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Thursday 7 December, 2006 @ 22:19:50 by Cafuego
work / OSDC

I've been at OSDC for the past 2 days (one day to go) and it's been great!

Found out about some cool projects, about shiny things, about what goes on behind www.bom.gov.au, that perl is FAR more scary than I had ever feared possible, and about at least one way to save the business some money and make my life easier.

Monday 4 December, 2006 @ 14:18:50 by Cafuego
daily / schtuff

Try sakura tea - green tea with cherry leaves - it's nice.

Was given an official run-around today. A couple of extremely loud scrap metal merchants who use the strip of grass outside our house as their workplace found a fridge this morning. One started hacking at it with an axe until he managed to pop it and let all the gas escape in a large white cloud.

I'm pretty sure one isn't supposed to do that, so I called the EPA. They reckoned that one is indeed not supposed to make fridges pop and vent the gas, and suggested I call the Melbourne City council to report it.

The city council took a while to come up with the suggestion of calling the police, who in turn weren't certain at all whether an offense had been committed.

Sigh.

Friday 10 November, 2006 @ 19:03:33 by Cafuego
daily / vote

It's been a while and I've done a couple of exciting open source things, but I couldn't resist sharing my feelings about the US elections.

In one word: shadenfreude.

Thursday 31 August, 2006 @ 12:55:05 by Cafuego
daily / aaargh! 3

This time it's my wife's bike. The saddle is gone. Words fail me.