Archive for February, 2006

Grampians panorama

Friday, February 24th, 2006

This one is from the heart of the fire – Mount Lubra is one of the peaks in the background, the rock formation in the foreground is The Cathedral.
For an idea of what this used to look like, check out here
Two copies – click the image below for one scaled down to a reasonable size [...]

Linux Laptop Procrastination

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

In the gaps between some manic work and proposal-writing, I’ve been researching options for my next laptop – some details are at KornyLaptopQuest though as usual, that page is a bit out of date – it’s really narrowed down to either the Asus w3j (which is still largely vapourware) or the Sony sz-160, depending on [...]

Hall’s Gap

Monday, February 20th, 2006

We spent the weekend at Hall’s Gap, helping my mum clean up (and generally providing company).
The Grampians are not as bad as we might have feared, but still pretty bad – there has been a huge amount of destruction, and it got scarily close to Mum’s place (and she knows several people who lost their [...]

Dunmovin’

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Well, I think we’re basically out – we got to bed at 1am this morning, having finally moved the last bits of gunk, cleaned out the carport, etc., etc. – all that is left is stuff in the sheds and under the house, and a trivial amount of stuff inside the house.
And, we are on [...]

Panic Attacks

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

And just for more fun – I’ve had to calm down an irate painter who went to Elmwood to start work today, and found the whole job was “far more than expected” and “I can’t do it” and the like. Sigh.
I managed to calm him down and talk him around and get him back to [...]