Getting Things Done

AJ have you consider the Getting Things Done methodology? There's even an Emacs mode implementing it! (Sorry, I don't know of a vim equivalent, which would be my preference)

All that to say that I don't actually use GTD (yet), as my prioritised TODO list in a paper (gasp!) diary works well. I might migrate to GTD though as it sounds interesting.

tech/projects | 25 Oct 2006 | #

cotd - Espresso Perfetto

The current favourite coffee in our household is Espresso Perfetto - Medium to Strong. Based on Cuban coffee, this blend gives a rich, sweet, full bodied cup in the perfect Northern Italian style, with the perfect lingering aftertaste.

coffee | 24 Oct 2006 | #

Atom complaints

So Russell complains thus "James Purser said I'm betting that your feed is an atom feed. We had the same problem on PLOA with Jeff and Pias feeds when they switched to atom. Planet needs to be upgraded. Well I am using an atom feed, so this probably explains it. Sorry for the inconvenience to the Planet Debian readers, I guess that things will stay the way they are until it is upgraded."

Now Russell, I do't want to have too much of a go, but when Jeff and Pia's problem arose, I upgraded p.l.o.a within about a week. Upstream only had proper support for Atom for about a month earlier that that anyway.

Anyone running an aggregator (p.l.o.a, Planet Debian, etc) is likely to have other interestes too - it's unlikely to be the main gig for anyone. It's just a service that is (normally) happily provided. So if you change to a new, (currently) less supported syndication format, you may find it takes a while for all the aggregation software installs to catch up. Afterall, this is a volunteer-run service - we could have dropped your feed until we had upgraded instead, y'know :-)

tech/linux-australia | 19 Oct 2006 | #

A new career? Not likely.

Last night I took Lavazza's Professional Barista course, and as a consequence I now can make Ristretto, Espresso, Dopio, Latte, Cappucino, Avogatto and other delicious coffee combinations. The only problem is that I consumed far too much caffeine - meaning zero sleep last night ;-(

No, this isn't a change of career - it's just another step fulfilling Michael's First Law:

"The day you stop learning, is the day you start dying."

coffee | 19 Oct 2006 | #

LinuxSA October 2006 - Building an Open-Source Segway(R)

  Time for the LinuxSA October Meeting announcement (it was yesterday :-(

  The usual details:

   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 17th October, 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:

   Geoffrey D. Bennett will be presenting a talk on how to build an
   open-source Segway(R):

     Building a self-balancing scooter like the Segway(R) has
     previously been shown to be "not actually very hard" by Trevor
     Blackwell.  I have replicated his experience by building my own
     two-wheeled self-balancing ride-on robot using only off-the-shelf
     parts, and open-source hardware and software.  Some info, a video,
     and source can be found here:
     http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/

     The presentation will go through how my scooter was built and the
     theory and practicalities of keeping it upright, along with a
     demonstration.

  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 | 18 Oct 2006 | #

Places other than Schaumburg exist?

Wow! Places other than Schaumburg, IL exist.

I think you'd almost have to have lived there to understand :-)

travel/chicago | 18 Oct 2006 | #

The Latest Distraction

My latest distraction is a Rancilio Silvia coffee machine with matching Rocky conical burr grinder. It arrived on Wednesday last week, purchased over the net from Coffee for Connoisseurs in Melbourne - these guys are great! Not only do they thoroughly test the machine before sending it out, they set the grinder to an appropriate setting, and include lots of free coffee to get you started. I'd certainly buy again from them!

Now is where all the fun starts - adjusting the grind, the tamp, temperature, volume of water, preinfusion, bean flavour, all in persuit of the perfect repeatable cup of coffee. Yum!

(BTW, good coffee certainly helps while reviewing the very large volume of wonderful paper submissions to linux.conf.au 2007 that I'm trying to wade through right now.)

coffee | 01 Oct 2006 | #