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I first used a Mac in about 1993 — a Quadra I think it might’ve been, or a Performa. I’d come from DOS and Amiga and didn’t really know anything about anything — I didn’t even know there was anything to be known. I remember hearing someone talking about Windows, and assuming they just meant [...]

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My new Ubuntu-flavoured ThinkPad is computing heaven, Cory Doctorow, The Guardian. [Local archive] This article will probably even appeal to Mac fans; certainly reminds me of my idea a few months ago to get one of these machines…

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A car-free web geek, recording this and that in the digital memex, mapping and cycling in Fremantle, striving for a bit of simplicity, and now and then building bits of wooden furniture by hand.

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- Trying, and failing, to get my head around Power Shell scripting; there's no input redirection? "The < operator is reserved for future use." [View], 2012/04/12
- "Our strong advice to anyone who disagrees with same-sex marriage is to not get married to someone of the same sex." —Stonewall. [View], 2012/03/10
- Good that it's beer o'clock... now in the shed, sharpening my plane, and *not* thinking about work. Nearly. [View], 2012/03/09
- Looks like Fremantle Records hasn't paid their hosting bill and their site is down. :-( http://t.co/qckk0CCE [View], 2012/03/06
Categories

Exploring
I like to go for rambling, aimless walks, though bush or suburbs, and sometimes I post here the words and pictures (and GPS traces) that I collect on these walks.

Open content
I edit on various Wikimedia projects and other wikis, and occasionally post here about whatever I'm working on. I am usually [[User:Samwilson]] on all projects.

Programming
I am a computer programmer by trade, working for a small company in South Fremantle. I contribute to a few little open source projects (plugins for WordPress, Dokuwiki, a few scripts for interacting with wikis around the place, etc.). I write about these things here when I can, working things out, announcing updates, musing on how things ought to be done...

Reading
'Reading' in the broad sense, but usually to do with texts that are made of text.

Status updates
Tweets, dents, Facebook statuses... from wherever they come, this category is the final and complete archive of them all.

Uncategorised

Woodworking
This blog began as a way for me to document my workshop practice when I was at the ANU school of art in Canberra. Now my life has moved away from working at the bench, but I still post about the small projects that I do get to work on, and the joy that I find in working wood by hand.
Recent Posts
May 2012
Contributing to Github-hosted projects
Printable WeRelate.org
April 2012
ninthfloor.org
Bike paths should be as good as roads
Ripping
January 2012
Sorry, Apple Inc., I've met something I like more than you
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?, by Richard Flanagan
Sitting near a fence
Wikisource now exports
Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive
How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton (1997)
George Steiner, a certain idea of knowledge
Rules for Making
Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse
December 2011
Getting sorted for the new year, in the Mocca Lounge

Before December 2011…
Comments
- 2012-05-08: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Sam Wilson)
- 2012-05-08: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Cristina)
- 2012-04-20: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (Brent)
- 2012-01-24: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Sam Wilson)
- 2012-01-23: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Kyle Anderson)
- 2011-09-01: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (Sam Wilson)
- 2011-08-31: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (John)
- 2011-08-19: Coding; Quakerism; and a Boring Title (Jorge Vasquez)
- 2011-07-16: Freo Bloggers’ meetup (Pam)
- 2011-06-01: Interpretive Demolition (Sam Wilson)
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Uncategorised technology Canberra Work Transport Fremantle Woodworking Place books Addressbook plugin A Place of One's Own Coming events Bicycle archiving Investigation Gardening dichotomy world wide web Reading Blogging Making University People Speed Placeblogging social networking wordpress photography woodwork technology Things how I write Exploring Wikimedia Chickens Politics Programming IBM tuggeranong Writing art school NaBloPoMo websites Fremantle Society non-fiction Seminars/Lectures/etc. family Railway Posts written when drunk Tools Arts and Crafts (movement) Facebook cars boredom keyboard vs. pen Image Flicker plugin email ANU quotations internet planing community WebDB Linux treenails AuDA ACT Greens address book Bookkeeping plugin plugins coding development Australian Computer Society History Writing in public view urbex Soetsu Yanagi The Unknown Craftsman sawing box wood manifesto boring posts workshop wikisource documentation recording Wikis Free Culture Quakerism trees code genealogy PHP cycling Kohana The Co-operative Food Shop travelling MediaWiki freedom Ubuntu laptops Lenovo FreoWiki digitising GLAM web future Freospace Hamilton Hill fiction Fine Woodworking magazine dovetails Photographs door jamb A chair in which to sit PVA glue technique young greens greens ABC plugin climate change marvin paranoid android 11th hour hipocracy craft air travel sewing blog action day squirrelmail webmail variable sent folder trunnels food co-op co-operative wordpress plugins slideshows images cartography hcard microformats gravatars suburbex ACS Telework Peak oil Food shortages Working from home Telecottage fanfic Theo Aronson fantasy Marrion Zimmer Bradley Darkover Victoria and Disraeli Alternate world Urban Exploration leaving the office scenery Nikon D60 Leaving Canberra Blathering exploration escape boxes Truth to Materials wheelbarrow urban resistance time attention to process communication correspondence speed of response slowing down visual diary glueless William Morris decoration dispair not good enough stock preparation sharpening posture inlaying emotion physicality closeness dovevtails woodwork technique assessment future plans prototyping bookplate Joseph Whitworth flattening pidgeonholes materials reuse shipping focus Satish Kumar legs Resurgence Magazine Walking With Water 2XXFM radio podcasts InDesign White Gum Valley moving storage MacKennal Street software samwilson.id.au website Brindabellas Windows Fileinfo workbench saw horses saw stools personal email archiver newspapers local history volunteering indexing cataloguing modernity Why I write Tim Brook-Taylor I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Public diary Lawrence Lessig Tropicana Duplication of content honesty God Tom M. Wilson childhood semantic web Wordsworth luddism In support of I.T. South Beach bibliography LibraryThing SQL MySQL Drupal Cantonment Hill Wikipedia Openstreetmap mapping HTML PDF JPG Literate Programming javadoc Donald Knuth databases GIS MGA UTM bc_base_convert Morton codes Z-order (curve) Food Co-op Zend columns sorting sessions URI redirecting Casio F-91W watches timekeeping I.T. PDFs concatenation image manipulation Federal Election 2007 voting STV Commons O'Connor Community Garden Edmund Street collaboration causes heritage Richard Stallman RMS Free Software Foundation GNU David Clarke themes skinning design TwentyTen porting Pecl Fremantle City Council journalism e-volunteering date ranges Semantic MediaWiki calendar temporal reasoning Kieran Benton Stack Overflow code snippets The Guardian Cory Doctorow ThinkPad RSS feeds news Twitter djvu Ben Kafka paperwork Information Technology ICT bricklaying Gosch Street houses GLAMcamp punctuation logic Slate Ben Yagoda Chicago Manual of Style Open Data Kit ODK OpenRosa Java data collection Roundhouse Captains Lane West End Heritage interpretation Internet Society ISOC jQuery validation selecting Fremantle Council precincts Hilton revolution Figo's tabular forms X-Wray FICRA identity gmail Marco Arment Neal Stephenson imagination doubt optimism meetings cafés Carrington Street suburbia landscape nature kitchens renovating alcohol joy rants sheds Walter Scott Waverley Pink Dandelion Oxford University Press Subversion externals Project Management revision control Travels with Charley America dogs open standards Dave Winer Occupy Android decentralisation Code Complete Steve McConnell Brian Kernighan P. J. Plauger Compton MacKenzie Scotland hiking Carnival nomenclature filesystems organisation files Mocca Lounge digitisation P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life George Steiner culture silence roots articles Boring Kevin Kelly The European epub exporting typography Internet Archive Brewster Kahle libraries cloud storage Mac OS Apple fandom Douglas Adams Open Source activism gratis libre free as in speech X220 Richard Flanagan And what do you do Mr Gable? ripping sawdust hand tools cutlery drawer ninthfloor.org hosting beards git Github version control werelate.org GraphViz graphics