October 2005 Index

Mon Oct  3 Geek desktop search as it should be 12:10
One of the more annoying things about Epiphany when I first started to use it was the lack of hierarchical...
Wed Oct  5 Geek reiteration 07:25
Some days, it seems like all I ever do is loop over the contents of an iterator. Sigh....
Fri Oct  7 Geek more release party madness 12:26
Hot on the heals of the GNOME 2.12 release party, here comes the Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" release party! See...
Life u.s. president admits hearing voices in head 14:59
Great.The leader of the free world is schizophrenic....
Mon Oct 10 Life who's your daddy? 15:58
Hurricane Katrina hits the United States, killing more than 1,200: the Australian Federal Government donates $A10,000,000. The Kashmir earthquake hits...
Tue Oct 11 Life dream job 09:19
Excellent! I was just spammed with an offer for what appears to be my dream job: > We are looking...
Fri Oct 14 Life music you have not (yet) heard of 17:22
For that Adelaide sound, see Little Ice Age. I just picked up their EP from Big ★ (while I did...
Sat Oct 15 Life not in /my/ backyard 13:15
So it seems the Federal Government is now trying to build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. I...
Sun Oct 23 Geek baz branch-fu 14:45
So I have been using baz, a usable implementation of the GNU Arch version control protocol, for my local development...
Mon Oct 24 Life a culture of animal cruelty 18:54
We live in a culture of animal cruelty and I, for one, blame the parents of our children for the...
Tue Oct 25 Food new adventures in avocado pasta 20:13
Spurred by Martine's ability to create a tasty avocado pasta using nothing more that a few gin and tonics and...
Fri Oct 28 Life coming soon to a cinema near you 11:13
I have just had the best movie plot idea evar!!11!!. Here's the spiel: They are a class of jocks who...