litres fermenting at the moment. The first two batche…
-
Bread!
I've long harboured an interest in breadmaking. I eat a lot of the stuff and really appreciate the good stuff. When an old flatmate had a bread maker, I was very very happy. I'd always vaguely conside…
-
Can you find something more brain damaged?
I'm thinking of getting a driving licence, so I check out this site from the Automobile Association. And they have this little gem of idiocy: Get a £24 discount when you sign up for lessons online. Cl…
-
Converting to Maildir
Well I've finally decided to take the plunge. I'm going to convert to Maildir for my mailboxes tonight. The impetus has been Squirrelmail, which Holly uses for her email. It needs an IMAP server and I…
-
Email down
By the time we arrived in Oz, my computer seemed to have lost contact with the outside world. The ADSL it's on might have crashed, but who knows. Major pain in the arse. If you're in Sydney, you can c…
-
Fantomas playing the Astoria
This is what I love about London: any band that's doing any sort of tour ends up playing a gig here. So in May, Fantomas are playing at the Astoria. Yay! I've wanted to see a Mike Patton band for year…
-
Franz Ferdinand
I'd heard about Franz Ferdinand before, but hadn't heard the music. So I got hold of the album and it's excellent! Kinda New Wave in a way, a bit Stranglers or Clash even. Energetic, witty, intelligen…