When I see headlines like “The Wii News Channel to go live this Saturday” I usually have to allow for it being an American press-release and hence it means “Sunday New Zealand time”. Pleasantly enough this time it actually means “Friday Evening”. What can I say after ten minutes playing with it? Coolest text zoom…

I spent yesterday at the wings of Wairarapa airshow. Unfortunately none of my photos of the Polikarpov I-153 came out well, but here are some of the photos that did: A De Havilland Vampire T11 warming up its engine. It is virtually impossible to photograph a Corsair when it is flying 100 feet above the…

Comet McNaught. Wow.

The Christmas Squid guards the pressies.

There is a new version of my memory logging script available. I haven’t changed it a lot yet and I certainly haven’t addressed all the feedback I was sent. The major change is that it now uses /proc//smaps for the top-ten process list. There is also minimal documentation available in perl pod format. Use pod2text…

We were fortunate enough on Sunday to see the porcupines being trained at the zoo. This is referred to as “medical training”. The theory appears to be that you can either wrestle a grumpy porcupine onto a set of scales when it gets ill, or train it to get onto a set of scales (represented…

About a week ago Quim put out a call for better profiling of whole-desktop resource use. This isn’t it, but it is a start. Consider it more of an update of Lubos Lunak’s comparison from GNOME 2.14 vs. KDE 3.5.2. In that comparison KDE won by tens of megabytes. I have cooked up a perl…

From the New Zealand Herald website about mid afternoon: Fiji coup delayed for rugby match SUVA – The Army will not seize power in Fiji this afternoon because of a rugby match with the police. A midday deadline (1.00pm NZT) imposed by Army Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama,… As a workmate said, “Rugby was the winner…

Most people who care about this will have already asked about the details, so this is for the mildly interested. The first cycle of treatment has been called off because the response from Cushla’s ovaries was too great (triplets are bad). The lab worker’s strike didn’t help either. The next cycle will start in February…

It’s been a good week for work so far. This weeks major project – which I’d budgeted all week for – was finished by just before lunchtime. Despite the fact that I’d slacked off most of yesterday. Then, after an argument at lunchtime about whether my MRST project goal for December 31st could be done…