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Windfalls
When I bought a flat on the ground floor, it was just because it looked a nice place to live, but it turns out there’s an additional benefit I hadn’t foreseen - windfalls. Whenever there’s a bit of a wind, I often get up in the morning to see strange new things lying around on my patio, things that weren’t there the night before. Usually if the ( Read more... ) -
Cook Islands photos posted
I’ve finished cataloguing and polishing, and have posted the best of my Cook Islands holiday photos to Flickr, in case anyone was wondering. -
Mmm, music.
It turns out that one of the other features of the Nintendo DSi I bought recently is ‘playing music’ - stick M4A files on an SD card, bung it in the DSi and you can play music as long as you’re not doing anything else. Yesterday I scraped together the few M4A files I had lying around, and this evening I rediscovered what a joy it is to stride down ( Read more... ) -
Flickr update, Nintendo edition
Although I didn't mention it in the previous entry, one of the things that got nicked along with my camera and my laptop was my Nintendo DS (luckily, the game that was in it at the time was a game I'd decided was a waste of time not hours before). On returning to Australia, I quickly upgraded to a shiny new Nintendo DSi, which (among other bullet- ( Read more... ) -
Buying a digital SLR
As mentioned previously, my trusty ol' mega-zoom all-in-one camera got nicked while I was on holiday, and now I'm in the process of choosing a replacement. My first thought was to find the latest revision of my old camera and buy that, but it turns out to have some serious chromatic aberration issues, and I'd rather not mess with that. Also, it's ( Read more... ) -
Videogame Mini-Reviews, part 1: Ridge Racer 4
I was never much of a videogamer until I stumbled across Insert Credit a few years ago (the site is now on indefinite hiatus; most of the forum traffic moved to Select Button and a number of the reviewers are now posting reviews at ABDN). I've always been interested in ( Read more... ) -
Where has Screwtape been?
I keep forgetting this place exists; alternatively, I keep thinking of things I might write up into posts someday, but never quite do. Ah well, such is blog.
A while ago, my parents inherited a sum of money and decided that the best ( Read more... ) -
Birthday time!
I now consider myself old-for-practical-purposes, even if I'm not technically old yet ( Read more... ) -
Typographical trivia
It turns out that, appropriately sized, Futura Bold set in all-capitals blends nicely PDF with Clarendon Regular set in all-lowercase. -
Nerding it up like a nerdy nerder
Today I got around to packaging up the BDF-font-handling Python library I've been sporadically tinkering with for the past few months, adding licensing information and actually telling the world about it. It turns out that it's actually pretty damn easy to do, once you've got your setup.py written. In about ten minutes, I'd created a PyPI record ( Read more... )