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Monday, August 15. 2011Site Migration In Progress
Please brace for a slightly bumpy ride as I migrate my sites on to a linode. It's been fine thus far however there will no doubt be obscure things which don't work for a while.
Edit: I think that's all done. Please let me know if you see anything more broken than usual. Tuesday, May 4. 2010Europe 2002-3 Blog Fixed
The link over to the left goes to the almost-daily blog and pictures we kept during our Europe 2002-3 trip. When I moved webhosts I neglected to quality check it and have only just fixed a few little issues which were stopping the blog from working.
Also, the "Time Machine" which provides a quick link to a certain number of years ago today is fixed so that we can re-live our trip each day, but in a much cheaper fashion. This is all custom code and today (or even when we went again for our Honeymoon in 2006) I'd do it quite differently, using flickr and/or one of the many online travel blogging services which did not exist in any form in 2002.
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Saturday, March 13. 2010Land UpdateWe're spending a reasonably amount of time just mowing our block of land, and the associated bills with no real benefit are driving us to focus on saving to move on there! The first structure went up some time ago - I built a compost bin! Compost is rather difficult to move between properties, so our previous two have been left with a nice supply thanks to all our kitchen waste. There wasn't much point doing that again, so a bit of research and time later, and our land was no longer 5 empty acres. We've cleared some of the fallen trees and turned it into firewood, discovering our local wildlife in the process. Not long after we purchased the block, there was of course the question of how to tend so much grass. The answer was served up courtesy of an eBay-ed large commercial ride-on mower (diesel to run on 100% biodiesel, of course!) which we collected from the Hunter Valley thanks to the impressive grunt of the VW and a trailer we decided to buy to do the move ourselves. Both of these have proved great investments, even with a bit of repair work we needed to do to the mower. Starting this coming week our fencing starts to go up. The neighbor we are sharing the fence with unfortunately started the relationship off on a less-than-optimal note by reneging on a deal we had, however this is hopefully behind us now. The neighbor on the other side is a far different story - it turns out I used to work with him back at Strathfield Car Radios 13 years ago! One of those real small-world stories, and enough to completely overpower the let-down of the other neighbour. He fenced his block with the help of his father who lives around the corner, running an olive farm. This means he can borrow farming equipment as needed, although yesterday he had broken his slasher. The fact that he was slashing at given he has sheep on there shows just how much the recent rain has made the grass grow. Our block has sure taken some mowing in recent times! For the fencing we have to clear out a section of odd fenced garden that is mostly in our property but goes into the block next door which we want to separate ourselves from with the fence, this is tomorrow's task. The back fence is somewhat intact so we've asked the fencer to keep what he can to help keep our costs down, and I spent some time clearing away the blackberries and other overgrowth from the farm behind us with another new piece of gardening equipment we're going to need - a petrol whipper-snipper (using our electric one when the nearest power point we own is 3-4km away was proving a little difficult). We have decided for reasons of cost not to fence the front for now, instead waiting for a final decision on where our driveway is to go (there's a drainage ditch which if we are careful we can drive across but this won't work in the long-term for delivery trucks, etc.) Once that is done, we're pretty much done with the first phase of our project - get land and boundaries established. After that, the next phase begins - Services - where we get power, sewerage, water, hot water and phone available on the block in preparation for the following phase. This will be when we put up the barn with kitchenette, bathroom, heating, etc., then back in the caravan we purchased as cheap bedrooms and kitchen that we can sell later (currently sitting outside our rental property), and move onto our land! Current hopeful plan has us there in spring, after the new baby comes along. We could be there far earlier but have to pace our spending according to our earnings. I have a flickr set called Build on Razorback where I'm putting pictures of the process, and am also working on a more specific website to showcase our crazy plans as they evolve.
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Wednesday, October 8. 2008Everywhere
The house is now routinely in chaos when I return home from work, as Phoebe is crawling everywhere rapidly, and can climb to stand on most objects.
For a while there I was joking that at least she hadn't tried to use my leg hairs for this purpose. And then she did. I joke about this no longer. She seems to have decided that food isn't the root of all evil and will eat many things at her own pace, far more often. We're still hesitant to call it a meal, because it's far from the recommended amount, but it is a significant improvement on even a couple of weeks ago. Sadly, the sleep issues continue. There are clear improvements at times, but almost every night there's still a period of many hours where she just doesn't want to sleep. We're booked into Tresillian again next month so if she doesn't keep improving on her own then we'll all get a bit of a helping hand. There are always more pictures being uploaded, and there is plenty more stuff I want to blog about but I just keep forgetting it! Perhaps I need to get the mobile blogging client working so all that time I'm on a packed train when these things come to my head I can be writing them instead. Tuesday, August 19. 2008Changed Webhost
Found a significantly better webhosting deal at Hawk Host so decided to jump ship from my crusty old one which has been patchy over the years.
Sorry for the rough ride, there's more to fix yet too. Saturday, December 15. 2007Will trade money for sleep
But I don't think you can do that.
Actually, to be honest, it's getting better. Partially because Liz isn't waking me up during the night, she's just doing baby things by herself. This is nice of her, but not really fair, and I'm trying to get her to involve me more, but at the end of the day, since there is no feeding schedule yet, it's highly likely that Phoebe will need a feed anyway, so Liz will be involved eventually. We had a bit of a scare last week with both of the girls going back to hospital for a couple of minor complications, but they seem to be mostly working themselves out. Our gut instinct that the local doctor's advice was rubbish proved well-founded after speaking to the hospital's top paediatrician. Still going well with the cloth nappies, especially so since we got our new washing machine. And dishwasher, and big TV. Yes, we aren't supposed to be able to afford such things with a new bub and me off work, but that's the magic of 12 months interest free, and some times you just have to get things at the right time. I've re-jigged Phoebe's homepage to point straight to the photos for now - less hassle for me to manage when we're between other things. Photos continue to appear there as we add them!
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Monday, April 9. 2007Belated Bulgaria Blogging
Well, it's belated no more. OK, yes, it's still rather late.
Anyway, check out the Bulgaria category for the latest installment. Edit: Pictures now online also! Thursday, March 8. 2007Europe 2006 Page Tidy-Up
I've just done a very long-overdue page tidy up on the Europe 2006 page. It's also linked over there on the left.
The previous version was last updated when we were in Paris, so it was a little inaccurate. There's now a link to the photos and links to each of the sections we have blogged about. My current goal is to have finished the blog entries no later than twelve months after they occurred. That means I'm right for another month or so but then have to get cracking to convert our notes into entries you might want to read. Up to and including Macedonia is currently completed. So much to do in life! Thursday, November 16. 2006Site Hacked
This is the second time this has happened - this time some stupid index.php defacement again.
Sorry for the break in service, I'm chasing it up with my webhost who are paid to make sure this doesn't happen... Edit: OK I think I've zapped them all now, please let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary. Tuesday, September 26. 2006Blog Feeds
If you access this blog using a RSS feed, please ensure you are using the latest - there is a link on the side of the main page.
Older feeds may still work but result in you only seeing the latest item or strange things like that. Saturday, August 5. 2006CSS broken, website ugly
Sorry about the uglyness here, my webhost has changed some settings and my CSS files don't appear to be being loaded anymore. I've fired off an email and hope to have it fixed soon.
Edit 9:35 7/8/2006: They temporarily moved me to a different server which seems to have fixed things. Hope it stays this way. Saturday, February 25. 2006Europe2006 stuff online!
OK, so I'm working this out slowly - if it takes me a while remember this is supposed to be my honeymoon :)
Photos are going to be available at this URL (go there and bookmark it if you like), or if you know what RSS means then you probably want to add this link to your RSS reader. Luckily the internet cafe right across from our hotel room has both wireless and wired connection for laptops - not sure how often we will find this while travelling outside of big cities. Sunday, January 15. 2006Pictures
Down a bit on the left are some pictures I upload now and then. Previously they were just static images, but I've changed over to the Flash version of the Flickr thumbnail viewer. This is because it shows much more than just the last three pictures I've uploaded, and in a way that grabs your attention a little more.
If you don't have a Flash plugin for your browser, this link may help you grab one. By the way, there's plenty more pictures in there now too. Just click on one and start browsing, or you can view them all. Tuesday, January 10. 2006Comments tightened up
The spammers seem to be hammering me with comment spam right now, so I've tightened the rules up a bit and require that annoying "type these letters into this box" thingy on each comment.
Sorry, I don't like it much either. Keep the (legitimate) comments coming! Saturday, September 3. 2005Flickr
I'm playing around with Flickr, an online photo-sharing site.
All of my photos are stored in iPhoto, and there's a great plugin you can load into it to give it the ability to upload photos to Flickr from right within iPhoto itself. So, it happens that about an hour after I had finished a gig with The Honeymakers today, I uploaded a couple of pictures and within five minutes other people somewhere had viewed them. You can find photos based on "tags", so for example I tagged these photos as "jazz", "music", "saxophone", etc. Anyone who searches for these keywords will find my photos, along with those of anyone else who has used the same tags. Also, if you scroll down this page and look on the left you'll see the latest three photos I have put up on Flickr, without having to leave this page. If you already track my RSS feed, you may also like to add this one, which will give you an entry every time I upload a photo.
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