“I can still drive, I just can’t hit anything”

My car insurance got cancelled last week. Hooray. The reason being that the necessary people apparently never got the copy of my drivers’ license I sent forever ago. They were kind enough to give me all of about four days notice. I sent it off again, and this time confirmed they’d received it, but they… Read more

Killing time

I didn’t get up to much today, in terms of exciting, extraordinary events. Mostly I was working on the Keychain framework… there were mostly-brief periods of Halo & Starcraft, but I was coding mostly, honest.. ;) By dinner time I’d had enough of Xcode for one day, so I nipped off to see Resident Evil… Read more

The Arcade Fire

I just got back from the Arcade Fire concert I mentioned previously. LCD Soundsystem also played, and a band called “Wild Light”, that no-one had heard of. I didn’t mind them much at all, but no-one else seemed particularly impressed. All in all it was pretty good. LCD Soundsystem were pretty good, and the Arcade… Read more

It never rains…

I tells ya, it’s a harsh world – several weekends with nothing much happening, and then I run into Gus at work and realise he’s not in France like I’d thought, and now he’s doing the movie thing tomorrow night (Resident Evil 3, which despite all logic I want to see :D ) and yet… Read more

Evil My iTunes

I spent most of this afternoon and evening trying to get the myitunes.swf widget to load it’s actual data from somewhere other than the iTMS. Part of that was writing a fairly simple Cocoa app to generate the XML data I wanted – i.e. a “feed” or my actual favourite music, not a list of… Read more

The doctor is just being calibrated, be with you shortly

Now why is it we never had subjects like this? Granted U.S. universities work quite differently and you typically only do two or three subjects concurrently, as opposed to half a dozen or more in Australia, but still… I expect Rob will be especially envious, since the winners were given Fluke DMMs. :P The actual… Read more

Return to Oz

It’s now only 9 weeks or so ’till Thanksgiving here, so I’m starting to think about when at least I’ll head on back to Australia. On a whim I happened to check Qantas’ flights for Thanksgiving and over Christmas. Cost for Thanksgiving, around $1200US. I was actually budgeting about $1800 in my head based on… Read more