the turgid firehose of existence: Archive

Airplane! vs. Zero Hour!: A Comparison of Films →

“Airplane!, was a spoof-remake of Zero Hour!, a 1957 airplane disaster movie” - I knew this courtesy of Wikipedia, but hadn’t seen any of the original film, until now. Airplane! == “Flying High” in Australia…

Jul 30th

credmp » Blog Archive » Getting Things Done, in... →

nerd out, baby. half of this stuff was getting big (in Emacs-land) just as i stopped using Emacs (when i switched to a Mac). though sometimes, late at night, I pine for Emacs. I miss it. TextMate (and such) just isn’t doing it for me. and yet…

Jul 29th

YouTube - KIRIN LAGER / meets YMO →

an ad for Kirin beer, featuring…Yellow Magic Orchestra!

Jul 29th

tip for young players fiddling with presence on...

So if you’ve been poking at UCME (CallManager Express) 4.1 in IOS 12.4(15)T and got a bit lost with the presence service not behaving as it should - none of your blf-speed-dials show up on the phones - try renumbering them from 1. ie. maybe previously you had something like this configured, because you wanted the bottom 2 buttons on the phone assigned to numbers:ephone 1 device-security-mode...

Jul 28th

Jul 24th

familiar things in unfamiliar places

On my last ride to in work on the 112 tram, we reached the SuperStopTM at the top end of Collins St. I watched a scraggly old man carefully drape an Australian flag across a rubbish bin, before picking up his plastic bags and walking off. A few passers-by looked nervously at it, before it blew off and fell in a crumpled heap on the ground. (via ajcos blog posts)

Jul 23rd

sand

I’ve been lost in a sea of old documents: - farewell cards both from grade 6 and my first job - old printouts like a list of samples from skinny puppy tracks and what film they came from it was one of the first things I found on the net somewhere in the early 90s - an old, old, diary with a 5 year gap in it - manuals for devices that I no longer own - cards and postcards from...

Jul 21st

world party

…so for some reason I found myself staring at an ad on SBS, post-Rockwiz, for Steely Dan’s concert that’s happening sometime in the next lifetime, when it pointed out that they’re bringing World Party with them. If I wasn’t allergic to stadium gigs I’d be keen to see what Karl Wallinger’s up to - apparently he’s had a fairly odd time over the last...

Jul 21st

comfort noise

The day after we moved in, I could hear the sounds of people playing sport in the park out the back - soccer perhaps, I didn’t look. It took me back to growing up in the sprawl of the south-eastern suburbs where there was an oval a couple of streets away. On a lazy weekend you’d hear the same background sound occasionally punctuated by an air horn. And so, while sport’s never...

Jul 19th

first day on a brand new planet

on the first working day of this home-loan lifestyle i hopped on the tram a line i used to take a couple of years ago and sat down in an empty seat opposite a girl all dressed up in red wool to ward off the cold she looked at me and smiled and i wondered about the last time anybody randomly smiled at me just like that later as i hopped off the tram and waited for the bus...

Jul 16th

Jul 15th

DSC05465 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →

Jul 9th

Jul 8th

Health Physics Instrumentation Museum Directory →

a museum of radioactive things

Jul 7th

Jul 6th

…and all of its sickening crimes

all day long the passing of time broken into the parts between waiting and calling and waiting and being called and being told that it’ll be ok or maybe it won’t but we’ll have to wait and see i’ve done everything in my power to keep these bastards honest but still they find a way to twist the knife just to make sure you’ll know who’s wearing the trousers around here. (via...

Jul 4th

IOS IPS 5.x with 128MB of RAM

Since IOS 12.4(11)T (and hence it’s also the long-awaited 12.4(15)T), Cisco are using the version 5.x format for IPS signature files. There’s some documentation about it here: IPS 5.x Signature Format Support and Usability Enhancements Getting Started with Cisco IOS IPS with 5.x Format Signatures If your router (eg. an 877) only has 128MB of RAM, be careful when you configure this!...

Jul 1st

always greener...

Well, let’s see if this ipernity thing works. I’m glad I forked out for Picturesync all that time ago. (via ajcos blog posts)

Jul 1st