A good samaritan

A guy just knocked on the door a few minutes ago, with a parcel addressed to Aidan. For whatever reason, it had been dropped off (presumably by Australia Post; it doesn’t look couriered) a few streets away. But since the name and address were printed clearly and correctly on it in big bold letters, it… Read more

Let’s play pass the blame

So Australia Post doesn’t have my package; it seems like it definitely left their hands last Friday. When I rang FedEx again and told them this, they were pretty adamant that it didn’t end up back at them; they think Australia Post has shipped it back to the U.S. Now, I know I’m not studying… Read more

MISO, MOSI, same difference

I think I’ve already ranted on this topic previously, so I’ll try to be brief this time around. We’ve had a fair bit of trouble with various peripherals on the board, particularly the Bluetooth module, due to the extremely sad state of affairs that is technical documentation in general. The latest casualty of dodgy documentation… Read more

So about this graduating business

A week or two ago I was checking over StudentOnline for some reason or another, and I came across a disturbing apparent fact: I need 690 credit points for my degree, have 595 (plus 15 from DIS, still not officially accounted for), and am currently enrolled in 75-worth… for the arithmetically impaired, that puts my… Read more

Everyone’s too busy calling to answer

Ashley just pointed out a recent blog entry from Wil Shipley, the niche famous author of Delicious Library, titled Frozen in Carbonite. In a nutshell he’s lamenting the lack of good APIs from Apple for some of their more fundamental but less buzzy APIs – Quicktime, the keychain & security stuff, etc. Note that I… Read more

FedEx strikes again!

About two weeks ago a package was FedEx’d to me from the U.S.A. It arrived earlier this week. Unfortunately, it was sent to my mother’s address instead of mine, but that’s okay. She missed the delivery, so she got them to reroute it to the post office at La Trobe. Apparently FedEx reckon’d it would… Read more