The opportunity has come up for me to escape Dunedin, and go a long way away for an indefinite time. So, I’m jumping on the idea, and planning on moving to the Netherlands, Deventer specifically, to work for Topicus. I’ll have a 6-month contract with them to start with, that is evaluated after 3 months [...]
I realised that I’d forgotten to mention this here, so now I’ll amend that.In July/August, I’ll be spending five weeks in Europe. I leave NZ on the 13th of July, and get back on the 22nd of August.It’s just for a holiday, so should be a fairly cruisy time. And I miss out on some [...]
Yesterday I got back from a bit of a holiday in Auckland. The purpose of the trip was to go to Kiwi Foo Camp (a.k.a. Baa Camp). It is a gathering of 150 people with creative interests in various, generally technology related, things. It’s aim is to be a way for all these people to [...]
I’m in need of a bit of a holiday, so I’ve booked myself to head up north for a bit over a week. I fly in to Auckland on Friday the 24th of August, on the 25th I’m going to see Psyche, and then on the 28th spend the day bussing down to Wellington. This [...]
Today was apparently the hottest day Sydney has seen so far this summer. As someone who finds 25 degrees uncomfortably warm, the 35-40 degrees we had today was a bit much. It didn’t help that most of what I was doing involved walking from Pyrmont (where I am right now) to The Rocks, and back [...]
(Jono Bacon) Jokosher is aimed at being an audio production tool for Gnome, to replace things like Cubase. Jono is of Lugradio fame, and spent some time complaining about the lack of good audio mixing and editing tools on Linux, so the community got Jokosher started. It’s looking quite good, and hopefully a near final [...]
(John Stowers) John’s showing off a program called Conduit. It’s a really interesting looking application that is used to move data from one application to another (or visa-versa). The kinds of things that a looks like it can do at this stage is synchronising a folder of pictures, and flickr, or Tomboy synchronising notes onto [...]
I’m currently sitting listening to Keith Packard talk. He’s good at it. He’s discussing all the new developments in X.org. As always, it’s looking quite good. Finally, things like dual-head and plugging extra monitors into laptops will just work automatically. Apparently, it’ll no longer be actually possible to do it from xorg.conf, instead it’ll all [...]
A few days back I posted this, where I mentioned the lack of wireless access at Christchurch airport. Today, I got a reply saying that they’ll be doing something about that. I’m pleasantly surprised that a company like that (I always think of airports as kinda staid and conservative, that may not actually be the [...]
Now I’m in Melbourne, I arrived yesterday. It’s a cool day here, only about 24 or so I managed to get sunburnt, which is something that hasn’t happened in Dunedin for a while. I’ve just been doing stuff with family. There’s a thing on tonight I wouldn’t mind going out to (this), but I’m still [...]