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LCA 09 Conflicts

Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:27pm CET by James Purser

pSigh looks like this LCA is going to be just like the last one I went to, full of scheduling conflictsnbsp;:)/p pOn the a href=http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/mondayfirst day/a of Miniconfs we have the Business Stream, a MythTV stream and a DB stream./p pOn the a href=http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/tuesdaysecond day/a of Miniconfs we have the second day of the DB stream, the Sys Admin stream, Multimedia and Virtualisation./p pThat's not even counting the main conference itself which has things like a href=http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/40?day=wednesdayPHP Architecture, Scalability, and Security/a, a href=http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/43?day=wednesdayUsing Asterisk for Fun and Profit/a and a href=http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/112?day=wednesdayIntroduction to Django/a all in the same session times!/p pSigh./p
Sweet Potatos, Tomatos and YAJZ

Posted: December 28th, 2008, 11:50pm CET by James Purser

pI haven't blogged in a little while, so I thought I would do a quick update on the Garden./p pFirst up we have our Cherrynbsp;Tomatos which are just about ready to pick:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/3144785773_1b746854e6_m.jpg //p p class=rteleftSeeing as Ms 3 is our resident Tomato fiend, she'll have the honour of picking the first batch./p p class=rteleftNext we have an update on the Sweet Potato. As you can see it seems to have been a successful planting. The greenery is running riot and there are plenty of roots coming off the old sweet potato:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/3145610332_e8533c15f7_m.jpg //p p class=rteleftAnd finally, it wouldn't be a garden report without YAJZ (Yet Another Jumbo Zuchinni):/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/3144764317_104323caa7_m.jpg //p
More Gems

Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 12:11am CET by James Purser

pHaving three kids, you are always going to hear some wierd and wonderful things and these past seven days have not been any different./p pYesterday I was having a quot;discussionquot; with mr 10 about his behaviour and the subject of presents at christmas time came up. He was confident that he would be recieving presents, no matter what his behaviour, when his sister miss 5 decided to pipe in with quot;You should listen to daddy, he went to school with Santa!quot;./p pThis however was not the funniest thing we heard from our flock of kinder. A few days ago, we were leaving Wollongong Hospital after visiting Karins dad (who had a stroke last monday, while he's been laid low, it's not as bad as it could have been), and we got stuck at the lights. Karin rocked the car back and forth on the plate in an effort to hurry up the lights. Miss 3 got very cranky when we didn't immediately start driving off and said so quot;What are we waiting for, a stop go party? Get moving!quot;/p pGot to love kids :)/p
LCA 2009 - Are You Going?

Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 12:19am CET by James Purser

pHey guess what, in less than a month one of the best tech conferences in the world is going to be happening in a href=http://linux.conf.auHobart/a, are you going to be there? I know I am./p pI've been to LCAnbsp;once before and I have to say it was pretty damn impressive. The gathering of minds and the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the brightest people in our community is almost priceless. Combine that with the fact that it's going to be in the only State I haven't actually been to/lived in, and I couldn't resist./p
Grassroots E-Democracy

Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:39am CET by James Purser

pquot;If you live in the Kensington area of the Randwick Local Government area, you should be recieving a pamphlete informing you of the launch of a new site - a href=http://kensotraffic.com.au/kensotraffic.com.au/a, specifically put together to both get information out to the public about the ongoing issues of traffic and transport in the Kensington area, and to get feedback from the residents.quot;/p pOriginally posted here: a href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/kensotraffic.com.auhttp://collaborynth.com.au/blog/kensotraffic.com.au/a/p pYup, we've put out another one :)/p pYou know what I like about my line of work? Taking tech like Plone and being able to bend it to what I or my client needs it to do. Even better, it let's me indulge one of my great passions, democractic development. kensotraffic.com.au might seem to be about a very local issue in only a very small part of a big city, however to be honest, it's these single issue projects that are going to be the great drivers of E-Democracy in the future./p
Planting A Sweet Potato

Posted: December 6th, 2008, 1:18am CET by James Purser

pa href=http://rainbowspots.com.auKarins/a Grandmother gave us an old piece of sweet potato she found in the back of her cupboard. It had started to sprout so she thought we could do something with it. quot;Wellquot;, I thought, quot;Why not?quot;/p pThe first thing I did was check to see if it was still viable. I used the incredibly scientific method of chucking it in the old compost heap (the one the pumpkin vine is growing out of) and then checking on it a week later to see if there was any new growth. When I checked it this morning, there were new buds, so onto the next stage./p pstrongPlanting the Potato/strong/p pI have a few old tyres left over from setting up the herbs, cherry tomatos and potatos so I grabbed one and set it up next to the lemon tree:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3085038037_13ede42d3b_m.jpg style=width: 270px; height: 203px; //p p class=rteleftI layered old newspaper underneath to prevent any of the grass underneath from getting into the tyre. Next I needed to fill it up with soil/compost:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/3085044537_635186e566_m.jpg style=width: 273px; height: 205px; //p p class=rteleftNext up I built a layer of mulch using week old grass clippings that had been sitting in the now fallow middle garden bed. This will not only help to retain moisture in the soil, but should help to kill off any weeds:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3278/3085886266_915e298749_m.jpg //p p class=rteleftNow that we have the bed setup, we need the actual sweet potato. I dug a hole in the middle of the bed, down about ten centimetres and put the potato in with the new buds pointing up:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/3085050189_3856ea7b73_m.jpg //p p class=rteleftBefore I covered it back up with the grass and soil I applied a very liberal dose of diluted liquid manure:/p p class=rtecenterimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/3085897500_8f65d7c911_m.jpg //p p class=rteleftSo that's it. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. Would be nice to have some sweet potato to go with our zuchinni slice :)/p
A Foundation Film

Posted: November 29th, 2008, 10:22pm CET by James Purser

pa href=http://sffmedia.com/films/science-fiction-films/257-will-asimovs-foundation-saga-be-lord-of-the-rings-in-space.htmlOh god no/a!/p pem'Shaye said, ldquo;our idea is to renew the worldwide audiencersquo;s appetite for the storyrdquo; but he added that it is a complex novel, quot;this is not a script you can knock out in six months.quot;'/em/p pI'm sorry, but epic fail right there. The first foundation book was not a quot;complex novelquot;, rather a collection of short stories spanning a good couple of hundred years in the development of the Foundation from its origins in the Galactic Encyclopedia through to the beginning of it's march towards Second Empire./p pAlso a href=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47372this/a makes me want to avoid this like the plague that it could be:/p pemquot;font size=2 face=arial color=#000000Shaye and Lynne's goal is to adapt the first book for now, and, if it's successful, potentially follow the New Line quot;Lord of the Ringsquot; template by developing adaptations down the road of the second and third books.quot;/font/em/p
Business News - Another Webinar

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 4:13am CET by James Purser

pWell my history with webinars is now 1:1 bad vs good. The last one I did was to introduce a few Local Government people to a new service that I am running. It went quite well, so I'm going to tempt fate once again and I'm going to be running another webinar about a href=http://collaborynth.com.au/webinars/Open_Source_And_Local_GovernmentOpen Source and Local Governments/a next Monday at 11:00amnbsp;AEDST./p pI'll be using the a href=http://dimdim.comdimdim/a web presentation service. It's flash/java based, however it also has an a href=http://dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_source_community_edition.htmlOpen Source/a version of the server that I've been playing with./p pIf you're interested or know someone who is interested in watching the presentation, please feel free to shoot them the link above./p
That's a Big Zuchinni

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 8:03am CET by James Purser

pOur Zuchinni's are finally getting to the point where we can harvest them, and below is the biggest one :)/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamespurser/3057383517/img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/3057383517_7527c516d0.jpg?v=0 alt=Big Zuchinni style=width: 328px; height: 246px; //a/p pI've also started using the liquid manure I've been brewing. It's a foul smelling, dark green liquid, but it should be full of planty goodness. I would put a photo up here, but it's not exactly the most appealing sight./p
Winter Can Go Away Now

Posted: November 23rd, 2008, 3:18am CET by James Purser

pI'm sitting here, it's the middle of November and I am seriously considering whether we need to put the heater on. This is nuts./p pNot only but also, I'm a little concerned about the effect that the high winds are going to have on the veggies, especially the foot long zuchinni that's been growing nicely. If it survives, I'll post some photos./p
Holywood - Do Something New For A Change

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:03am CET by James Purser

pI've just finished watching the a href=http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h.480.movsecond trailer/a for the new Star Trek movie and it's about as bad as I thought it would be./p pWe're not talking about going where no man has gone before anymore. We are firmly in the quot;re-imaginingquot; space. God I hate that term./p pI'm sorry, I must be getting old and set in my ways, but I prefer to see new things and new ideas rather than watching someone responsible for the travesty that was Cloverfield quot;re-imaginequot; Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy./p
A Few Garden Photos

Posted: November 15th, 2008, 12:04am CET by James Purser

pAs promised in the last post here are some photos of the growing green type things:/p pimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/3029974497_456e611c91.jpg?v=0 alt=Baby Capsicum style=width: 250px; height: 187px; /nbsp; img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/3030807038_436355070a.jpg?v=0 alt=Cherry Tomato Flowers style=width: 248px; height: 186px; //p pimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3172/3030818266_06217a2353.jpg?v=0 alt=Eggplant Flower style=width: 249px; height: 186px; /nbsp; img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/3029999683_9834813a36.jpg?v=0 alt=Lettuce style=width: 248px; height: 186px; //p pEnjoy :)/p
The Meme of the Book

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 3:56am CET by James Purser

pWell a href=http://jon.oxer.com.au/blog/id/292 target=_blankJoxer/a has done it and so has a href=http://www.cafuego.net/2008/11/14/blog-meme-42 target=_blankcafuego/a, so here's mine:/p pFirst the instructions:/p ul linbsp;Grab the nearest book./li linbsp;Open it to page 56./li linbsp;Find the fifth sentence./li linbsp;Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions./li linbsp;Donrsquo;t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST/li /ul pAnd now the result:/p pquot;He produced a length of shiny black wood from the ragged pocket.quot;/p pFrom Terry Pratchett's quot;Jingoquot;./p
I Love The Smell Of Fresh Compost

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 1:20am CET by James Purser

pI was forking some compost onto our garden beds just now and I got a whif of that beautiful moist earthy smell that comes with well cooked compost. Some of you might remember from when you were kids and mucking around in the backyard in the morning, before the dew had burnt off the grass, it's that kind of smell./p pMight take some photos for the next post, got a couple of good zuchinnis coming up./p
OSOTA 2008-11-07 Cracks 100

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 4:49am CET by James Purser

pWell the last episode of Open Source Onnbsp;The Air is now sitting at 124 downloads since it was released, which isn't bad./p pIf you haven't caught it already you can grab the show from the following:/p pa href=http://osota.fosscasts.org/audio/download/54/ep_2008_11_07_hi.mp3 title=2008-11-07 MP3 High target=_blankMP3 - High/a/p pa href=http://osota.fosscasts.org/audio/download/52/ep_2008_11_07_low.mp3 title=2008-11-07 MP3 Low target=_blankMP3 - Low/a/p pa href=http://osota.fosscasts.org/audio/download/55/ep_2008_11_07_hi.ogg title=2008-11-07 Ogg High target=_blankOgg - High/a/p pa href=http://osota.fosscasts.org/audio/download/53/ep_2008_11_07_low.ogg title=2008-11-07 Ogg Low target=_blankOgg - Low/a/p
Reviving An Old Shirt

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 7:20am CET by James Purser

pWith the current focus on the dodgy ISP Filtering plans of the Labor Government, I thought I would revive an old shirt I did during my abortive run for the Senate./p pa href=http://www.cafepress.com/jamesfunnystuff.226429685img width=200 height=200 src=http://images5.cafepress.com/product/226429685v7_350x350_Front.jpg //a/p pCould probably do with some work but it's there if anyone wants to wear their feelings on their chest./p
Crops Are a Coming

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 6:24am CET by James Purser

pYou know, for our first effort at this vegie gardening lark we haven't done too badly. We've learnt lessons along the way and will certainly be preparing a bit more for the winter season, however given the crop we've got coming up, we can hold our heads up high. So far we've got the following coming to crop:/p ul liZuchinnis - Black, Golden and other/li liSquash of many varieties/li liCherry Tomatos/li liStringless Beans/li liPumpkin (growing in the old compost heap of all places)/li liCapsisum/li liEggplants/li /ul pSo really can't complain :)/p
Sunset Over Dapto

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 4:53am CET by James Purser

p class=rteleftOccasionally we get some beautiful sunsets down here and I manage to get a couple of pics off. /p p class=rtelefta href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamespurser/3018285272/ target=_blankimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/3018285272_986e74381a.jpg?v=0 alt=Sunset Over Dapto style=width: 248px; height: 186px; //anbsp;nbsp; img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/3017440723_2582946faa.jpg?v=0 style=width: 249px; height: 186px; //p
Turning Weeds Into Usefulness

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 2:20am CET by James Purser

pAs I continue on this gardening kick I've been looking at exploring the whole fertiliser concept. While I think I've got the compost concept down I haven't turned my hand to creating organic fertilisers yet./p pSo the other day I decided to try and make some liquid green manure. For those of you who don't know what a green manure is, essentially it's a plant that you either grow or harvest purely for the purpose of composting. It can be anything from a bed of comfrey (which I'm told makes an excellent green manure) or any non seeding weeds you find./p pThe idea behind the liquid green manure fertiliser is to in essence speed up the process of breaking down the green manure and getting at the nutrients contained within. The process is pretty simple. Take a bucket, fill it most of the way up with green manure and then fill it the rest of the way with water. Place a lid over the bucket and then leave it. Stir every couple of days over the next few weeks./p pBy the end of the process you should have a mass of vegetable matter at the bottom of the bucket and a green liquid that smells something chronic. You can then take that liquid, water it down (a ratio of 1:3 is recommended according to what I've read) and apply it to the stems and roots of your plants. Don't water it directly onto plants with edible leaves, just around the base should do just as well./p
Open Source On The Air - 2008-11-07

Posted: November 8th, 2008, 10:45pm CET by James Purser

pWe return for a target=_blank href=http://osota.fosscasts.org/show_blag/OSOTA_2008-11-07another episode/a!br / This time round Karin sits down with Peter Garret to chat about the Inx LiveCD project.br / I get to catch up with Arjen Lentz about a target=_blank title=OurDelta href=http://ourdelta.org/OurDelta/a, a new MySQL Distro/p

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