Category Archives: Personal

Example spanners for today

Ridiculous, amusing, inconvenient and even plain worrying things tend to happen in the lead-up to Important Events For Which You Have Planned. Sometimes a certain amount of irony is involved, sometimes it’s Murphy’s law.
I have selected four examples of these sorts of events from today. There were many more, of course, but here are four:

Pia goes to […]

Happiness is a warm cache

If you haven’t celebrated New Year’s in Sydney, you haven’t celebrated New Year’s… and remember, kids, 2008 is the year of Linux on the des — kidding! Happy new year!
Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.

A response to the cacophony

There’s a layer of truth to some of what Murray has said, but his shockingly exaggerated, hateful message is not intended to resolve or heal. Murray does not accept or credit my commitment or contributions to the project, and he has sought to denigrate, disenfranchise and discredit me consistently over the years… though this is […]

Love in a time of Facebook

… updated her profile. She is now looking for friendship and networking.
… went from being “single” to “in a relationship”.

If I hadn’t already known offline, let alone been waiting for it to blossom in excruciating pain for months, this would have been one of those “$TECHNOLOGY is changing the way we view the world” posts.
Instead, here […]

apt-get install vmware-player

What-hey! That’s right, thanks to the efforts of Ubuntu All-Stars such as Michael Vogt and Adam Conrad, and VMware sharpshooters like Ben Gertzfield, you can suck down some of that VMware Player sweetness for your Ubuntu 6.06 LTS system right now.
No tarballs, no compiling kernel modules, no banging rocks together.
It’s as easy as: sudo apt-get install vmware-player
I SHIT […]

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