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Month: June 2010

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Did anyone else get an SMS from the ATO this morning? Just reminding me that it’s tax time. Helpful, if a little creepy…

    My right wrist is hurting today, so @Opheli8 suggested I move the mouse to my left hand. So far it’s really weird and awkward.

    Left-hand mousing sucks. It’s not the movement; it’s the button-clicking. I keep clicking it accidentally. Photoshop is impossible.

    Site is down again. Come on, Quadrahosting. What is the problem?!

    @redambition The boob thing? Yeah, I just saw that myself.

    @wheelyweb I just can’t bring myself to change hosts AGAIN. I’m always disappointed.

    Site is back up. QH replied that “server is under attack”?! Yikes.

    @wheelyweb I just got problem resolved in 8 minutes, which is good. Appears to be some sort of DDOS attack. Not really their fault then…

    @codepo8 I saw that yesterday. They put a notification in my old feed. Did you want them to just redirect?

    @codepo8 I see your point. I don’t use it for code, just for RSS reader.

    The Silly Knitted Hat Brigade waits for the bus. It is cold. http://twitpic.com/21ca28

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Just completed a 5.43 km run with RunKeeper – Foot pain: 2/10. Niggle in rt knee. Cold!!

  • Happy birthday!

    Happy birthday to my Mom and to my stepbrother Colfax!

  • 8-bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive Game

    8-bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive Game. This is FANTASTIC. Twilight done as an old-school choose-your-own-adventure style Nintendo game… all on YouTube. Even if you hate Twilight – or rather, ESPECIALLY if you hate Twilight – you’re gonna love this.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @drkknits Lightweight. I’m lucky to get it under 1000. (Metafilter contributes a lot of that though!)

    @L4Designs Hahaha, no way. @venks79 got me in at Mobileactive 18months ago, and we pulled in @kunaal84 3months ago. Way better!

    Apple’s website shows my repair as finished… but they haven’t actually called or emailed. Can I just turn up and get it, I wonder?

    @stufromoz I did. AppleCare dude confirmed it’s ready. Oddly, then got call from Service 2min later. Maybe AC called them out for slacking?

    MacBook with new hard drive and trackpad is home, and Snook is doing his magic!

    Migration from old dying hard drive is proceeding… slowly. (Snook scoffs at Apple Genius who said he’d never get anything off it.)

    MacBook is completely back to normal. Moral of the story: Always, ALWAYS get AppleCare for your laptop. Well worth it.

    @codepo8 Snook had 2nd interview today! Met with Sebastian. Seems to be going well… 🙂

    @squozen I don’t think you would’ve had as easy a time finding and installing a new trackpad. I didn’t say the repair was ONLY the HD… 🙂

    @squozen And yes, yes, MOM. I don’t have anything critical on here; it was mostly just to save time. Time Machine backups commencing.

    @squozen I’ll concede you are exception to AC rule. But 90%+ of people – inc me – don’t want or care to DIY computers. That’s what $ is for!

    @DDsD ThinkGeek, of course. http://bit.ly/4YRCXJ (Or if you can find the dots, you can commission me to knit you some.)

    @squozen So would Snook. But that sounds like work to me, time/attention/effort I’d rather not spend if I can avoid!

    Yes, I know my site isn’t working properly. DB is refusing connections. Waiting for QuadraHosting to restart Apache…

    Sites are back up. Thank you Quadrahosting!

    Yesterday’s 15min head start has turned into 15min behind today. Are trains down? Everyone’s cramming on slow-moving buses.

    @Opheli8 The very best day of the week!

    8-Bit Twilight Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game: http://youtu.be/kd-21k_BSFQ AWESOME. Way better than the movie will be, even for haters.

  • HPatDH Official Trailer

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Official Trailer. Looks awesome. I just wish YouTube would let me go through it frame-by-frame so I can identify all the scenes.

    Edited to add: Screw YouTube. If you go to the official site, you can get to the Quicktime version which allows you to go through slowly.

  • New Appliances!

    New cooktop and ovenIf you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw me geeking out over our new cooktop and oven all weekend. It was very momentous! We like to cook, and our old setup was just painful to use. (Here’s a picture of the old electric hob and crappy Blanco oven from when we moved in.) Two of the hotplates didn’t work anymore, and then oven never got to the right temperature. You’ll recall that we ordered the new stuff about two weeks ago, and on Friday the warehouse called to arrange delivery. Saturday morning we started by turning off the power and disconnecting the old cooktop and oven. The Snook and I were able to remove them ourselves and take them outside. (City of Sydney will pick them up for free tomorrow morning.) Needless to say, the cabinet opening was pretty damn icky. We gave that a good washing while waiting for the delivery. And then they finally arrived! It was very exciting. Jonathan came over to help with the installation. (He’s an electrician.) Luckily we only had to make one sidetrip to the hardware store to pick up extra bits. Jonathan put in a circuit breaker for us, added a plug to the oven, and wired up the cooktop. Then it was just up to the Snook to enlarge the benchtop opening a bit so the cooker would fit in. After a very long day, we finally had it all in place!

    So far we’re loving it. The oven reaches temperature in less than 10 minutes and it’s got loads more space than our old one. We’ve also played around with the dividing shelf (which allows you to set two separate temperatures). We also have a rotisserie thingo which will apparently rotate and cook a joint of meat in there?! Pretty amazing. The cooktop has also lived up to expectations. It boils a pot of water in about 3 minutes! The only problem was that we discovered that our cheapo saucepans that we’d hoped would work on the induction actually don’t. So that left us with only two pans – a big stainless steel frying pan and our Le Creuset cast iron dutch oven – that would actually work on it. We ended up going to Victoria’s Basement on Sunday to buy a set of Scanpan Fusion 5 stainless steel pots which work great. So far we’ve made a steak dinner, banana bread, roast veggies, toad-in-the-hole, and apple-berry crumble with our new setup. It was well worth the wait!

  • Skeuomorph

    Word of the day: skeuomorphic.

  • Bettina Arndt sucks

    Bettina Arndt sucks. I was going to write her an email about how I found her article extremely patronising and out-of-touch, but there are about 150 comments (and counting) already saying the same thing. Her attitude towards marriage is exactly WHY I was so reluctant to get married. I don’t want her to count me on her team. We got married to celebrate our relationship with our friends and family, not because I’m a victim who wants to have babies and needs the law to keep the Snook from running for the hills.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @Kimchiboy0208 Sydney is very, very cold today!

    RT @_mel_: Woah. Stop the presses! Ed Westwick AKA Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl is in Syd tomorrow! http://bit.ly/9zuCN0 (via @pedestrian …

    I have been craving laksa ever since @redambition mentioned it last week. Denied again. Today Best Thai “ran out of noodles”?!

    @redambition I know! Noodles are a Thai restaurant’s whole raison d’être.

    @randomknits I really agree. They were “Adequate Thai” at best today.

    @gilmae That’s what I had instead of the desired laksa. It was suboptimal. Didn’t even have peanuts on it!

    Had to make @venks79 physically remove the iPad from my desk. It’s too enticing! Childlike sense of wonder is a powerful (distracting) drug.

    @steven_noble No leaflets received at our house tonight…

    @venks79 I think we will probably get one to put on the coffee table, but we’ll wait til the 2nd gen I think.

    Sydney drivers can’t drive in the cold, apparently. My 15min headstart to work has evaporated. Come ON, already!

    Bettina Arndt sucks. That is all.

    @L4designs Good morning… 🙂

    @mrs_sockvictim Oh Miss Fee. I love you, so I will pretend not to have read that.