I shouldn't be allowed near cars.

A lot of my job is formalising peoples' work processes - generally taking their dodgy Excel spreadsheets that have been worked on by 20 people over 5 years, and turning them into a formalised database-based system - this gives them scalability, reliability etc. Along the way I come across some truly retarded Excel formulas ( Read more... )

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My friend MH's little terror crying machine gorgeous child is rapidly approaching her first birthday, so I figured this was a good excuse to make some toys. Toy making (at least, the way I do it) is great fun woodworking - it doesn't have to be incredibly accurate, doesn't matter if you gouge a few things with the router since the kid's going to ( Read more... )

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A random WA paddler runs a monthly mailing list of paddling news from WA and elsewhere, which is actually one of the best forms of communication for paddlers in Perth - which doesn't say much about Canoeing WA's organisational ability ( Read more... )

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Now that we've moved out to the boonies we decided it was easier to come home overnight than abuse zebra363's hospitality for two nights running, so here's a progress report. :)

In a word? Fast.

( Water! )

At last year's Descent, the DoW gauge at Walyunga was reading 55m3/s of water heading through. That was at 1m by the Walyunga stick.

Think about that number for a second - that's 55,000L of water every second. 55 tons.

A flood pulse went through York yesterday that bumped its level by more than 50m3/s to about 1103/s. That's the entire contents ( Read more... )

I've been pretty quiet about the Descent this year - I didn't start training until the rogaine was out of the way which means I'm fairly down on fitness, so I was just going to have a quiet year, take it as it comes and hopefully finish. But I just HAVE to wibble about this ( Read more... )