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It is JavaOne time again, and I arrived in San Francisco this morning. I’m finally getting used to the 13 hour flight from Sydney to SF. I don’t know if that is a good thing. It is going to be a busy year this year. Some highlights below. If you are in San Francisco note that [...]

Check out this sequence of images of a NASA shuttle being prepared for a mission. Space is still cool. (Via boing boing.)

FishEye and Clover won Jolt awards this year! FishEye in the “Change and Configuration Management” category and Clover in the “Testing Tools” category. They are “the Oscars of our industry” which — for better or for worse — is about right. But I still I have a fondness for the Jolt awards. The first time I [...]

Via the teaparty: 10:49:42 PM spud: it’s finally being pooped out http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html 10:52:58 PM michael: @spud: gentlemen, start your parentheses! 10:59:10 PM spud: “Arc only supports Ascii. I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that’s almost offensive … But the kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn’t like Arc anyway.” [...]

So I’m off to JavaPolis 07. If you — my trusted readers — are going to be there, drop me a line or pop in to the Atlassian booth and say hello.

Apparently, Wordpress is famous for its 5 minute install procedure, and claims upgrading Wordpress is even easiier. And to be fair, it is a reasonably straightforward three (four?) steps: Step 0: Before You Get Started: Backup and deactivate plugins. Step 1: Replace WordPress files: Extract the new tarball over your existing installation. With special notes about what files [...]

There used to be an SBS program that aired late Saturday nights called Eat Carpet (on wayback). It featured a handful of short films each week and was standard viewing for me for quite a few years after I finished Uni. I don’t know exactly when it was, but it was on Eat Carpet that I saw [...]

So, as I said 3 months ago, I’m now at Atlassian. I couldn’t imagine a workplace more compatible with the old Cenqua lifestyle. I mean, we had a DnD group up and running in the first few weeks! Atlassian has a rich and vibrant technical culture — the internal blogs are pure bliss. And there is [...]

Once again, I forgot to renew my DNS hosting this year, so apologies to any problems that caused. It’s not like my DNS hosting provider didn’t send me enough warning emails (actually they rock) — I just didn’t read them. This time I renewed for 5 years, so you won’t experience this problem again until late [...]

My parent is PZ Myers. 1) The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is… Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams. 2) The best romantic movie in historical fiction is… Erik the Viking. 3) The best nerd song in rock is… Code Monkey, by Jonathan Coulton. The Pharyngula mutating genre meme There are a set of [...]