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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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- Hmm. RT @VictoriaPolice I lost weight without having to make any major diet changes while boosting energy levels, heres how: [spam redacted] about 11 hours ago from web ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Copyrightable APIs, yes, that's just what we need to spur software innovation. #sarcasm #incaseyoumissedit http://t.co/DtE3g2Yu @MsLods 09:28:29 PM May 07, 2012 from Twitter for Android ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @loupardi Std. technique to pass opinion as news is to favour quotes that convey your views and use subtle language bias. Would flags help? 04:59:58 AM May 06, 2012 from web in reply to loupardi ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @SamStreetr You can borrow mine if you like. It's not high-end by any means, but unlike the $25 ones, you can get it more or less in tune. 08:26:24 AM May 05, 2012 from web in reply to SamStreetr ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @SamStreetr Yes. #poll #becausejoyfulness 08:17:35 AM May 05, 2012 from web in reply to SamStreetr 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.
