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Melbourne’s Spring weather is always unpredictable, rarely staying stable for more than an hour or two. Today was no exception. Wind and rain direct from Antarctica, combined with the odd burst of glorious sunshine, led to difficulties in deciding whether it was an indoor or an outdoor day.
In other words, a perfect day for [...]

Those of us who think Dick Cheney has achieved a unique and frightening combination of power and evilness (largely through selecting himself when charged with finding a vice presidential candidate for George Bush) can take heart from one thing.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, every government administration he has been involved with has failed to win [...]

From Philip Greenspun’s webblog:

P.S. Your blog’s comments section continues to amaze. It’s like some kind of zoo, but with idiots instead of exotic animals.

Labor will pave the road to hell with good intentions, and Liberals will be right there, looking for the construction contract.

Diane and statues in Toronto

Elk crossing sign near Calgary

Mountains viewed from the trans-Canada highway

Mountains near Banff

Mount Trafalgar, West Kimberley region, Western Australia
French environmentalist and photographer, Yann Arthus-Betrand, spent a large part of 1995 somewhere between five and two thousand metres above the ground. The result was a spectacular inventory and scientific study of the Earth, and led to the publishing of La Terre vue du ciel (The Earth [...]

Browsing through Apple’s Developer Connection site, I stumbled across a very comprehensive guide to OS X shortcuts.
From Command-Space Bar through to Control–Right Arrow, they’re all listed here.

Well not really, I believe the picture comes from Finland.

A few too many beers on Friday night left me completely lacking motivation for any serious work the next day. Instead, I spent a hungover day scanning and Photoshopping my photos from a trip to Sweden and the Baltic States during July / August 2000.

Sweden and Baltic States gallery.

NAME
watchdog - Mac OS X Server service monitoring daemon

SYNOPSIS
watchdog [-d | -n | -x] [-r] [-f file]
watchdog [-h | -v]

DESCRIPTION
watchdog is an (AT&T) init-like process that launches,
monitors, and relaunches critical services when they
terminate. watchdog improves reliability of the system
by [...]