On the way home from Uni I dropped into the Apple store in the city – NextByte – for a bit of a browse. My resolve is weakening, but I managed to resist the lure of the iMacs – but only by distracting myself with an Airport Express that was just begging for someone to [...]

So, I’ve been idly poking at Backpack all day, loading various bits of data into it wherever I’ve figured they might be helpful.

I just discovered the coolest use of it.

Each page has a unique email address, and anything sent to that address is squirted straight onto the page. If your email has “note: [foo]” in [...]

I suck when it come to organisation – I always have. I’m trying to remedy that, though, and there’s a suite of online tools I’m finding kinda helpful. They’re from 37signals, a bunch of talented and visionary people. I see these tools as being part of the Web 2.0 revolution – the web as platform, [...]

From Wikinews: Particle accelerator reveals long-lost writings of Archimedes.
Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, California are analyzing a 174-page text. The book had originally contained a copy of Archimedes’ writings, but had been erased by a monk in the 12th century and reused as a prayer book. The particle accelerator is [...]

Creatures in my Head is a fantastic selection of quirky little characters. From the malicious to the woebegone, these illusory beasts come to life on the page – or screen – and are oddly compelling.

The store sells T-shirts, and I really want one of the Butter Knife Fight shirts. Tempting, tempting.

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I just wrote up a Ta-Da List (more about these later) covering ‘Topics I Must Remember to Blog About’.

And now I’m blogging about that. This has to be the height of recursion, or onanism, or something.

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Whether you’re designing a website or repainting your house, the Online Color Schemer is pretty handy. It lets you select from a colour palette and generates 16 toning and/or complementary colours, along with their RGB and hex codes; you can make the whole scheme darker or lighter, too. Quite nifty.

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prelude00 – photo by stephen dann

Brisbane was visited by a massive hailstorm yesterday. It rolled in around five in the evening, skies green and purple like a fading bruise. We drove home in the middle of it, watching lighting split the skies. It was absolutely gorgeous.

There’s a group on Flickr devoted to photos of it, [...]

I’ve posted about this before on my LiveJournal, but it’s been occupying a fair chunk of my brainspace lately, so here it is again.

The Loftcube project was developed by the Berlin Design Studio. It’s a portable living space that can be mounted on the top of flat buildings, constructed primarily from Corian and other modern [...]

One of my subjects this teaching period is GSN409 Organisational Behaviour 1. Most people abbreviate this to OB1, though I hadn’t given that much thought as I’d only ever been writing it, not saying it.

Until yesterday, when I chatted to some of the other students about the subject, and they kept referring to it by [...]

So, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith lands in cinemas this week, at long last.

I’m trying not to get my hopes up, I’m really not. So far the prequel trilogy has gone from bad to worse; Episode I was disappointing and Episode II was downright bad. The reviews of Episode III seem cautiously upbeat, so [...]

So, the house across the road from me isn’t there any more.

Now, I’m pretty oblivious about the outside world – there are days when I don’t actually see anything outside these four walls, and I’m fine with that – so for all I know, it could have been stolen away in the night by gnomes, [...]

“You’ll have a guest lecturer in week five, from the School of Economics and Finance – he’s really cool.”

What’s wrong with this statement? ;)

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From the tag of my “Original Pocket Umbrella”. All emphasis is theirs:Do not use in event of storm, hurricane, typhoon, or serious climatic disturbance.

If you do, your Original Pocket Umbrella may break and then you will be very upset!

Please remember the Original Pocket Umbrella is not a toy and you are not Mary Poppins. Do [...]