I didn’t get up to much over the holiday break… I worked when the mood took me, which was occasionally, but otherwise just watched movies, gamed, and successfully avoided all household duties. NYE I didn’t end up going out, which I felt pretty poor about going into the evening, but eventually realised that a) pretty… Read more
While shopping for wine for Myke & Pam for Christmas (I went with a chardonnay and merlot from Lindeman’s and … some other South Australian winery… anyway), I happened to find myself in the confectionary aisle – I know, truly bizarre ;) – and figured what the hell, I’d indulge myself slightly and go some… Read more
For a while now I’ve been wanting to do some tutorials based around Shark and some other tools my group publishes. Not for work as such, but, obviously I have a bias and stock in the idea. The more I work on & with Shark the more I’m surprised by what it can do. But… Read more
That’s right, I used an arroba in the title, muahahaha. Christmas day, yesterday, I went round to Myke’s place for Christmas dinner. Mainly his family, and a couple of friends such as myself. It was pretty good, actually – I can handle being away from family for Christmas, though I do miss it, and Myke’s… Read more
I went and saw National Treasure 2 last… Saturday? I dunno. It was pretty good; much what I expected, and very much in the theme of the first. The way Wilkinson magically turned into the martyrous good guy at the end irked me a bit; I didn’t buy it; I don’t think they conveyed his… Read more
For a few months now, there’s been a lot of little ants invading my bathroom. Mostly I realised this because they’ve been accumulating, dead, all over the floor. More recently, I also noticed live ones wandering around the basin. Even more recently, in the last week or two, they’ve invade my bedroom as well –… Read more