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I'm sitting here once again at the Boat Deck Cafe in Mawson Lakes Adelaide, this time with my room mate Kevin. It's 11:27am, there's sunlight streaming in, and I have a high speed wireless connection with a gigantic frothy cup of coffee.
Does it get any better than this?
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happy,
coffee,
cafe,
restaurant,
lunch,
computers,
wifi,
wireless
In follow-up to my previous post, Dave has officially released his blog to the welcoming public, which you can access at http://blog.davesphotogallery.net/blog. Looks very polished.
Welcome to my blog page, I decided that rather than having news on my website homepage which is only updated monthly, I would have somewhere that I could add to whenever i like. So any time I’m out and about taking pics I will add an entry to the blog and keep news a bit more up to date. I’ll be putting the occasional pic on as well as an example of what is on the main site and perhaps the occasional “almost” shots, so please keep checking back or just subscribe to the RSS feed.
I've added him to my blogroll ;).
david wares,
dave wares,
birling gap,
photography,
professional photography,
photos,
images,
nature,
wildlife,
scenery,
blog,
weblog
This website is fascinating to look through if you're intro retro consoles and home microcomputers. He's got the Sinclairs, Commodores, Apples, Ataris, Radio Shack machines… the list goes on, all with large, full colour photgraphs.
computers,
microcomputers,
consoles,
gaming consoles,
retro,
commodore,
amiga,
atari,
acorn,
radio shack,
classic,
1980s,
80s,
museum,
history
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10:00 – Rubens Monologue (Adelaide JetBus, real estate, con artists, um ah) shop review (GameTraders in Northgate), buying retro games (Flight Simulator for Windows 95, International Soccer cartridge for the Commodore 64), Rubenerd Forum (Mr Bunny, iTunes issues) and Mr Mad Player.
Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
With four WordPress powered websites now, updating each one whenever a new release of WordPress or any of the zillions of plugins I'm using come out it is really a huge undertaking! So this morning I'm going to try creating a new WordPress MU blog, moving the content from my four WordPress powered sites onto it. This may also help to address some weird RSS podcast feed issues too that Mr Bunny let me know about on the Rubenerd Forum.
So just to let you know there many some quirky blog behavior on the Rubenerd Show, the Rubenerd Blog, the Rubenerd Local site (intranet access only) and the University Chronicles of Ruben.
WordPress MU will let me administer and update each blog collectively, but the individual sites will still appear separate in your browser; don't worry I'm not merging it all ;). Wow, that would be a mess if I did that!
For those who want to give it a crack:
While they say its more than possible, they advise you back up all your data (of course) and…
While we play and test our products on OSX we think most folks on older equipment should stick with OS9 for now. Unless you have a compelling reason to run it, it can be an expensive update. While Apple has put a great interface on it, it still is a completely different OS (it really is BSD Unix you know) and will require you a fair amount of time to be comfortable using it. It has many benefits and features but many day to day tasks will actually run slower on it. On older systems, you still have the ability to boot back into OS9 and many of your OS9 programs will run under OSX in the emulation mode. It also may not work with your printers and scanners. We do not provide free support for systems that are user upgraded to OSX. Your system will run it. Just make sure you go into this with your eyes open. This is a major upgrade and it is unlike any upgrade you have done before.
Miyazaki Nodoka arty-wallpapery art-wallpaper from Negima!: Magister Negi Magi. She was the smart, shy one ;).
A collab between me and redxxii of MercurialDesign.net. It was quite a challange for the both of us, but we’re more than pleased with the result. Scenery outside was made by me, while he recged nodoka and did a lot of the inside work, followed by me pulling it all together and tweeks by both of us and here is the result :3
~ http://pixelatedgraffiti.animationalliance.net/negima.html
Available as wallpaper at 1024×768, 1280×960 and 1280×1024.
anime, manga, wallpapers, desktop backgrounds, nodoka, miyazaki nodoka, negima, magister negi magi
My university has bestowed an honours doctorate on the current South Australian premier, Dr Mike Rann. In the two party preferred system I easily vote Labor over Liberal, and if votes are anything to go by he's Australia's favourite Labor leader at the moment. Good on ya doc :D!
UniSA has honoured Premier Mike Rann’s contribution to the establishment of the University by awarding him the title of Honorary Doctor of the University of South Australia this week. The award was presented at the morning graduation ceremony on August 18 at the Festival Centre.
Professor Bradley said Premier Rann’s commitment to education as a key strategy in developing Adelaide as a creative, vibrant and successful community has been enduring.
“Premier Rann has supported the evolution of Adelaide as an education city and has been a strong advocate for a ‘South Australian education’ around the world. He has also encouraged and supported the notion of lifelong learning in the broader community.”
adelaide,
south australia,
mike rann,
unisa,
university of south australia
Rajesh Jain has posted about a fascinating article by Atanu Day regarding humans and our hardwired obsession with problem solving, whether those problems are existing natural complications or those that we can be credited for creating in the first place.
Compared to all other life forms in the known universe, our species can be characterized as the one that consciously solves problems. There appears to be at least in some specimens of our kind an inherent drive to not only solve problems but in fact to seek out new problems to be solved. Of course, some would argue that many of our attempts to solve problems in turn create new problems. That in itself is probably not such a bad thing because otherwise we would have little to occupy ourselves with. Confronting challenges natural as well as artificially created exercises our faculties and makes us feel alive and lends purpose and meaning to our existence.
I think that a simple taxonomy of problems would be useful. Type I class of problems are the ones that we are confronted with naturally and which we need to solve as a matter of practical importance. Examples of this class would be: how do we build a more efficient light source, how can we avoid global warming, how do we discover a vaccine, etc. In contrast to that, Type II problems are of no immediate practical importance and we “invent” these problems for various reasons, primarily curiosity and the drive to comprehend the universe around us. To be sure, down the line, the results of Type II problems could have practical implications; but to begin with they are not motivated by a desire to change the world. Examples of this variety: is there is a largest prime number, why is the sky dark at night (Obler’s paradox), do neutrinos have a zero rest mass, etc.
science, problem solving, atanu dey, rajesh jain, human condition
Since this blog started back in 2004 I've tried to keep the material here as generic as possible on the server side so in the future if I wanted to move to a new platform I'd be able to do so without a gigantic headache forming. Data independence.
Now that this blog has been around on WordPress for a while now and I'm very happy with it, I've decided to install some plugins to make administration easier, you can understand the logic. One thing I'm going to tinker with: Automatic Technorati Tags. Let's see how they work!
