And now, a bit of industry punditry if you’ll indulge me.
Virtualization is my new favourite shiny thing. I’m becoming more and more interested in the potential for virtual servers and virtual network infrastructure and virtual storage and whatever else. I’m convinced it will change the way that computers are used, first on the server and [...]
My SO came home this afternoon to a crowd of police outside our house. We’d been broken into. Again.
It happened while both of us were at work. The neighbour from two doors down came home and found a Lexus blocking his garage door. We live in a row of terrace houses with a rear lane [...]
By now most people who have had any dealings with a large institution will have been asked what their mother’s maiden name is.
The first time you encounter this, it makes you do a bit of a double-take and wonder how such information can be relevant to anyone. Look into it a bit further and you [...]
We are now in the home stretch and will soon arrive at the end of the Bush administration. Not a moment too soon.
In the last 6 or so years we have seen just so much insanity out of the white house that it is hard to keep track of. The horrendous Patriot Act almost seems [...]
One of the persistent memes in the Australian media is the notion of childhood obesity caused by poor diet and no exercise. It’s one of those self-evident truths that nevertheless causes much handwringing and below-the-neck stock footage on the evening broadcast.
Recently there was a report released by Access Economics which estimated the cost of obesity [...]
Amongst my family I am rapidly acquiring a reputation as The Explainer of Internet Mindreading Tricks.
The last time it was relatively simple. This time, not so much.
Try it yourself, excuse the advertising, and then read on for my explanation.
A recent post on OddThinking got me thinking oddly about puzzles, particularly their relevance to software engineering. Julian uses the example of some thinking which enabled him to solve a puzzle but which would not be appropriate for solving software engineering problems.
This topic came up on slashdot recently. The consensus seemed to be that the [...]
There’s a science fiction story I read as a kid, and I want to say that it’s Phillip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, but that may not be right. In this story, or one like it, I can remember being amused and confused at the decadent characters in the story who, as [...]
Hello, I’m Alastair Rankine.
Well, as revelations go, that’s hardly as exciting as Kiss appearing without makeup for the first time. But I have been expending some effort trying to maintain a degree of anonymity on girtby.net, and so it’s not an easy decision to open the kimono.
I described the original reason for anonymity was to [...]
This is recently arrived at Girtby Global Headquarters.
“Big deal,” you’re no doubt thinking. “A printer.”
But let me set the scene a little.
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