A juicy story

Albert left us some “juice” when he left, although I suspect he has ulterior motives… you see, by day it masquerades as a simple fruit juice drink… …but by night it is pure vitamin A, C & E… …although closer inspection reveals, oddly enough, that aside from food colouring, the vitamin content comes in as… Read more

Hard work always leads somewhere

A lovely little article here on procrastination. No, not how to avoid, or conversely some comic justification for it. Instead, it’s a thoughtful consideration of the types of procrastination, and then, what it really means to procrastinate. One thing which I really jive with is the talk about tackling big projects. It’s so hard for… Read more

Keep it Simple And Stupid

Every time I publish some photos using iPhoto, I have to manually edit the resulting files, move stuff about, and rejig stuff to get things setup as I want them on my site. I can’t ever really change what I’ve published, without going through the whole process over again – and then some. Consequently, it… Read more

Riding on thin ice

I was reminded twice today how tenuous my presence here is. On the ride back from work, the entire two blocks of it, I was nearly collected by two cars. The first was some yahoo racing to turn right. I didn’t have a green pedestrian crossing light, but I was going with the traffic. Luckily,… Read more

That scary sense of perpetuality

The thought has really occurred to me today that I can see myself in this job for the foreseeable future. Of course, I can’t get too comfortable, since I’m only here for another two months, but it’s definitely something I’d be happy to keep doing. Of course, I’d have to live somewhere else, I think…… Read more

Sunny California

Welcome to Sunny California! Yep, raining. Again. It does that a lot here. It is very like Melbourne. What a shame. ;) Although, since this little bit of Cupertino is all the big hotels and so forth, there’s some pretty nice scenery around here. For example, we have our Christmas tree already set up… And… Read more

Brett the Terrible

I tell you, it’s tough putting up with Brett. All that emotion and anger! ;) Good thing we’ve got this handy monitor widget to tell us what times we’d be better off pulling an all nighter at work. :D As you can see, Brett’s having a real bad time at the moment. Looking forward though… Read more