Archive for the ‘life’ Category

Happy 20th Birthday

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

From: Geoff Huston Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 6:27 PM Subject: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet On the night of the 23rd June 1989 Robert Elz of the University of Melbourne and Torben Neilsen of the University of Hawaii completed the connection work that bought the Internet to Australia. It ...

scraping away

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

My Blog's been scraped again, this time by a site called "TryNewSh*t" who claim to "..help readers find new blogs and we help bloggers expand their audience.". yay.

Going away to a dark place..

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A few people have commented on how quiet my blog has been over the last few months, and it's mainly been related to the direction my contract took for a period of time. My current contract is orientated towards producing solutions primarily with open source products. Wireless redirectors based around squid, ...

Vale John Greenham

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Erin's stepfather passed away on the 14th March, after a long battle with stomach Cancer. This was his third relapse of the disease, and even though he fought it with the same vigour and testicular fortitude that he had the previous times, this was to be his last. Right up ...

nothing says “kick in the teeth” like..

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Spent today catching up on bits and pieces that needed to be done before we headed back up to Gosford for the funeral. One of those was catching up with mail that came in while we away. As I mentioned yesterday, there was some Registered post items that needed to ...

christmas was cancelled

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Things have been a bit rough here at casa de Walsh for the last few weeks. In early October my mother rang me to let me know that she'd been in hospital for tests, and that there were some lumps on the liver and the left lung that had her ...

Urk..

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

127 Boxes, a house and a half of furniture, and 10-ton truck filled floor to ceiling later and our furniture is now in storage in Melbourne. All that's left is a flight home, emptying the garage into a skip (which some nice neighbours have already half filled for us, albeit ...

That Scottish play and Cacti’s

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Erin and I went to see the Australian remake of Macbeth on Saturday, courtesy of our ACTEW/AGL provided Privileges card. This gives us student ticket prices on any night except tuesday, when it's cheap tix night anyway. Overall, the move was pretty good. The biggest mind bending part of the night ...

Cue Tumbleweeds

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Sorry for the major lack of air time since mid January, I've had one or two things on my plate. I normally do the Stage/Venue/Festival Tech work for the National Multicultural Festival (which was one of the things that put a major crimp in me actually attending LCA this ...

I know pizza’s are crap, but…

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Seeing as none of us could be arsed to cook, we declared last night take away night. Headed down to the local Dominos where they can't seem to read the STAFF on my (old) University ID, and therefore always give us Student price, and pickup the goods. Get home, first bite ...