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Leading Geeks on Library Thing You've all seen the IT crowd - where a technically inexperienced new manager - albeit with great interpersonal skills - is put in charge of a cynical, often disorganised IT team. Chaos - and humour - ensue. In the real…
Finally! It took over 3 months on needles, but the Adult Ribbed Lily, based on Georgie Hallam's Oriental Lily pattern, is finally finished - and the results are just lovely. For this project, I chose Yarn Barn's 8 ply merino in Teal, bought at the…
At BarCampMelbourne I had the opportunity to present about Anki, a flashcard system that I've been using to great effect to help study for my Masters'. The presentation was done in Inkscape and Sozi. BarCampMelbourne 2012 Presentation (SVG, 665Kb)
My sister recently bought herself an ASUS gBook A1050. It's a pretty low-powered netbook, with around 2GB of DDR RAM, running Android 2.2 (Froyo). After trying to install a number of applications on it - to no avail - I rebooted the machine and when…
Although there's lots of amazing presentations at linux.conf.au, it's also the people and passion involved that makes it such an amazing event. People One of the great conversations I had at linux.conf.au 2012 was with Paul Fenwick, around human interactions. We all have different communication…
Based on my experiences helping on the Software Freedom Day Melbourne team for several years, and the successful BarCampGeelong, I responded to linux.conf.au's Call for Papers (CfP) with an outline of a talk around running outstanding events in the free and open source software community…
OK, so finally some time to do some enjoyable things! Yay! - Location: You Yangs ETA arrival: around 2.30pm, should be done by 4.30pm - Route: East-west walk, roughly 2 hours duration - Equipment: My hiking shoes (which STILL aren't properly worn in, grr), 2L…
So, I love using VLC Media Player on both Windows and Linux to watch media. However, VLC doesn't have a built in tuner for my DVB-T device (in my case a Gadget Geek USB HDTV tuner). This meant that if I wanted to watch DVB-T…
Ada Lovelace Day has come around again, and although Donna Benjamin was profiled in brief for last year's post, this year I'd like to dedicate several more virtual column-inches to covering her achievements and notability as an inspirational woman of technology. Service as a mentor…
This year's Melbourne-based Software Freedom Day event took a low-key approach, in stark contrast to last year's award-winning affair. Hosted by Linux Users Victoria at The Hub in Docklands, the day kicked off with a BBQ (with opensauce - props to Lev Lafayette for a…