| I've moved, and no I'm not yet in the US. |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|05:03 pm] |
I've postponed my US trip for health and company reasons. No, not girl reasons. That was just very surprising and sudden.
I've moved out from my family place and into a little apartment in Daglish. The move is continuing slowly. I still have a lot of furniture to acquire somehow to make this more of a livable place.
I can't cook for myself - let alone other people - if I don't even have a kitchen table set to serve said food on.
Things are quiet and lonely. I'm not sure what to do about it.
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| Life's fun-ness.. |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|02:07 pm] |
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Today's happiness - eating spinach grown from my own garden. |
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| What am I doing wrong with Cacheboy? |
[Oct. 9th, 2009|09:48 am] |
I've had a reasonable amount of interest from people wanting to use Cacheboy as a "free CDN" but no real interest from anyone donating money, time, equipment, bandwidth or hosting services.
So the question is, what am I doing wrong, and why am I just not getting any assistance with this? |
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| AUSNOG |
[Sep. 1st, 2009|06:15 pm] |
As far as I can tell, my presentation about Cacheboy at AUSNOG went well enough. I've had some good feedback from people and a couple of offers of equipment/hosting/connectivity sponsorship which I'll follow up on shortly.
Now, figuring out how I can coax myself to sleep.. |
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| Moar hozpital |
[Aug. 29th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| [ | Current Mood |
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I checked out of the hospital this morning, armed with pain killers, local anaesthetics and a prescription for more.
The hospital time itself was fine. I didn't have a private room (I didn't mind); the food was edible (again, I didn't mind) and I couldn't help shake the feeling that the nurses had better things to do than look after me. But that they did, and I'm feeling slightly less painfully stabby compared to early on in the week.
But only time will tell whether I'll -actually- heal or not. I will simply have to take it easy this weekend and see.
The interesting/scary issue was almost fainting from the second hit of morphine. I suddenly felt weird, dull and detached; everything started sounding "numb". I said this and the poor nurse tilted my head back and called over a lot of other people. It turns out it wasn't an allergic reaction or anything - my heart rate just dropped below a helpful level. They moved me into a separate area with much, much more frequent monitoring and I was hooked up to a machine that went "bing" very often. (ObNote: My heart rate was quite happy sitting at 45-50bpm and any dip would trigger their monitoring machines.)
I clearly remember seeing one of the nurses trip over whilst looking at me - and I asked whether he was OK. They thought it amusing that _I_ was asking _them_ if they were OK. But then, think about it - they're the ones looking after me and not vice versa. I had a very vested interest in their wellbeing!
In any case that passed and I've been taking a cocktail of painkillers and waste disposal system medication since.
Besides that and the yellow extremities (but no yellow eyes, thankfully!) I think I've had enough excitement for one week. |
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| I is in hozpital |
[Aug. 27th, 2009|06:01 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Sydney | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sick | ] |
I'm in hospital now because of my haemorrhoids. I think being reduced to tears yesterday may have hinted to me that something was wrong.
It is only one external thing, but it is the size of my thumb and the shooting, stabbing pain is, quite honestly, crippling.
The doctors/surgeons here alternate between choosing surgery or not. The resultant fasting has been... interesting.
I have also started feeling funny after the second dose of morphine. This light headed, woozy feeling got me a trip to another ward where they kept close tabs on my heart rate and blood pressure. Seeing me rest heart rate below 50bpm was very, very strange.
The latest thing? Slight yellowing of my extremities. I'll keep an eye on things tonight to see if I get yellower.
This all puts a dampener on my plans here in Sydney. I have no idea whether I'll make the AUSNOG conference Tuesday. I'll almost certainly not make it to Sydney airport Saturday morning to meet Katie there. I've got a couple of days paid work I'll have to postpone.
I may not get better enough to fly to Perth next week for my 30th birthday - and Liu's 21st.
Grr. |
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| Going to Sydney; talking at AUSNOG. |
[Aug. 21st, 2009|01:38 pm] |
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| |  calm | ] |
I'll be presenting at AUSNOG in Sydney about my little open source CDN that I built. I have a 30 minute talk slot to fill (well, to not -over-fill.)
I'll also be in Sydney for two weeks from this coming Monday until the 3rd of September. Please drop me a line if you'd like to catch up. |
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| "Contributing to Nation" == "Play Sports" ? |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
Absolutely -not- quoting from the source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/18/2659570.htm
To quote the quote:
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Senator Joyce argued that sport makes a well-rounded university graduate.
"This is all about inspiring people to not just be completely centred on themselves but to enter into a format that encourages them, of their own volition, to participate in a wider community in such a way that you hope that their participation in that sport engenders them at a later time in their life to give back to our nation," he said.
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Surely going to -university- and studying to become a more -productive member- of society, potentially even contributing creative and novel new ideas to the body ofglobal knowledge is enough to give back to the nation?
Or is kicking around a football the only constructive way of doing so?
Thanks Senator! I won't ever be voting for you! |
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| Birthday |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|06:16 pm] |
I'm not going to have a 30th birthday. I've not had birthday's over the last few years anyway and for the most part, I get upset and start crying whenever I drink enough.
So please don't ask. |
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| Today's random thought: do certain projects attract crazies? |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|11:02 pm] |
Thinking about all the things right and wrong in this whole concept of the "United States of America"[1], one thing that I keep coming back to is this notion of "bearing arms.." ".. as part of a well regulated militia."
Is there actually any example(s) of well-regulated militias in the United States of America which aren't championed by crazies? Does it attract crazies like management attracts sociopaths? Ie, is the very nature of being involved in a militia today, considering the lack of real, tangible short-term threats to the day to day lives of citizens (contrast to say, people in "militias" throwing everything they can against the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico) only keeping people who are slightly .. uhm, crazy?
In the same way that say, open source projects attract and keep certain classes of people[2] ?
Etc, etc.
Discuss.
[1] - Just for the record, the more I read about what was attempted, the more I find myself identifying with a lot of the ideals that seem to be related to the political writings of that era. Anyway..
[2] - Eg, Adrian Chadd and all of the damned doomed open source projects I seem to be attracted to. Like Squid. |
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| Random friends' job searching project |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|01:54 pm] |
This shameless plug is brought to you by Caffeine, nature's metabolic enhancer.
A friend of mine has been working on a search engine to run through various IT job lists and link candidates to jobs. It cutely lets you cut/paste in a text resume for it to search on.
The site is here - http://www.oztechninja.com/ - and yes, in Google-esque tradition it is in beta. He would absolutely appreciate any and all feedback from people. Especially feedback relating to how relevant the search results are. |
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| Random thought of the day.. |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|06:15 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | randomthought | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  curious | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | trance | ] |
Today's random question: what effects do the current biological and sociological environments have on the pre-natal and post-natal development of children; and in the context of this, what effects would some of these environments (eg growing levels of obesity) have on a population over time?
Hm, how would one design a study, or a meta-study, to try and disprove this?
The seed of this was wondering what kinds of local environment adaptations get passed to the pre/post-natal infant as there's been some studies showing that there -is- some of this going on - eg http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/285/1/R271 . |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|09:31 pm] |
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Gah, I'm falling back into bad habits and I'm not sure what to do about it. |
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| UCC happenings today - screenings and such |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
I've brought some DVDs with me to (ab)use the very large plasma TV thats here with.
I'm currently watching Titan AE; I've got some Astroboy; Serenity/Firefly; and George Lucas' THX-1138.
Beetle Sashimi! |
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| UCC tonight - PS2 hackery |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|01:55 pm] |
G'day,
I'll be popping by UCC tonight with my PS2, PS2 Linux and related hackery stuff.
I'm going to try and setup a PS2 cross development environment on something (which isn't hard, ps2dev.org has that all sorted out (and it works under macosx 10.4 PPC! eww! :) and try to get some very basic software blitting working on it. This is my excuse for re-learning linear algebra after 15 odd years.
I'll probably be at UCC around 7pm. |
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| Cacheboy! |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|06:52 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
The Cacheboy CDN is now ~ 6 nodes, pushing out a total of 250mbit/sec at peak.
I'm currently responsible for around 2% of mozilla downloads and I think around 50% of videolan downloads. I'll have to verify that.
I'm going to leave it where it is until I get back to Perth (~ April 7); at which point I'm going to implement my replacement traffic distribution stuff and start better using the available bandwidth. I've got ~ 1gbit capacity available; I'm going to aim to run it at ~ 500mbit at peak until I get more donated mirror nodes. |
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| Firefox-3.0.7 release! |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|07:02 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
Firefox 3.0.7 has been released. There's a ~ 1% chance at the moment that you'll be pulling down you updates from my little CDN.
The big question is how much traffic it'll actually generate on the CDN. So far I'm pushing out around 105ish mbit across four boxes. That is quite a small amount of traffic compared to what I -could- be pushing, but I'm playing it (slightly) safe.
Tomorrow morning should be interesting - Europe wakes up in a few hours, followed by the United States. Hm! |
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| cacheboy reborn! |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|09:15 pm] |
I'm now mirroring Videolan and Mozilla downloads on my little CDN. Transfers so far, ~ 350gigabytes a day. A drop in the pond (only around 50-70mbit average during 24 hours) but quite good for testing out Lusca/Cacheboy and traffic routing algorithms.
I know I can push about 1000 times that, given enough hardware and connectivity.
Phase two - figuring out where the traffic is flowing to and organising equipment closer to those people. |
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