He’s Just Had Coffee

Chris Caines quoted me today and it made me smile.

I seem to have a job. I started on Monday at NICTA working on the Braccetto project with my old friends Markus and Gregor. The job’s part-time and on a six month contract. We’re building table-top collaborative applications for people trying to get crucial things done. The project’s a collaboration between clever people at CSIRO and […]

So, yeah… « Order of Santa Ignora: Everyone’s praying for the victims and their families, and you know, that’s a good thing. Prayer good. I’m firmly on the side of prayer. News shows and blogs are all beatifying the people who were on the wrong end of the gun, and demonizing the person who […]

A few of my friends and family heeded my request to let me know what they think of me. Here’s an early version. You can see a more up-to-date version by clicking the link at the bottom. That page also has links to explain where this kind of psychograph came from. If you think you know […]

So… I never actually made it to an internet cafe… too busy eating I’m back in Sydney, gradually catching up. I have a lot of pictures which will leak into Flickr over the next couple of weeks. I had an awesome time.

I’m off tomorrow to Kuching (somewhere near here), to spend a week before and a week after Chinese New Year with Anthony’s family. This is the first time we’ve had a chance to visit them for about two and a half years, so it’s going to be great to go back. Last time I was […]

Mornings are a fragile time. One of the ways I’m trying to adapt my practice to stay more balanced is to create a more tranquil morning and even a more tranquil working environment most of the time. Version 1 is a set of practices, some in my computer, some in physical space to establish and […]

Two quotes from “Angels In America” that I’m very fond of: “In this world there’s a kind of… painful progress… longing for what we’ve left behind and… dreaming ahead. At least, I think that’s so.” - Harper Pitt, “Angels in America” “The body is the garden of the soul” […]

Those last couple of months seemed madly busy. It’s such a grace to have the time each year to just run away for a couple of weeks over Christmas. I’ve come back to just as long a ToDo list as I left, but with some determination to improve my praxis in a few ways: Make more time […]

Everything seems alright. If your Markdown plugin stops working and you’ve just switched to PHP5 and MySQL5, try upgrading… kind of obvious…

Thanks to various people who let me know that my blog went odd over the Xmas holidays. Our server shifted to PHP5 and it seems to have left one of my Wordpress plugins in poor shape. It’s deactivated while I source an upgrade and find a few minutes out of unpacking from our roadtrip to […]

There’s a lot going on right now. Exactly the kinds of things I should be blogging about. But I’m too busy doing to reflect. Instead, let me tell you about the guy who just left my house. A few weeks ago, I heard a tiny knocking noise in the bannister of our internal stairs. I […]