Blog entries from September, 2004

It has now been a whole year since I started this blog.

I really should post more often…

Today, only four months after buying the case, I got around to moving Shaun, my main windows box, into a new case. It is part of a long term plan to move Preston, my media storage box, into the case now vacated by Shaun as it has space for plenty of drives…

I have just managed to finally finish my paper on the Monash Research Directory for the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2004 later this year. Originally the final draft of the papers were due on the 6th of September. This was extended to the 13th and then left a bit open ended…

At least I can finally get around to rebuilding shaun…

Over the past few days the shifting of the rear gears had become erratic and finally halfway home tonight stopped working altogether because the cable had parted from the end bit inside the shifter. So for the remainder of the ride I was relegated to three gears…

If wouldn’t have been so bad except that the exact same thing happened not so long ago…

Last week I placed, on a whim, a bid for all thirty-two episodes of Thunderbirds on DVD. I ended up having the winning bid and I picked them up from the post office this morning. Now to find time to watch them all…

Tonight I travelled into the city for the September Melbourne Perl Mongers meetings. It was pretty good except for the fact that as I stepped off the tram at the top of Elizabeth St it started pouring with rain…