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A lot of swans live here in the Australian Capital Territory. They seem to like our lakes. I have only ever seen black ones.

From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.

Yes, in Australia we have compulsory voting, but no national holiday. Polling day is on a Saturday, so most people can get to their local polling booth pretty easily. And since COV…

I think that the EV6 User Interface is pretty spot on, including things like side mirrors complemented by cameras that activate when you indicate, a nice HUD and real buttons for m…

I saw the book mentioned at random here mid way through last year and ordered it for my Kindle. To my surprise, it wouldn't be available until the end of the year. I found that puz…

Is there a place somewhere in the world where Hydrogen powered passenger vehicles are a success? I know that the one Hydrogen filling station here in Australia's Capital City has s…

Actual voice phone calls are so rare for me these days that I'll often go months without making or receiving one, though my mobile phone is always with me. And I recently realised …

Installed the snap on Ubuntu 24.04 and when I used it to look at /etc/sudoers.d/README, it emitted: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional Press RETURN to continue ...which I th…

I'm having trouble getting my head around an interview with Teller. We all know he doesn't speak. :)

I think that was the first time I ever saw Tridge deliver a conference presentation and it was to a packed lecture theatre at the ANU. He described how he 'hacked' BitKeeper by con…

This article gave me unpleasant flashbacks to the first half of 2023. I resigned from planet.com in mid 2023 due to the stress caused by being on-call every second week. It took me…

And only because some readers are quick to make assumptions - here is a link to the assumptions: https://shakenfist.com/manifesto/

When the Old Man shaking his fist at the Cloud is a former tech lead of OpenStack's Compute project Nova, I think it's worth paying attention. His fist started shaking 4 years ago,…

You won't be able to call Jenny with a typo'd number like that.

A quote from that excellent management training video, "A Bug's Life": First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault.

He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/

Jeff has published much about his Pi adventures. Some examples: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/ https://github.com/geerlingguy

I also had an emergency hospital visit a few months ago. Multiple X-Rays, a CT scan, two surgeries and innumerable drugs. I don't have health insurance. Cost to me? Zero. But then …

The Fully Charged show recently reviewed an electric tractor available in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClNdrJRan5k

Typo for 'solar'?

Darn. The tiny VM I have hosting my Quassel server for always-on IRC will go from approx 20 Australian cents per month to approx $4.30 per month. That's a rather large jump.