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“Machines should work, people should think.” The message repeats itself several times; it’s the core of the film’s techno-utopian vision. We can imagine IBM executives and lawyers and public relations agents sitting across a table from Jim Henson telling him to make sure he includes these lines in his film. What if, following William Empson’s [...]
[Keywords: Ben Kafka, IBM, ICT, Information Technology, paperwork, technology, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have recently started helping to maintain The Fremantle Society’s website (fremantlesociety.org.au), and it’s reminding me of why I work in IT and of how much I’ve been missing being part of any greater endevour (with people, I mean, and working together for some purpose — as I once did with the Coop, for instance). [...]
[Keywords: causes, collaboration, Fremantle, Fremantle Society, heritage, MediaWiki, technology, The Co-operative Food Shop, websites] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve just submitted a patch for Squirrelmail’s Variable Sent Folder plugin, fixing that plugin’s lack of respect for the user’s choice of folder-select-box display. It’s been annoying me for a while. Here’s the patched version (0.4sw).
[Keywords: email, plugins, squirrelmail, technology, variable sent folder, webmail] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Just to intersperse this stream of codeish posts with something a little more real… I rode part of the way to work today, and then put my bicycle on the bus for the remainder of the journey. (An odd feeling, looking through the bus’ windscreen and seeing my little bike all alone out there, bobbing [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, craft, Making, technology, Transport, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
My brain is feeling pretty groggy at the moment, so excuse any pointlessness in this post. Not that there’s ever any point to my posts, but that’s beside the point. I’m at work, almost thinking that the afternoon’s nearly half-gone and so, well, what’s the point of doing any more work… There are, in Australia, [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, AuDA, Place, Placeblogging, social networking, technology, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Facebook vs. Wordpress — August 22nd, 2007, 4PM
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The last few weeks have seen a great number of my friends turn to Facebook (and, of course, I know exactly how many). It’s great, it’s exciting, it’s suddenly become so easy to organise things and we can now all talk about Facebook when we meet for a coffee at the Front; however, all is [...]
[Keywords: archiving, Facebook, Placeblogging, Politics, social networking, technology] [No comments] [Permanent link]
New BB For Me — June 13th, 2007, 6PM
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I’ve just installed a new bottom bracket in my bicycle. It’s a Shimano UN26, 68x113mm (1mm narrower than the old one, but that’s just closed up the little gap I had anyway), and cost $40. I’m posting this just so that I don’t forget… I’ve finally figured out how to know which way to undo [...]
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"Dad, I dug a hole." — May 20th, 2007, 12PM
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I have been digging this morning, working on the chicken run. It’s muddy, now we’ve started pulling up the concrete, and the clay sucks at my boots and sticks to all the tools; how very far this is from my memories of digging soakwells in Fremantle! (Incidentally: I have only just learnt that around here [...]
[Keywords: Arts and Crafts (movement), Chickens, Gardening, technology, Tools] [No comments] [Permanent link]
During the last few days I’ve been working with Margo Kingstong and Kate Tucker on porting Kerrie Tucker’s website to WordPress. I’ve also set up the new ACT Greens online merchandise shop, Green Shop. So I’ve probably had about enough of sitting at here at our kitchen table hunched over this laptop; why I’m not [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, People, Politics, technology, Uncategorised, Woodworking, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been sorting through my (digital) photos lately, uploading the good ones to my website. It’s drudge-work, peaceful in its way like all drudge-work, and now and then I stumble upon a particularly nice shot, or one that evokes some pleasant memory, and so I don’t mind doing it. My idea is that this [...]
[Keywords: archiving, photography, technology, Things, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am exhausted, but strangely not completely sick of this assignment. It’s beer o’clock, and I’m going to the pub. Part of me wants to stay and keep going—while I’m going well an’ all—but I think I’ve just deleted a function from the file I’m working on, and I didn’t notice for ten minutes. Sigh. [...]
[Keywords: technology, University] [No comments] [Permanent link]
(So why am I saying this?) I am looking forward to the day when I will again have something worth writing about (and I’m thinking here of woodwork: one of the happiest times of wood/tech union was back in 2003 when I was working at the art school wood workshop. The web then was a [...]
[Keywords: dichotomy, technology, Woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Procrastination — September 7th, 2006, 3PM
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I’m lost today, lost in a dull quagmire of concurrency, Ada and the oppresive weight of too much stuff. I have an assignment to do and I understand very little of it. I suspect that I could figure it out, but I can’t be bothered. If I could see clearly the important things, in life [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, technology, Woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Often, when I’m sitting in a lecture about concurrency, say, or sketching a possible design for some program, I actively love the fountain pen that I’m using at these times. Engaging with I.T., I find such great comfort in using such an old and ‘outdated’ technology. I usuallly don’t find this particularly interesting, becuase it [...]
[Keywords: People, technology, Uncategorised, Woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Grepping — April 9th, 2006, 11AM
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Global Search Regular Expression Print. An’ there I was, thinking McKenzie Wark was aluding to some pre-1976 use of this term. ‘Course he wasn’t, A Hacker Manifesto is way fully for geeks who’d know how to search, and what to call it.
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Triple Gripe — December 24th, 2005, 5PM
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Eighteen buckets of water for A.’s garden. A cycle over to my new community garden plot in O’Connor. And now much grief caused by our bothersome host. It’s fun carrying buckets, when one doesn’t have to worry about getting sunburnt. I’m oh-so-excited about digging my new plot! If you’re in the market, don’t, whatever you [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, Gardening, technology] [No comments] [Permanent link]
My xorg.conf — December 18th, 2005, 11AM
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At last we have Ubuntu working with a SGI 1600SW Flatpanel display. Here’s the xorg.conf: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf [...]
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Hyphens and dashes — September 10th, 2005, 6PM
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Dashes and hyphens, a good article from the Characters and encodings section of the free information site IT and communication by Jukka “Yucca” Korpela.
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Where Do I Walk, Then? — September 10th, 2005, 3PM
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Today I reinstate this weblog. I’ve shuffled files around on this server, and I’ve shuffled boxes and books around in my bedroom; it’s Spring, and time to re-organise, clear up, and start to think again. Last week I thought I was doing just so, but I wasn’t: I thought that I’d re-affirm my trust in [...]
[Keywords: technology, Things, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I have spent far too long on the computer. My mind is in quite a strange state. What am I to do? All this coding suddenly seems pointless, and I want to stroll on the terrace, prehaps sit with a quiet cup of tea, or be warmed by the fire and Keats. Escaping the world [...]
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I got up early this morning to grab the phone line before the others awake – there’s eight here today and I guess someone will come hassling before long. I have returned to using wordpress (the software that I was using last year briefly) for this site, and have updated it to the latest (stable) [...]
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