kindle
Posted in science & technology, books on Oct 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
This or this could be this year’s Christmas present to me. Oh yeah.
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rack v0.3
Posted in the weather, science & technology, food on Sep 7th, 2009 No Comments »
In what must be a record of sorts, I have spent the past two evenings attempting to put together a modular wine rack. Being fluent in IKEA and handy with an allen key, how hard could it be? How hard indeed. Yes, I followed the instructions, but in my defence they weren’t very clear and […]
recalculating
Posted in science & technology on Aug 19th, 2009 5 Comments »
Tonight I went to Officeworks and bought a Garvin Nuvi GPS that was on sale, and apparently quite popular because the display model was the only one left in the store. Tom and I had one in LA to navigate the freeways, and it was quite fun to use, especially when we would miss an […]
listening material
Posted in science & technology, the arts on Mar 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Finished reading ‘The Spiritual lives of great composers” by Patrick Kavanagh. At the end of each chapter is a list of recommended listening, so now I am going to work my way through the music. Playing now is Charles Ives - an American composer I’ve not heard of before.
On a related matter, I am thinking […]
buh-bye facebook
Posted in science & technology on Jul 27th, 2008 4 Comments »
Have just deactivated my Facebook account. More than a little annoyed that you can only “deactivate” your account and not delete it entirely. That sucks. And to top it off, you must select a reason for leaving from a pre-set list, but when you do, FaceBook suggests ways to modify your account in the hopes […]
sad but true
Posted in science & technology, quotes, work & study on Apr 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.
- Douglas Adams
After all the hard work […]
follow me
Posted in science & technology on Apr 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Can one person really ‘follow’ over 10,000 others on twitter? And why would they ‘follow’ me? Strange. And on another note, how can I stop a rogue blog from scraping my content and republishing it? Very odd. And very annoying.