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I’ve been playing with GTKmm, writing some code to see how to do GUI apps in GTKmm and see how easy it is. Its not too bad, there are some gotchas. This is what I’ve learned so far. I’ll post it as a kind of a tutorial, maybe it will help someone else. Firstly, I’d like [...]

I was remarking to a friend the other night that the media industry needs to move to a subscription model if they want to survive. Ars has posted an interesting article about such a possibility. Go read it.

I’ve been tracking the Minefield build of Firefox 3 for the past few months. As each beta would come out, I’d download it, try it for a few days and then go back to Safari. Main reasons? The native controls work wasn’t finished, and it looked like a frankenstein monster. (Not that I have anything against [...]

While working on a dying solaris 8 box that probably hasn’t had a decent amount of maintenance done to it in, ooh, maybe 6 years, it occurred to me that in most companies you’ll generally find that the oldest, shittiest, cruftiest box also happens to be the companies most critical important machine. In fact usually you’ll [...]

I know I keep going on and on about my diet, but I really must record this for posterity. Today, I reached the under 120kg milestone: This is huge for me; this brings me back to about 5 years ago weight wise. I’ll be working just as hard over the next 5-6 months and try to [...]

There have been a few posts on Digg which depressed me of late, regarding obese people and methods used to lose weight. The most depressing sentiments I read were the following: if you cant have the restraint to eat healthy and exercise doesnt that say a lot about the kind of person you are and: … Just watch [...]

Bought Ace Combat 6 on the weekend, a fun arcade style jet simulator shooter. Incredibly fun. The missions are hard without being TOO hard, though I am currently stuck at a mission where you need to fly through tunnels (er, what?!).

So, I restarted my diet. And I’m going to publicly embaress myself in front of the world in order to provide some incentive. I’ve been doing this for about 12 days, the restricted diet is working quite well but requires an awful lot of water. Its probably not the healthiest way of losing weight but it [...]

In an earlier post I talked how the console war would be won or lost in Japan. Well, according to a report posted at gamesindustry.biz, the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 last week due to the release of Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. Holy cow. It’s just one week’s worth of sales, but still thats [...]

One of our Acer AL2416Ws died on the weekend (oh noes, the magic smoke!) and I ordered a new one from http://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/ … this was all fine and they delivered very quickly. The only gripe I had (and I mentioned this in my feedback) was that the delivery company was rude and was very reluctant to [...]