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
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I held out for a long, long time. I'd even talked myself entirely out of getting one. Like they say in the classics though, "you think you've escaped, but they pull you back in". I now have a 32GB iPod touch and it's doin' alright, even though it took me nearly a week before I … Continue reading Living with an iPod touch
Newcomers to UNIX-like operating systems are often confused by the difference between the shell operations pipe and redirection. The difference is easily explained with an example, in the context of web development. The shell command echo "st=1" | ./lifeswork.pl shows how a pipe is used to supply command line input to a script usually invoked … Continue reading The difference between pipe and redirection
I was about to post about how pleased I was with Synergy in helping me tidy up my desktop clutter (by removing a keyboard and mouse from the surface). Ironically, I'm instead posting about a problem with the configuration that will cause me to throw it out and look for something else. Why the title? … Continue reading Security blows
To our beautiful baby girl, the warmest and fondest welcome! The post I made here last night was going to be a comment about how ironic it was that we didn't want to know our baby's gender and yet the time of the birth was known. Well as fortune would have it, I would have … Continue reading We finally meet K (a.k.a. Clinker)
Every one of us experiences life-changing events. Sometimes we're fortunate enough to know about them in advance. One such event will come tomorrow for my wife and I, with the scheduled arrival of our second child! All going well, I'll make an update here with news (and I'm veejoe on Twitter, so look out there … Continue reading Tomorrow is a Big Day
If you can read this, it means that Round 3 of my fight with my ISP is over and my ADSL is back up, which is a good thing because it means that I can tell you about why my ClustrMaps image has so many red dots on it suddenly...Every so often I found that … Continue reading Scourges of the Universe: Blog Spam, and ISPs
I had a failure of my Cacti system over the weekend, entirely caused by bad Gentoo emerges. Two different problems, both caused by bad upgrades of packages brought in from ~amd64 or ~x86, made Cacti colourfully dysfunctional for a couple of days.The first was an update to the spine resource poller, part of the Cacti … Continue reading Sometimes, Gentoo bites
So here I am in the Qantas lounge at Changi Airport after my the last day of my trip to Singapore. The education went well (lots of smiling farewells) and I've forged some links with the locals that I hope will be fruitful for all. I'm trying to get over the silly habit I've developed … Continue reading Heading home from Singapore
This week I'm in Singapore, running a training course on z/VM and Linux on System z. I really enjoy coming here! This is the first time I've done any kind of work here, and I'm enjoying fitting into the daily commute in another city!The weather here is, obviously, hot and humid. It's been far from … Continue reading Short trip to Singapore
Crossed Wires 