Archive for June, 2006



Need some cuteness in your life?

Sunny and Toffee will be homeless for four weeks in July and August, while Jess and I are away on holiday. Would you like to have them stay with you for some or all of that time? We will check them into a guinea pig hotel if necessary, but we’d much rather them stay with […]

After legally parking her car to go to the hairdressers, Shirley Hatcher returned to find a disabled parking bay had been painted around it and she had been given a ticket. Python's rampaging "Keep Left" signs come to mind.

RRR Interview MP3

My interview about SitePoint and our new AJAX book is available for the next four weeks in MP3 format on the Byte Into It web site.
More permanently, you can also grab it here: RRR AJAX Interview (MP3, 10MB).

Talkin’ AJAX on RRR

I’ll be appearing on RRR’s Byte Into It tonight (102.7FM in Melbourne) between 7PM and 8PM to talk about AJAX and plug SitePoint’s latest book, Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications. There is a podcast feed for the show, or you can just download the episode from the archive if you prefer. I’ll mirror it […]

iDon’tChatGay

I have received an alarming number of instant messages from bumpy, tanned men interested in “cam fun” over the past few days. What at first seemed like an increasingly improbable coincidence has at last been explained: someone has posted my AOL Instant Messenger screen name on a gay chat web site, iChatGay.com (NSFW).
Though I know […]

It’s Impro Season Again!

After the long summer hiatus, Melbourne’s improvised comedy season is back in full swing! The Impro Cave starts up this Sunday, June 18th at 7:30PM and runs every Sunday night through August.
If you want to come and see me, you’ll need to get off your butt because I won’t be around for much of the […]

Like a good nerd, I spent my Saturday installing the latest pre-release operating system on my computer. Having bought a 64-bit processor several years ago, now, I figured it was about time to try running a 64-bit operating system on it, so I downloaded the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Beta 2.
The insallation went reasonably […]

With this update, the southeast of Melbourne is now in high-resolution, as is Jess's home town of Hamilton!