Georgia Tech Career Fair Trip

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On Monday I had the great privilege of waking up at 6:30 am to catch my 9am flight to Atlanta, Georgia. Which is to say, my 9am flight to Phoenix, Arizona, and then to Atlanta. Hooray for the crazy U.S. airline industry. :/ It’s threeish hours time difference from here to there, plus five hours… Read more

It’s happening again!..

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I slept in today, good and proper. Granted I didn’t go to bed ’till after 2am – I was coding and in the zone and didn’t want to stop – but nonetheless a rising time of noon is impressive by my own standards. ‘course, I was thirsty and hungry and felt like crap for it,… Read more

The Chaser’s War on International Repute

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I’ve been watching with much interest the drabs of news that come my way on the recent Chaser antics around the APEC (APIC? ASIC? meh, whatever) thing in Sydney. It’s hard to say if their antics were actually successfully funny until I see the video, but the sadly predictable responses from a few of the… Read more

1,000 and counting

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My car rolled over 1,000 miles on Wednesday. My bike got a nice giant nail in it, again, earlier in the week and I’ve been busy each night and haven’t gotten around to fixing it. I do have a spare tube, but that still has a hole in it from one of the previous encounters… Read more

Mount Diablo

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I quite wanted to make good use of the long weekend (albeit 3 days only) here to get out and travel a bit, but I never really committed to anything early enough to actually organise it… but I was still determined to do something (ergo the bike riding on Saturday). Today, on the suggestion of… Read more

Back to the hills

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On Saturday I went for a ride up towards the reservoir in the hills west of here. I was interested to see how difficult it would be, to gauge my relative fitness since riding up there last time I was here. I was fairly pleasantly surprised – I rode the entire way from home to… Read more

Hacking “My iTunes”

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Disclaimer: I see no harm in doing this as shown below, simply for the sake of changing the colours and [playfully] the strings, but of course don’t be a jackarse and subvert the app for other uses or whatever. Also, if anyone knows a way to use your own CSS and XML files without having… Read more