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As I walked to the bus stop this afternoon I saw an Australian Airlines 767-300 fly low overhead, descending towards Sydney Airport. I can find no scheduled flight for that time of day, so I wonder if the plane was arriving for maintenance, or to be repainted. I will miss the Australian Airlines colour scheme…

When I'm feeling tired, sick or frustrated, or, as is the situation tonight, a combiination of all three the solution is often to play some music. I sit down at my Yamaha PSR-400 electronic keyboard and play. A real piano would be better, but the PSR-400 has lasted me for 14 years now as a…

I finished cutting the DVD of the photos from April's trip to Japan, something I've been meaning to do for a while. I divided the photos into the separate locations (flight across, Nara, Takayama, etc) and used Picasa's create movie function to generate movies from the sets of photos. I found that the best compromise…

We use Drupal as the basis for our intranet at work. With time we noticed that it took longer and longer to load individual pages. Part of the problem was tracked down to the number of url aliases in use: around 1500. The majority of these had been generated using the pathauto module.  Apparently the…

I'm seriously frustrated by work at the moment. I am supposed to be working for a world leading ICT research centre, yet I am being told that our intranet should be using technology from 2000 and before. My boss wants static web pages so he can tweak every little bit of appearance (using <font> tags,…