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I'm a software designer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. I also take photos and talk a lot of nonsense.-
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- Un-circle. http://t.co/j3qbwo8M 12:24:27 PM January 24, 2012 from web ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @drzax @PacketNetworks One thing people like about custom ROMs is you can get the Google Android UI, not your manufacturer's custom one. 05:33:34 AM January 19, 2012 from web in reply to drzax ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @PacketNetworks @drzax Cyanogen 9 is the effort to package Android 4.0. The current stable release is 7.1, which is Android 2.3.7. 05:28:15 AM January 19, 2012 from web in reply to PacketNetworks ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @PacketNetworks @drzax Stability-wise you might find that a reputable ROM like Cyanogen is better than some carrier ROMs. 05:26:04 AM January 19, 2012 from web in reply to PacketNetworks ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @drzax @PacketNetworks I've not done it (carrier provides a 2.3.6 ROM there's nothing in much 2.3.7 and no reputable 4.0 ROMs out there yet) 05:24:51 AM January 19, 2012 from web in reply to drzax ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Baba Ghanoush and Hummus
Let’s stick with the food theme from my last post and get into some serious dips: specifically, the Middle Eastern classics baba ghanoush and hummus. Middle Eastern food tends to be strongly flavoured and able to be served as finger-food. … Continue reading
Bread and Circuses
Sorry, the title is misleading, there’s nothing here about circuses – I’m crazy for good bread (okay, I’m crazy for good circuses too, but that will have to wait). So lets talk about bread, bread machines, and my bread recipe. … Continue reading
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My Grandfather’s Data
The urge to preserve the recorded artefacts from our ancestors is basic – the stories we tell to keep their memories alive are so much more vibrant, and more easily recalled and re-told when they’re anchored to a photo, a … Continue reading
Haiku composed for the woman ahead of me, boarding the train at Richmond station
From time to time everyone who regularly uses a metropolitan train system probably wonders if theirs is the worst the world has ever seen. Melbournians may not be any more justified in this than anyone else, but now at-least we … Continue reading
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Enhancing highlight-areas in digital photos
This is a technique I use to eliminate the colour-banding that often occurs around highlights in digital photos. It requires that you are shooting RAW files, rather than JPEGs. Continue reading
Let’s pretend we’re adults
Can we all agree, from this point forward, never to use the phrase “the f-bomb” (or any variant where the f is replaced with a c, or an s, or any other letter you care to mention)? I should point … Continue reading
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Regarding Clive Hamilton’s Views on Censorship
It is difficult to know where to begin to respond Clive Hamilton’s piece for Crikey concerning Internet censorship. It is perhaps one of the more considered articles supporting the Australian government’s filter plan, yet it falls so short of actually … Continue reading
Push the Tempo
You’ve got a 50 minute commute to work and a 75 minute podcast to listen to. What do you do? You could stop two thirds of the way through and listen to the rest on the trip home, but that … Continue reading
Mobile Blogging
Through the wonders of technology I can take bad photos of inane crap and post them along with boring text straight to the Internet for all to see.