Thanks to a comment or two in my flickr stream and a few google searches, I still think it’s the flash tube that’s dead on dear old Flash B. For those that asked, the series of events that took place on the night where everyone had an alibi but me was – The SB600 crashed(click to read the full post)
If you’ll be so kind as to notice up there top there, on the left, there’s two new links. An about page which has been about two months overdue, and a photo gallery. This has basically tripled the funtastic things you can do on the site now. First there was reading blog posts, now reading(click to read the full post)
The short story is that my second SB600 dropped from about 1.5 metres on the end of a lightstand and now won’t fire. The slightly longer story is that I’m fairly pissed off at myself for letting go of the light stand when it wasn’t properly balanced. Oh well. Live and learn and such. Google(click to read the full post)
Liz and I installed Ubuntu on her old Dell Laptop and I must say, I’m impressed by the ease of installation and usability. Given that my only experience with Linux was taunting my brother’s Slackware installs and one brief adventure using Red Hat on my own pc, yeah, it was nice to see how far(click to read the full post)
Happy Train Day! It’s been a whole year since I picked up the tiny, tiny Train with Jarod. When I first met her she had just face planted her entire body into her food, so was a little mess, but crawled all over my shoulders, and looked at me with her adorable kitty eyes. That(click to read the full post)
I’m at home sick today, so what better way to spend my waking hours than on the internet. Of the variety of things I looked up, one of which was the place we are currently living. I’ve been here for a year and a bit now (Jarod only for about 9 months), and keep meaning(click to read the full post)
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service are advertising current blood stock as being ‘dangerously low’. That generally doesn’t indicate something good. So, you should go give blood and stuff. 21,000 blood donations are required each week to keep the blood banks at a good level. And considering red cells only have a shelf life of(click to read the full post)