Author Archives: Raena

Voltron? Is that you?

Here’s my old place in Hobart. I can’t make out whether the poster in the right window contains Voltron or Optimus Prime.

Either way, that’s the good shit.

What?

I don’t really understand, but I like it very much. (hat tip: @NickHodge)

Fact

iPod/iPhone Twitteriffic shits all over the desktop one.

That is all.

Senator Conroy, you slacker

I wrote to Senator Conroy about the whole filtering thing in… January, was it? It was about the whole content filtering bollocks, and how I didn’t like how his use of language in some of his speeches about it basically implied that anyone who’s against it is OBVIOUSLY some kind of porn fiend. Six months [...]

Knitted toys

I’ve been doing quite a bit of knitting lately. This is especially nice for cold days like we’re having right now, when all I really want to do is sit on the couch in the warm. It feels less lazy this way!

Right now I’m making Ziggy from this pattern by Clare Taylor, which [...]

You want me to what, for how long?

Hello Adobe,

Yes, we all know how special and wondrous CS 3 is. We also know that if you’re serious about design etc then you’ll be using a Creative Suite and not some $30 piece of shareware, which is fine and fair enough too.

That DOESN’T make it OK for you and your hubris to impose [...]

Dear journalists

MySpace is not a blog. Facebook is not a blog. A website in general is not necessarily a blog. Forum threads and replies are not a blog. Commenters on a blog are not in fact bloggers themselves (this means YOU: Age, SMH) Just because it’s on the internet, doesn’t make it a blog. Blog blog blog blog blog blog. Blog blog.

Reasons why I put up with Twitter

Reasons I put up with Twitter:

The community

Reasons why I should not put up with Twitter

Not fucking working A LOT All alternatives suck more

That is all.

Overheard

stilgherrian: Excellent. The smell of cat’s piss is NOT coming from the file server. Problem scales down appropriately.

Colour palette from photos

Web-smart, too. This is made of awesome and win.

Young and modern

thats my Al pal!

Everyone by now can recognise the determined individuality of an Al Young painting. Dense visual information. Movement and spontaneity. Improvisation. Jarring colours. Marks so crudely applied as to be of a child’s hand. — stock

Sure seems secure…

Kim Cameron’s Identity Blog:

I got a new Toshiba Portege a few weeks ago, the first machine I’ve owned that came with a fingerprint sensor. At first the system seemed to have been designed in a sensible way. The fingerprint template is encrypted and stays local. It is never released [...]

Overheard

pureCaffeine: People complain about those “disconnected with real life” - 2nd/e-lives etc. Yet nothing of vacant-faced pedestrians off in their own world!

Nokia Music store doesn’t work on Macs, Firefox

Quoth the Nokia Music Store:

Nokia Music does not currently support the Mozilla Firefox (Mac OS X) browser on your operating system Supported systems are currently Microsoft Windows XP or Vista Supported browsers on the above systems are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above [...]

Blast from the past

Have you got a kitchen drawer full of dull knives that need sharpening? Thankyou very much, thankyou very very very much CHIPPIES SAO brings out the flavour of any food you savour! There’s chocolate, strawberry, ripple swirl and bubbleberry too! Feel it crumble and melt in your mouth! Double double cheese cheese burger burger please! Break a finger!

Attn: Mac noobs

How lovely, you have a shiny new Mac and I’m sure you’re finding all kinds of wonderful new surprises and things that don’t work the way you expected. So you shoot your mouth off at work/on a blog/on twitter/something else about how such-and-such is broken or doesn’t work or whatever.

Let me let you in on [...]

As seen in Fitzroy

nabbed with my hinky cameraphone:

So kwoot!

Where be the search?

With thanks to stilgherrian for the heads up:

Australia 2020, the meeting of the best and brightests whatever in our great wide brown whatever. It has a big pile of submissions. It has no text search that searches the fucking things. For real. Try out the ’site search’ for the word ‘imperative.’ It [...]

1249

that’s the number of spams deleted by Akismet since this blog got reshizzled. Crazy.

Tacky

Theme park adds up to Disney down under

Some of the world’s biggest and best adventure rides are proposed for the park, to be called African Safari World and set in the grounds of Werribee Open Range Zoo. Village Roadshow is behind the bid to create Australia’s first safari-themed adventure park, [...]