Back to the future

Once I heard, on Monday, when pop’s funeral would be, I booked a flight over. That was annoying to do – it took a few hours just to book because Qantas’s booking website is seriously snafu and I had to try a couple of different routes through it to find one that actually worked. Then… Read more

Hey presto, darkness

My 23″ Cinema Display stopped working last night. It worked in the morning, and now it doesn’t. I have no idea what happened or what’s broken. I miss it… having to put my Safari windows on the same monitor as Mail just seems inappropriate.

May you live an interesting life

I’ve had an interesting weekend. In the Chinese-proverb sense of the word. Friday night I got an email from dad informing me pop was in hospital. This wouldn’t normally bother me too much as it’s not an uncommon occurrence. That dad felt it necessary to send me an email, however, was unusual. When I spoke… Read more

Dirty, so very dirty

I took advantage of CrossOver’s somewhat undesired give-away of their products, as part of their Lame Duck challenge. I don’t particularly have any Windows stuff I want to run, but I thought I’d check out World of Goo – it sounded like fun and it seems to be pretty popular. I had to laugh at… Read more

La Honda [partially] defeated

I was surprised to find the weather today wasn’t half bad; it’s been crappy and raining for a few days – which reminded me very nostalgically of Melbourne, with how quickly we went from summer to winter, and furthermore the daily pattern of rain in the mornings and sunny afternoons. Still not a huge amount… Read more

Whistler [finally]

Plans are afoot for me, accompanied by Laz, to cruise over to Whistler in early February. For a week or so, probably. He’s moving to Canada in mid-January sometime and naturally wants to make good use of the winter straight away, especially given he’s never been skiing or snowboarding before. Should be interesting. :) I’ve… Read more

California Academy of Sciences

I wandered up into S.F. to the Academy of Sciences [Museum] yesterday. It’s been in the news lately because it’s either new or refurbished, but in any case they have a shiny new planetarium which is apparently the shizit. It seemed a better way to spend a Saturday, in any case, than sitting at home.… Read more