It’s probably a good thing that you don’t see what goes on behind the scenes at Casa Del Girtby. Instead of fully-formed posts (or what passes for such on this site) instead I have lately just been producing mostly unrelated snippets. They don’t deserve a post in their own right, but if I give each [...]
So there I am at Linux.conf.au on Tuesday. As with the previous day, there are lots of “MiniConfs” on fairly specialised topics, and I think it’s fair to say that the conference proper didn’t really start until the Wednesday. Nevertheless, there are lots of geeks hanging around, chatting to each other. I look over and [...]
Here is a picture of a slinky that has been turned inside out, or reversed, or … something.
You can see that the circular logo of Questacon is still present, but each of the segments has been reversed.
Frankly, I’m at a bit of a loss to explain it. Well, I can imagine stretching the diameter of [...]
My SO came home this afternoon to a crowd of police outside our house. We’d been broken into. Again.
It happened while both of us were at work. The neighbour from two doors down came home and found a Lexus blocking his garage door. We live in a row of terrace houses with a rear lane [...]
Hello, I’m Alastair Rankine.
Well, as revelations go, that’s hardly as exciting as Kiss appearing without makeup for the first time. But I have been expending some effort trying to maintain a degree of anonymity on girtby.net, and so it’s not an easy decision to open the kimono.
I described the original reason for anonymity was to [...]
“Everyone should have a project,” says Julieanne Kost in a recent podcast.
It’s easy to underestimate the importance of this statement. A lot of the time “project” becomes synonymous with “hobby”, and hence something to not be taken seriously. But projects are important and everyone should have one. That is, a creative outlet that also challenges [...]
I’m sure the distribution of ratings in my iTunes music library says something about me.
I’ve spent some time thinking about how to assign ratings and even writing scripts to report on my progress. And what progress have I to report?
Of 2720 rated songs in my library, exactly 15 are deemed worthy of a perfect 5 [...]
The past couple of weeks have been very busy for the Girtby household, mainly due to the household moving into a new house. A not-rented house at that. Yaay.
There was the usual chaos with boxes, paint rollers, and furniture rearrangement. In addition to this there was internet withdrawal. We finally got the internet installed a [...]
Last weekend, Peter convinced me to go to the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Field Day.
This was a great event, providing me with a glimpse of what cyberspace looked like before the Internet. Before the personal computer even. Events like this are great, you really get a sense of the community, and of the obsession [...]
The great thing about blogging is that even when you perform some totally pointless task or make a futile gesture, at least you get to redeem some benefit from it by sharing with others.
So, in that vein let me tell you all now that I have attempted to report an email spammer to the Australian [...]
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