Posts from 2012
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Vodafone Foundation cooks for OzHarvest #charityleave
We spent the day cooking for charity. Lots of fun. I helped on chicken cacciatore and another team did amazing apple calzones. Good stuff and quite fun. My wimpy office hands scored some nice blisters…
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Early start
Ruby has me out of bed at 0530 this morning so everything moved along earlier than usual. Got to daycare and realised we had 35 minutes to kill so we stopped for smiley babycinos.
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Brilliant Tumblr: Bargain Bin Blasphemy
via bargainbinblasphemy.tumblr.com via @robbie_shepherd
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Amazon just killed the hosting business in Australia
Amazon finally launched their Sydney data centres yesterday and I really wouldn't want to be in the hosting business in Australia. Their pricing is amazing. Same price as Singapore for everything, sam…
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Happy first birthday Ruby
Ruby turns one today. Amazing how quickly it's gone. She's a beautiful little girl with a huge personality. She'll be walking and talking soon!
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Praise be to the Microsoft Natural Keyboard
I've been typing for a very long time. I was originally taught touch typing using an old-school manual typewriter in Year 3 by a nun. I spent much of my childhood dicking around with computers startin…
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Music I've been enjoying
For those of you who don't religiously observe my last.fm feed, I've discovered some awesome new music recently, from a variety of sources. And I don't mean The Wiggles. Blame Louis for that... Grimes…
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First Sydney FC home game of the season
Saturday night was the first Sydney FC home game for the season. A lovely warm afternoon and 35,000 people packing the stadium. Given the last home game last season had around 7,000, it was a very dif…
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Happy Birthday Louis
Louis is 3 today. It's gone so fast and he's grown into such a delightful boy. Beautiful day of presents then beach.
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Sad face
Yep, smashed my SGS3.
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MA BICYCLETTE ♫ - YouTube
via youtube.com
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Ahhh democracy
Spent the morning handing out for The Greens in Marrickville. The powers wielded by local government are quite incredible. According to one old Greek lady, since the Greens came in she's had to pay so…
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Best Windows error message ever
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304 I particularly like how a service pack changes the number of required characters. (via an excellent piece on interface design)
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Let's put the people smugglers out of business
Clive Palmer has a knack for making statements that get him loads of publicity. This time around he's said something really sensible. ABC reports: "If a family wishes to fly to Australia and they don'…
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Can Limited News at least be consistent please?
From the news organization that regularly rails against occupational safety rules as "red tape killing our small businesses".
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Depressing to be an Australian at the moment
via anonymouslefty.wordpress.com Our heartlessness has sunk to new lows. It makes me ashamed to be Australian. And Labor, what a bunch of political halfwits. If they think adopting the Opposition's po…
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In which our garden gets sorted out
When we first moved in, I built some garden beds with sleepers lying at the back of the garden. I also made the rather stupid decision to have one of the beds jutting out into the yard. That dramatica…
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Communiction
Learning outcome 6: using spell check.
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Ride on! Cycling comes to Google Maps in Australia
via google-au.blogspot.com.au Awesome work!
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How Sydney got non-cyclists on two wheels
Fiona Campbell, Sydney council's manager of cycling strategy, spent many years as an independent cycling campaigner before joining the administration. In the UK to share Sydney's vision at the Buildin…
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Macquarie Lighthouse
We just did the tour at Macquarie Lighthouse in Vaucluse. Brilliant view and gorgeous day for it.
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Google, you do support so badly
The problem with a company of rock stars is that nobody wants to do the boring stuff. Integration, exceptions and handling edge cases is boring and glamorous, so it just doesn't get done well. Here's…
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Impartial journalism at its finest from today's Terror
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Moving domains
I've been offered a sizable chunk of cash for my rumble.net domain, so everything's going to be moving. If you go to my site now, it should be redirecting. Once the domain transfers, those redirects w…
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When programming languages give perfect errors
Perfect error message for this Tory site. (via Ha, on the coalition's "deregulation taskforce"site there's a bit of broken code that says "invalid argument supplied". deregulationtaskforce.com.au — Be…
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Day out at Watson's Bay
One of those brilliant crisp but sunny Autumn days. Caught the bus, then ferry. Fish and chips in the park, ice cream, then back home. Lots of fun.
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Labor, what's with the kid gloves?
The Australian Labor Party needs to grow a pair and get serious here. This is a political party whose internal bastardry is legendary, yet they can't seem to use the same kind of RealPolitik tactics o…
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Who are Doctors for the Family? Let's crowdsource it!
Last Sunday, Mother's Day no less, an organisation calling itself Doctors for the Family had their submission to the Senate Committee on Marriage Equality published with all kinds of unsubstantiated c…
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I'm a convert to recruitment screen questions
I'm currently recruiting for a position in my team and the company uses one of those hideous Web 1.0 HR systems. One of its features is to set screening questions that you can use to rule out candidat…
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Driving for data nerds
For our shiny new car, I bought a device that allows you to read data from the car's internal data bus over Bluetooth to my phone. $21 from Hong Kong. You plug the thing in and pair it with your phone…
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Do English Premier League wages translate into points?
Click through to view in Tableau Public Click through to see in Tableau PublicRandom thing inspired by this discussion on Quora which references this blog post which has a table showing wages vs Leagu…
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Why you don't put any old random JavaScript on your site
Ouch. I presume this was from malware JavaScript, but it could be their server was pwned. Bad guys these days make no visible change for ordinary visitors, but for crawlers and then when they get into…
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On the anatomy of thrift
This beautiful series of instructional web videos teaches how to butcher pigs in a relaxed and fun hipster style. These guys would undoubtedly ride fixies and use Macs. Or at least their customers wou…
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Nice work Google
For the record, those devices are: Acer Iconia A500 Android tablet Samsung Galaxy SII HTC Desire Logitech Revue (Google TV) You'd think they could make it work on at last one of them if they're gonna…
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Holiday beard begone
As mentioned, I start my new job at Vodafone tomorrow. To make the morning a bit easier, I shaved off my holiday beard tonight. Here's the before/after shots.
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Great holiday
We just arrived home from a fantastic holiday in Culburra just North of Jervis Bay. We had Aaron great time, in spite of the weather. Tomorrow I start my new job at Vodafone. Quite looking forward to…
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Best Engrish ever
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My new bike: Breezer Villager
via flyingfurniture.com.au I bought a new bike on Saturday. I've wanted something with a hub dynamo for a long time, and finally found one in my price range and in a style I like. It's a gorgeous piec…
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Chinese New Year MeatUp
Amazing tasting menu at Bar H in Surry Hills. The pork buns were amazing and apparently on the regular menu.
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My next Linux install will be Debian
But, god the delight of hunkering down in the Debian commune again. I love how relentless and unsullied they are, even by Ubuntu. via oblomovka.com Danny O'Brien on moving from Mac to Debian. I'll als…
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Easter? Seriously?
It's 4th January.