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Upcoming Speaking Gigs
It’s that crazy time of year again, the one where I run around like a lunatic llama preparing slide decks and sample code. There’s a bit of added spice in the form of Intergen Dynamics Day, and a trip to the USA there too. Good times! Here’s what’s on the cards: August 10: Intergen Dynamics [...]
Switching to Mac
I can’t remember how old I was when I used my first IBM PC clone. If I recall, it was a ‘luggable’ Panasonic with an orange plasma CGA screen. I played an ancient version of Ghostbusters, and Microsoft Flight Simulator, perhaps version 1 or 2. My whole world seemed to involve hacking config.sys and autoexec.bat [...]
ESky Honey Bee King 2
Look what the tooth fairy delivered today: I’ve haven’t even written a proper review for the last one yet, but I’ve unfortunately been entirely bitten by the bug. This new helicopter is much more advanced than the Lama, with a belt-driven tail rotor, and full CCPM head control. Truthfully I’ve battled with the Lama and [...]
Improve Your Life
Like so many things I read, I find cognitive therapy to be basically codified common sense. The same thing applies to project management, money management, negotiation, ad infinitum. The market for books on the subjects makes me reconsider if these things are in face common sense. Still, I find a lot of excellent stuff when [...]
Football Glory
Despite being a fat bastard and not really playing a lot of sport, I’ve always had a competitive sporting streak. I played football (soccer) briefly in secondary school, my reasoning being that it was less violent than rugby, and had fewer flying projectiles than field hockey or cricket. So it was that I jumped at [...]
Out of Service
There won’t be any new posts for a week or so, because I’m going on holiday to here. 10 points to the first person who can identify the location without zooming out (it doesn’t count if I’ve told you personally).
Serendipitous Frogs
So the French football team pull another one out of the bag, ousting the Portugese and taking France through to their second World Cup final. As much as football is a team game, France really has to thank the brilliant Zinedine Zidane for coming back from retirement and taking them this far. As a New [...]
Liquid Crystals
Well, I’ve finally taken the HD plunge, via a new Panasonic LCD panel (only link I could find, but the NZ version doesn’t have an integrated digital tuner). This thing is pretty damn sexy. 26 inches is pretty small by TV standards these days, but it is more than adequate for our small lounge. The [...]
Yet Another Cancer-Related Blog Post
After getting over the initial shock when my father was diagnosed with a choroidal melanoma on Friday, my thoughts turned to blogging. Specifically an intention not to add to the thousands of “my father/mother/brother has cancer” posts. What’s the point? If you have no experience of such an event, the post is largely redundant – [...]
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