The past few weeks have been pretty busy, though mostly with monotonous uni-related tasks. A few notable things have happened however:

• I finally applied for a passport. It'll probably be ready in a week or so and I will need to apply for a visa Real Soon Now.
• Jez returned from a couple of months on Heron Island where he was doing his coral ( Read more... )

I find it amusing that this week's overdue rent notice came in an envelope stamped by the post office as "UNDERPAID."

It should of course be noted that our rent is in fact paid up-to-date and the error is on the rental agency's behalf. We've been receiving these notices every fortnight since November.

Hello, world! It's been quite a while since this journal was updated -- 80 weeks, in fact. Well, as I'm preparing to head overseas for another year, it's time to bring this thing back to life. A lot has happened in the meantime...

For the past two years I've been studying Computer Systems Engineering, German and (for one year) Russian at the ( Read more... )

As of Saturday, I'm the proud new owner of a Kodak Master View Camera (4x5), vintage unknown (circa 1940s?). Film is about as affordable as it is easy to get ahold of, but I have to figure out how I'm going to develop it and fix a few holes in the bellows in the meantime, anyhow. The old guy I bought it from, Hans from Holland, is pretty cool -- ( Read more... )

Courtney and I went skydiving today. It was fun.


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My sister, Emma, gave birth to her daughter, Annalyse Grace F. at 3:25pm this afternoon.
Hooray! :D I'm an uncle!

I'm about to become an uncle.
Yay! :-)

I'm working away on my new site design and have completed most of the photo interface. Now I'm trying to scan all of the photos I want from their negatives (going through my folder of 1000+ negatives, scanning them, noting date etc and adding them to a database) but this scanner is absolutely hopeless. Not only is it amazingly show, it's very ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everybody.

My mother and I ventured to the other side of Brisbane today to have a look at that Jobo CPE-2 film and print processor. Of course, that means nothing to 98.7% of you, but anyway... I bought it and on the way home, we stopped in at Photo Continental and I bought some developer, fixer etc to try it out ( Read more... )