Random thoughts and observations
I have a lot of respect for ABC Regional Radio and the service it provides. I also appreciate the ABC has an important role as an emergency services broadcaster. But I struggle to see the merit in broadcasting fairly mundane fire updates across the whole of country South Australia. Driving home from work in Mount [...]
There has been some discussion following the Victorian fires about whether dugouts might have saved lives. They saved lives in 1939, including my Uncle Jim. My Uncle Michael died in a dugout, but there were exceptional circumstances. My Aunt Noreen talked about the issues on Radio National with Philip Adams: Tweet Pin It
The twins celebrated their third birthday today. It's hard to believe they are that old already. Here's the entry I wrote the day after they were born. Jim and Maggie aren't old enough to understand it's their birthday, but they know it's a special day because of the presents they received and the party we [...]
I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online. It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include [...]
Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie. There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post: Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP. Some of the stable packages are out [...]
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