Vegas

’bout time I wrote this up, I suppose. Some months I’m just not in the mood for writing. Then I sit down abruptly and spend four hours doing it. Go figure. It was a lot more continuous when I was back in Oz and had more immediate feedback from people. Or just social contact in… Read more

Alpine Meadows skiing

So, skiing. Friday morning our plans changed – James, whom works at Loopt, was able to get their corporate cabin for the weekend, which is up somewhere just north of Tahoe City. So we cancelled the motel in South Lake Tahoe (pfft, $160 cancellation fee… arses) and planned to hit Alpine Meadows instead. The name… 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

Hacking “My iTunes”

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

North Island photos now online

Well, it’s only taken me nearly two months since they were actually taken, but hey, better late than never; my New Zealand photos – from the North Island only, at this point – are now available on my Flickr account. Enjoy! :D As I’ve said before though, only the best and relatively benign photos are… Read more

Flickr account

I’ve been sorting through my New Zealand photos… I’ve done a first screening pass – where I pick which ones are publishable – and am now going through and naming all of them (and commenting on some). After that comes a second screening, where I double-check the ones I chose the first time round. And… Read more

Rock climbing & Darkzone

Since we’d last seen each other when we had the Agora catchup last week (or whenever it was… or two weeks ago, as my journal reveals) Tony & I had been throwing back and forth ideas for things to do, in particular things that would appeal to a wide audience, such as Jess. We came… Read more