L Glass

After this past weekend I'm now the proud owner of some L glass, the Canon EF 70-200 f4 lens.

I then spent a couple of hours at the zoo, playing with my new toy. Some samples will be coming soon to ploon. All I can say is that I agree with the online reports - once you've used L glass, there's no looking back :-P Fast, Sharp, Light-weight, Not-too-expensive. Love it!

/photos | 28 Mar 2006 | #

LinuxSA March 2006 - git: the stupid content tracker

  Time for the LinuxSA March Meeting announcement (it happened 3 days ago :-(

  The usual details:

    When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
            Tuesday, 21st March, 2006
    Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
            of South Australia (SSABSA)
            Boardroom (1st floor)
            60 Greenhill Road
            Wayville SA
    Cost:   FREE
    Who:    Anyone and everyone.
            No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

    Paul Schulz will be giving a talk on "git - the stupid content
    tracker[1]":

    What is it? What does it do? How can 'git' improve the way I write
    and contribute to Free and Open Source software?

    If you are interested in the answers, come along to LinuxSA[2] and
    find out about another program that Linus wrote.

    References:
      http://git.or.cz/ - A good introduction
      http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi
                        - A gitweb listing of projects at kernel.org

    Notes:
      [1] - Not "GNU Interactive Tools"
      [2] - GitSA?

  Pizza:

    After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
    Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

    Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
    Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
    Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
    IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

/tech/LinuxSA | 23 Mar 2006 | #

offlineimap - where hast thou been?

So after years of prodding, I finally started using offlineimap (as packaged in Ubuntu Multiverse).

Wow! Very cool, very powerful. I can't believe I delayed using this for so long. Managing 000's of messages is now much easier - especially on the road.

/tech/linux | 14 Mar 2006 | #

Flagr - local knowledge sink

Flagr - more Google Maps fun. Find places recommended by others.

Problem is, how do you stop abuse? How do you prevent a call centre full of monkeys polluting the system with over-priced, ecologically unsound, ethically challenged business franchises? How do you guarrantee that only local genuine knowledge gets into the system? And why is this looking like another Orkut wannabee?

/tech/misc | 07 Mar 2006 | #

eXtreme Programming Overview

While trying to find an online version of the famous Kent Beck quote for a team member:

       "Make it run, make it run, make it fast, make it small"

I found the following XP Overview quite handy.

/tech/code | 07 Mar 2006 | #