Irreverently irrelevant.
Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research agency. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, karate, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc.
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Image galleries and document management
I really like Gallery2, PHP/MySQL web-based image gallery software, especially the ease by which you can upload photos from your desktop PC. Unfortunately, this web host only supports a shared installation of version 1. I tried installing it on the Windows IIS server last week, but only got a blank screen for my efforts. As…
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Sunday is not for programming
It's Sunday and I don't feel like writing PHP code. Right now I'm bored of writing code that does the same old thing everytime. Check user credentials, query database, insert record, update record, delete record, list records, output stuff. I'm sure there are frameworks that make it even easier, but I don't have the time…
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Melbourne Cup Madness
It's not all work at work. This afternoon the race that stopped the nation stopped Marsfield as well, as we sat down for a catered lunch of chicken and ham and watched the horse race on TV's setup around the canteen. The theme was blue and white, but our table decided instead on a Monty…
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Sydney’s Ugliness
I strongly agree with Elizabeth Farrelly's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald on why Sydney is such an ugly city. I have lived in Sydney longer than in my birthplace of Melbourne and there are places in Sydney I have find beautiful. Some, like the Harbour Bridge up close or the CBD as viewed from…
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Five years ago…
It's difficult to believe that five years ago I was sitting in a Qantas 747 approaching Bangkok airport on my way to Paris, my just-married wife right besides me. That was a perfect honeymoon after a perfect wedding. Last night we celebrated with a meal at Restaurant Larousse at Brighton Le Sands. Excellent meal and…