2016/02/07

Sweet setup (2016 edition)

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No photo, because I can't be bothered tidying my desk. I've finally completed my piecemeal upgrade of my work iMac (late 2013 model...
2015/12/31

2015 ends. Time to breathe.

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This year moved too quickly to keep track of things as we went. Let's see; all in the middle of the busiest year as a lecturer I've...
2015/12/18

Movies on Netflix Australia

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I recently signed up for Netflix Australia. It's great for watching recent US TV shows, especially Netflix-produced ones such as Daredev...
2015/01/19

‘The sleep loss epidemic: hunting ninjas in the dark’

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Entertaining editorial in the Journal of Sleep Research by Nathaniel S. Marshall: There is a pervasive feeling in our scientific commun...
2014/08/29

The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand

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‘ Solitude did increase my perception. But here's the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity...
2014/08/20

Icy water

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‘ I also find that somehow, the way I'm built, the hardest part of my job is simply to shift from one task to the next. The new task is...
2014/08/14

Illumination

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‘ I’m trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan...
2014/05/26

Word still a pain in the ass

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I'm going to ignore the stupidity of telling me the name of the file and then saying the problem might (but only might) be related t...
2014/05/17

Open Finder window from Terminal directory; a better way

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In Mac OS X's Terminal app, it's quite common (for me at least) to be working away in a directory and want to then view that folder...
2014/05/16

‘Sleep problems: predictor or outcome of media use among emerging adults at university?’

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An interesting article just published  in the Journal of Sleep Research tracked around 1000 university students for three years to establis...
2014/04/21

Three years of shadow yoga

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Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend two back-to-back yoga workshops by Emma Balnaves and Shandor Remete. I started writing u...
2013/07/17

Mark Pilgrim's ‘The pursuit of happiness’

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Mark Pilgrim had a blog (among many other things) which no longer exists. Because it's of particular interest to me, I'd like to quo...
2013/06/28

Problem with technology

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Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk : The problem with music and technology right now is that there’s this utopian idea that technology is goin...
2013/03/10

Sleepiness predicted by lack of sleep

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In what I hesitate to describe as a surprising outcome, a recent paper in Sleep Research says: It was concluded that the main determinan...

Life is pain

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I'm somewhat of a stranger to hardship. A few years ago, I was rather affected by the suicide of David Foster Wallace. His writing ha...
2012/12/15

An open letter to The New Yorker's international gift subscription complaints department

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Hi, Couple problems. I tried to gift my brother a New Yorker subscription just now: https://subscribe.newyorker.com/subscribe/newyorke...
2012/07/01

Adobe keming

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From the company that brought you InDesign, arguably the world's best software for typography: ‘Play er’ is clearly the highlight.
2012/06/26

Academic dress

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The Thesis Whisperer has a series of articles (well, two at time of writing) on what to wear as an academic. It reminded me that I wanted t...
2012/03/10

Thoughts on “The monk and the philosopher”

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“The monk and the philosopher” (1998) is a unique book. It contains a number of presumably-edited ‘dialogues’ between father and son Jean-F...
2012/02/23

A weekend of Nrtta Sadhana

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Last weekend I spent three mornings at an introductory workshop for Nrtta Sadhana with Emma Balnaves. Nrtta (pronounced sort of like nritt...
2011/11/25

Adobe Reader in 2011

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I know it's cruel to mock, but: Is there much worse of an error than flat-out refusing to save a document that has changes you'd ...
2011/11/22

Eight months of Shadow Yoga

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This is a long rambling story about me and yoga. Primarily written so I can reflect back on it when I'm older, I suppose. Feel free to p...
2011/06/02

Quick numbers on renewables & nuclear

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I'm in favour of Ben Heard's plan to start phasing out the smaller and dirtier power plants in SA with nuclear options while simult...
2011/04/26

PhD rationale

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The best explanation behind the appeal of a PhD, to me, is expressed in a comment on an Ars Technica story: Someone - an eccentric billiona...
2011/03/20

Considering a Mac Pro

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I'm earning a little bit of money at the moment, and I've convinced myself that it's time to buy my first ever desktop. Largely ...
2011/02/15

Gross National Happiness

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I'd just like to make you aware of the idea, if it's not already familiar to you, of maximising ‘Gross National Happiness’ as a way ...
2011/02/14

Roast pumpkin pea soup with peas

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This my favourite meal for maximum taste/cost ratio. You need Split green peas (2 cups) Pumpkin or sweet potato (around 300g) Frozen peas (c...

Those pesky kids at Google

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John Gruber linked to a report that Microsoft has recently paid billions of dollars to Nokia to have its OS in their upcoming phones. Goog...
2011/02/13

iPad New Yorker app

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The New Yorker app for iPad is probably my favourite experience on the iPad. The interface for the magazine works really well and perfectly ...

Community memory

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Regan Forrest has a recap on our post-colonial tendency in Australia to lose track of our community history. Good stuff. It does boggle the...