dubh...self-indulgent crap from someone who should know better...Spuds- September 28, 2002 The first row of spuds went in this afternoon. Very rustic of us (especially the bit where I dug out our very sulphurous and rat infested compost heap for fertiliser), but come December or so it'll be well worth it, sweet yellow Desirees and a salad with a barbecued steak on the deck as the sun sets... ahhhh...http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dubh/2002/09/28.html#a71 blossom- September 28, 2002 It's a nice time of year. Several days in the last week have had that sort of spring warmth that makes me feel optimistic again. Our cherry tree put on its usual fine display.It's past its best now (the picture is from last week) and at the moment the lawn is covered in a blizzard of downed petals - "rough winds doth shake the darling buds" of September and all that.http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dubh/2002/09/28.html#a69 Blogs in the Media- September 17, 2002 In the tradition of people who blog (we seem to need lots of external validation), I offer here not one but three links to news stories in the local (NZ) media about blogging. We have two main newspaper groups in this country, and both of them chose this week to take notice... of a sort. "Bloggers are everybody" says Stuff. It's not a bad article by one of the Dominion Post's journos. Meanwhile the New Zealand Herald blathers on about people silly enough to mention their work life in their...http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dubh/2002/09/17.html#a68 Pre-school fandom- September 15, 2002 The big event of today was this: There's more to be said over on "Bella"'s pages, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the concert. The Wiggles are just fantastic: consummate professionals, ace musicians, and generally top blokes. And my daughter loves them. Good enough for me any day. Interestingly, pre-school fandom doesn't seem to be much different from teenage fandom (or older fandom for that matter). There's the screaming. There's the tears. There's the irrational desire...http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dubh/2002/09/15.html#a67 Spoiled- September 13, 2002 I've been spoiled. At work we need to test a variety of platforms and browsers for our customers, and to that end we recently rented a new iMac for a month. I've always wanted one of these and now... well... let's just say that my existing Macintosh doesn't quite cut it anymore. MacOS X is beautiful, and there is untold hours of potential geeky tinkering with all that underlying Unix stuff. I gave up Linux because it was just too hard... but with OSX none of the stuff I learned in my months..http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dubh/2002/09/13.html#a62 |