Some blog entries are easy to write. Not this one. Meebles is no more. In the end, it was peaceful, but his last days must have been hell. At least he had chicken (and lots of it) last night. I first met Meebles in early 1998 when I was looking for a companion to Greebo….
Category: Life, the universe, and everything…
Time for something new
As many of you have probably noticed by now, my larger than life frame is not at AusCERT 2011. This is a shame as it sounding like one of the best AusCERTs in the history of AusCERT. There’s a couple of reasons for my absence – flu and the strange case of the disappearing job. My services at…
New laptop – Asus K52DR-EX143V
Much earlier this year, the Minister of War and Finance’s (hi Tanya!) old Dell augured in and bought the farm. First, Tanya spilt Milo (granulated malt) grains on the keyboard and this got under the key caps, causing the keys to stick. I tried cleaning it a couple of times, but many keys were never…
E-mail bankruptcy 2010
I’m very sorry to do this – again – but I’m going to declare e-mail bankruptcy on Dec 31, 2010. I have failed miserably in keeping my personal inbox clear and replying to e-mails this year. That has to change as it lets a lot of good folks down. If you have sent mail to me and…
Looking for inspiration
Like many technical writers, I am constantly looking for ways to improve my writing skills. I don’t think there will ever be a time when I think “Okay, that’s good enough” and stop criticizing my own work. I am constantly in awe of other authors, particularly those that have published great works. I seek out…
GaiaBB: Dog food coming soon
It’s been a slow haul working on converting all the database access to PDO. There’s just so MUCH crap in there. So to keep things moving, I’m going to move www.gaiabb.com to run on the donated OLPCs at my home. More details here.
Inbox Zero
It’s Inbox Zero time again. Every year, I do the Inbox Zero thing and archive all my mail (read and unread) on January 1 from the year just gone. I also tell myself it’s time to start following the IZ rules, but … they somehow always fall to the wayside. I get a lot more personally…
Be careful for what you wish for
Well, the Emissions Trading Scheme is dead – for now. Yay! I do a little dance on its grave. We’ll have to fight it when the double dissolution election comes up sooner than later. However, I wasn’t expecting the mad monk, Tony Abbot, to gain the Liberal leadership. That was a surprise, as I bet…
Dang expired credit cards
Well, that’s been a rotten few days… My friend TJ, 43, passed away from diabetic related complications and worse than third world access to basic health care in a first world country – the USA. My USA credit card expired. This domain expired and failed to auto-renew using my USA credit card. Tanya had to…
40 years ago today, humanity landed somewhere else than Earth
40 years ago today, three brave folks and a huge team at NASA (and indeed the entire industrial military might of the USA) travelled to the moon, and two landed somewhere else other than Earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out for two and a half hours, slept for a bit, ate a meal,…