Part One of my Raspberry Pi adventures (so far)
Category: Fun
I recently spent a week in Amsterdam, attending the Novell BrainShare conference there. This visit to Amsterdam was unlike any I've made before: certainly unlike the last one, where I barely made it halfway from the airport to the city and was there for less than 40 hours. Firstly my arrival was disrupted by the … Continue reading Amsterdam trip report
We watched WALL-E the other day. A bit of trivia for Apple Mac fans (if you didn't already know) is that WALL-E's startup sound — heard when he's finished his solar recharge — is that of a post-1997 Mac computer (with Steve Jobs on the board of Pixar and Disney, WALL-E was never going to … Continue reading Classic Mac sounds on my mobile phone
I've written an XML app to display rain radar images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on the screen of a graphics-capable Cisco IP phone. It seemed like it would be simple to do, and I couldn't work out really why no-one had done it. Well it wasn't hard to do, but I can see … Continue reading BOM Radar for Cisco 7970
So I was catching up on the RSS feeds I subscribe to, and came across an article on the latest issue of Full Circle (a magazine about goings-on around Ubuntu Linux). In it I found an article on OpenTTD, an open-source clone of the old 90's game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. As one who spent many … Continue reading OpenTTD
I was using a fitness ball (swiss ball, exercise ball, gym ball, etc) to sit on in the study in lieu of a normal chair. I have to be honest and say that the experiment wasn't working for me (it was supposed to get me disciplined to keep straight posture while seated) and I was considering … Continue reading Another big bang
We returned from holiday a little while ago -- we spent a week in Melbourne to visit family and friends. While it wasn't Nicholas' first time on a plane, it was the first he was able to get involved in (being a couple of years older than his previous plane rides).He took to the plane amazingly … Continue reading Holiday
LIVE from Dicky Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, it's the Crossed Wires Holiday Show! Jokes aside (particularly at the name of the venue, which is actually named after a shipwreck... oh dear, not getting much better is it) we're on our "summer" holiday. Caravanning on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Beautiful... well, after the heat in the van's canvas annexe... … Continue reading Holiday time
My experiences with XBMC are still happy ones. I'm learning to live with its lockups (usually caused by me making vicious, unprovoked attacks on it by doing things like pressing buttons on the remote)... No, that's too harsh 🙂 In seriousness, I'm very impressed -- almost as impressed with it as I am with how much disk space … Continue reading More on XBMC — ‘Lets go to the movies!’
Having paid for the veejoe.net domain some time ago (got a fully sic deal as well, 5 years for the price of two, or something) I decided to finally do something about it. So, it's now the new (official) home of Crossed Wires. I'm hardly going to submit it to Google or anything like that, but … Continue reading New home for Crossed Wires
Crossed Wires 